EP 18: Anglo-American Football History Before 1850 (July 2022)

Host Tom McCabe is joined by Tom Langton for a discussion on Anglo-American football history before 1850.

Tom is the son of the accomplished British sports journalist and sports art and history aficionado Harry Langton (1929–2000) who established the world famous FIFA-Langton Collection, now owned by the National Football Museum Trust. Tom took over his family archives and company in 2013 as Langton Football Archives and has developed a new collection based on a range of traditional and modern themes that is used for exhibitions and displays. Tom is a biologist by profession and has particular interest in Football anthropology before 1800 and in Football Fine Art through the ages.

Tom discusses evidence of ball games across America, Europe and Asia and reflects on their relevance to the origins of Association Football or Soccer. Links between Europe (Britain especially) and North America from the late medieval period until the early 19th century are also discussed.

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNfQyC21OtY&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=18&t=2421s&pp=iAQB

For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/