ABSTRACT
The final quarter of the nineteenth century saw both varieties of football create structures that would persist for well over a hundred years. In this chapter we survey the period in a broadly chronological fashion; it consists of five sections, each relating to a particular theme. The first section focuses on the growth of two types of framework that were devoted to organising football, clubs and associations. In the second section we consider the changes in the various law codes that governed football games and the impact that they had on the way the games were played. The third section is concerned with the substantial commercial growth that football enjoyed, while the fourth section focuses on the way professionals took over association football and the impact that this had. In the last section we view a parallel issue, the effect that professionals had on the rugby game and the split that this engendered within the supervisory organisation. We commence with the first section of the chapter, the growth of clubs and associations.
