evidence of "scientific" football playing styles.

Background

The effect of rule changes on playing style

The change to the original offside rule enabled the gradual transition from a dribbling to a passing game, this opened the way to forward passing. A similar rule had originally been part of the earlier Cambridge rules.

On 7 November 1863, the Football Association adopted an offside rule from J. C. Thring's

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