Editing Regency era (section)

=== Football ===

[[File:The foot-ball play by Alexander Carse maybe 1830.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Football being played in Scotland, {{circa|1830}}]]
[[Football]] in Great Britain had long been a no-holds-barred pastime with an unlimited number of players on opposing teams which might comprise whole parishes or villages. The playing area was an undefined stretch of land between the two places. The [[ball (football)|ball]], as such, was often a pig's [[bladder]] that had been inflated and the object of the exercise was to move the ball by any means possible to a distant target such as a church in the opposing village. The contests were typically arranged to take place on feast days like [[Shrove Tuesday]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=Eric |title=Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation |url=https://archive.org/details/sportmatterssoci00dunn_562 |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |year=1999 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sportmatterssoci00dunn_562/page/n99 88–89] |isbn=978-0-415-09378-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=William |title=Sports in the Western World |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1988 |page=48 |isbn=978-0-252-06042-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkuAiv3LoR4C}}</ref> By the beginning of the 19th century, efforts were being made in the English [[public school (United Kingdom)|public school]]s to transform this [[mob football]] into an organised team sport. The earliest-known versions of football code rules were written at [[Eton College]] (1815) and [[Aldenham School]] (1825).<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of British Football |author=Cox, Richard William |author2=Russell, Dave |author3=Vamplew, Wray |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |page=243 |isbn=978-0-7146-5249-8}}</ref>