Introduction -- Public-school games and working-class football -- Elementary-school football in London to 1900 -- Consolidating elementary-school football in London, 1900-1915 -- London teachers and schoolboy football, 1900-1915 -- Schoolboy football and amateur football -- London schoolboys and professional football -- Conclusions.
Summary
This is a fascinating account of the origins of schoolboy football and the factors that have influenced its development and the consequences and benefits that have followed not only for school football but for sport in schools and communities as a.
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