In the mid-nineteenth century it began to become popular in many private schools in Britain playing a variant between football and rugby more sophisticated and less aggressive than the latter. Football was already known throughout the country (especially in rural areas) for decades, although it was practiced differently depending on the regions and local customs. Rugby had gained a lot of ground, but it found some sectors and clubs that did not like that more abrupt way of practicing the sport and they bet to create a regulation in which the game of the soccer was not based on hitting the rival for get control of the ball and both were differentiated. Back in 1848, representatives of several schools met at Trinity College, Cambridge, and tried to make a regulation that included a series of basic rules for the practice of that sport. Some of the rules allowed the start of the ball with your hands or kick the opponent. There was born the one known as the Cambridge regulation. But it was not until 1863, more specifically on the morning of October 26, in a tavern in London called Freemasons, when a meeting was held in which the Football Association (FA) was created. There were representatives of all associations that practiced the sport and all together were prepared to draft the first football regulations. From that first meeting came the fourteen first rules. They were meeting for two months (a total of five meetings), but they did not reach a full agreement with all the clubs, since Blackheath was opposed to not being allowed to grab the ball with their hands and kicks to an opposing player they were penalized. A short time later the representative of Blackheath was one of the founders of the English Rugby Federation. The original manuscript of the first football regulations of 1863 is preserved at the University of Oxford and published in a facsimile version in 2006.
