{"id":640,"date":"2014-01-14T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/?p=640"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:46:05","slug":"figueroa-tifo-evolution-of-football-laws-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/2014\/01\/14\/figueroa-tifo-evolution-of-football-laws-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Figueroa TIFO: Evolution of Football Laws (Rules)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2012 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">IJHS<\/span> article <em><a title=\"Who Invented Football in England?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09523367.2012.669753#.UtU-t3nmk7U\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On Bosworth Field or the Playing Fields of Eton and Rugby? Who Really Invented Modern Football?,&#8221;<\/a> <\/em>by Peter Swain and Adrian Harvey shows,<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0in the early years of the game rules had not been standardized across Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_402\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/files\/2014\/01\/Sheffield_FC_1890-source-wikipedia-commons-edited.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-402\" alt=\"Sheffield (England) Football Club, 1890s (Source: Wikipedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/files\/2014\/01\/Sheffield_FC_1890-source-wikipedia-commons-edited-300x184.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/files\/2014\/01\/Sheffield_FC_1890-source-wikipedia-commons-edited-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/files\/2014\/01\/Sheffield_FC_1890-source-wikipedia-commons-edited-624x383.png 624w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/files\/2014\/01\/Sheffield_FC_1890-source-wikipedia-commons-edited.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheffield (England) Football Club, 1890s [Source: Wikipedia Commons]<\/p><\/div>A question that came up was how the rules (traditionally called &#8220;laws&#8221;) have evolved.<\/p>\n<p>This article at the FIFA website gives you a quick summary of their evolution since the middle of the 19th century: <strong><a title=\"Evolution of Football Laws (Rules)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/classicfootball\/history\/the-laws\/from-1863-to-present.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Laws: From 1863 to the Present Day, at FIFA Classic.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2012 IJHS article &#8220;On Bosworth Field or the Playing Fields of Eton and Rugby? Who Really Invented Modern Football?,&#8221; by Peter Swain and Adrian Harvey shows,\u00a0in the early years of the game rules had not been standardized across Britain. A question that came up was how the rules (traditionally called &#8220;laws&#8221;) have evolved. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}