On the third day terms of capitulation, usually in Latin verse, were signed, and these always conceded the immediate right to indulge in football and a cockfight.
Private schools ("public schools" in England and Wales), mainly attended by boys from the more affluent upper, upper-middle and professional classes, are widely credited with three key achievements in the creation of modern codes of football.
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Geoffrey Blainey, Leonie Sandercock, Ian Turner and Sean Fagan have all written in support for the theory that the primary influence on the game was rugby football and other other games emanating from English public schools.