How to play association football, etc

AUTHOR'S PREFACE
This book is primarily intended for the use of schools, and
therefore it should prove of service to all who are desirous of
learning to play Association Football.
While the author has endeavoured to set forth and illustrate
the principles and practice of the game with simplicity and
clearness, it has been his aim to treat the subject rigorously
and exhaustively, and he ventures to believe that even adult
players, who necessarily have considerable familiarity with
the theory and the rules, may find some suggestions worth
thinking about.
School-boys, for whom the explanations and diagrams of
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play
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were prepared, should have little difficulty in mastering
the principles and following the illustrations. .But they must
give their minds earnestly to the study-
of
the. game, and it
may safely be promised that both pleasure and profit will
attend their efforts.
To non-laying spectators also this book should appeal,
inasmuch as full and intelligent appreciation of "play", with,
as a consequence, genuinely keen pleasure in the game, comes
most readily to those who have an intimate knowledge of the
functions of the players and the lines on which "play" should
proceed.
A sketch of the history of Association Football, bringing in
the great names and institutions connected with the movement
of 1863, and tracing the momentous changes which, during
the past forty years, have taken place in the laws of the game,
the organization of teams, and-the command of public favour,