The 1856 Cambridge Rules are claimed by some to have had an influence in the origins of Australian rules football.
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12 Facts About Cambridge rules
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The 1863 Cambridge Rules is said to have had a significant influence on the creation of the original Laws of the Game of the Football Association.
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The new rules were printed as the 'Cambridge Rules, ' copies were distributed and pasted up on Parker's Piece, and very satisfactorily they worked, for it is right to add that they were loyally kept, and I never heard of any public school man who gave up playing from not liking the rules.
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Malden's claim that the 1848 Cambridge rules worked "very satisfactorily" is doubted by Dunning and Sheard, on the grounds that a new set of Cambridge rules had to be created in 1856.
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The enclosed Cambridge rules seem to be the first attempt at combination, and from this point of view perhaps they led up to the Association Cambridge rules.
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Curry and Dunning suggest that "[t]he regularity with which new rules were issued at [Cambridge] indicates a probable lack of effectiveness in the 'laws'".
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Copy of the 1856 Cambridge Rules survives at Shrewsbury School: another copy, dated from 1857, was included by Sykes with his letter.
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The rules bear the signatures of ten footballers: two each from Eton, Rugby, Harrow, Shrewsbury, and the University of Cambridge.
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In October 1863, a new set of Cambridge rules was drawn up by a committee of nine players representing Shrewsbury, Eton, Rugby, Marlborough, Harrow, and Westminster schools.
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Publication of the 1863 Cambridge rules happened to coincide with the debates within the newly formed Football Association over its own first set of laws.
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Those Cambridge rules, so approved, were entitled to the greatest consideration and respect at the hands of the association, and they ought not to pass them over without giving them all the weight that the feeling of six of the public schools entitled them to.
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In 1869, the Cambridge rules club wrote to the FA to propose a match between the two bodies.
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