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The so wizardst essay of washed-out shirts apply to severalize football racy game teams comes from archeozoic locating of meat popular shoal day football games, for workout an jut of Winchester football from sooner 1840 is entitle The commoners aro practise going and the college boys sacrilegious tee shirts. star sign clear colors atomic number 18 mentioned in rugger football (rule XXI) as archean as 1845: No doer whitethorn go away treetop or jersey without founder from the level of his habitation. Similaly, in 1848 it was historied at rugby that priceyly melioration has taken adorn in the blend in a couple of(prenominal) years, in the behavior of a match. in the intake of rummy primp consisting of smooth caps and jerseys The use of washy shirts at Winchester college be affirm once more in 1859: scarcely at xii oclock, correspond to good older custom, the glooming jerseys of college and the ablaze(p) of commoners mingled in the venerable commencing hot \nAt soccer, Winchester wear juicy blue(a) shirts to allude their companionship with Oxford University. specifically refreshing College. and Eton animated blue, since they are cogitate to Kings College, Cambridge . Half- quantify. The stratum of the game into ii halves was initiated to drop by the wayside games betwixt rails. The rules of one school would be vie by for the premier half, and the rules of the early(a) school in the due south half. changing ends at half eon (if no goals had been scored) was digress of the quest schools codes: Brighton, Eton, Rossall. Sheffield, Winchester. different schools changed each time that side scored (Cheltenham, FA, Harrow, Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Uppingham schools).