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agricultural society
The people in the agricultural society were lower class working people so the worked about 15 hour days so they didn't have time for training or even participating in any sport. There would have been a big diffrence in the upper and lower classes in sport and living conditions. sports would include: badger baiting, boxing, and mob football. -
pre industrial revoloution
In the pre industrial revoloution sport was more focused on the combat aspect so for example archery, shooting, sword fighting etc. this was mainly to get soldures ready for battle and was used as training. -
industrial revoloution
this is when lots of factories started opening in cities so there was lots of jobs which mad everyone move to the cities and baceaus it wasnt classed as lower class work they didnt have to work as long in a day, so they had time to start football and other sports and somne factories had their own football teams, so they would get off at 3 on a saturday because thats when they had football matches. -
webb elis is the founder of rugby
from a scource on the internet it said that william webb elis did not like taking part in playing football so instead he picked up the football and started running with it tucked under his arm and so formed the start of the first ever play of rugby -
public schools
public schools had a massive impact on sport today because public schools were originally made for the rich but over time the poorer people started going to them and eventually this lead to independant fee paying schools and within the schools diffrent sports started to be played like football, rugby, kricket, and tennis as the sports progressed in the schools -
public schools continued
they started making rules to help structure the way the games were being played, this eventually moulded the basics of the sports as we know them today. -
the first set of rules are written for rugby union
three senior pupils at Rugby School received instructions to codify the game of Football. Just three days later W.D. Arnold, W.W. Shirley and F. Hutchins submitted 37 Rules to the Sixth Levee; they were immediately passed and a Rule Book was printed they are much more basic than the ones we know of today but they formed the framework of the sport as we know it -
rationalisation and regulation
this is the introduction of leisure activities and facilities provided by philanthropic groups, they did this to keep young people fit and healthy and this was a method of keeping them from participating in unhealthy and potentially dangerous activities such as drinking, smoking and fighting -
IRFU is formed between the north section and the southern section
the northern section mainly consisted of belfast agreed to amalgimate with the southern section which comprised of mostly leinster and some of munster. they would form the irfu under these conditions.
(i) A Union to be known as the Irish Rugby Football Union was to be formed for the whole country.
(ii) Branches were to be formed in Leinster, Munster and Ulster.
(iii) The Union was to be run by a Council of eighteen, made up of six from each province -
influence of war on sport
the ifluence of war on sport was a big one because in WW1 all sport had to be stopped at an international level because of so many people of sporting age being recruited into the army and had died in the army. Also the olympic games of 1916 had to be cancelled due to the war.
