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the timeline of football

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  • Last meetings of The Gymnastic Society, the first football club in the world

    Last meetings of The Gymnastic Society, the first football club in the world

  • irst description of a pass comes from Suffolk

    First description of a pass comes from Suffolk.[11][12] In this Moor describes a team ball game with goals in which a player who can not advance further "throws the ball [he must in no case give it] to some less beleaguered friend more free and more in breath than himself". Although this description refers to throwing, Moor tells us that the game was at other times a football one: "Sometimes a large football was used; the game was then called 'kicking camp'."

  • First use of referee. During a match in Rochdale, between the Bodyguards club and the Fearnaught club

  • Notts County F.C., the oldest existing league club, established

  • Everton win their first league championship.