Between the Mob Football of medieval Europe and the the game of football that we know today, there was a rather turbulent period of codification.

Starting from the 14th Century, schools would play their own variation of football. These games would differ greatly from campus to campus; so much so that intercollegiate play was virtually impossible.

Eton College became the first school to write down a list of basic laws of the game in 1815, but Cambridge and Sheffield had the greatest impact on the moder