Show maje made now new football game cam the introduction of the carrying feature into football Is attributed upon a memorial tablet at rugby to a schoolboy named william webb ellis nho in the closing minute of a drawn game agn me lo in the autumn of 1823 with a hue fine disregard tor for the rules of fo football othall as played in his time first took the ball to his arms and ran with it thus originating the distinctive feature 0 of f th tha a rugby gilm game e I 1 in the forty ye years a ra that followed many clubs sprang up throughout england some playing the kicking and others tile the carrying game but all handicapped by a lack of uniform rules |