Different forms of football have existed for centuries.
Rugby football soon became one of the most significant sports in the promotion 🫰 of English and, later, British imperial manliness.
Part of the schoolboy's training was a commitment to arduous physical activity, and, by 🫰 the late 19th century, rugby and cricket had become the leading sports that developed the "civilized" manly behaviour of the 🫰 elite.
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By this time, hacking had largely disappeared from club rugby, though it remained a part of the 🫰 game's "character building" qualities at Rugby School.