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In the Autumn of 1857, Frank Albert Mather, who had recently left Rugby School, wrote to his friend
Richard Sykes the Captain of Football at Rugby School inviting him to take part in a game of football in Liverpool and bring with him one of the balls in use at the school, made by Linden a Rugby
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bootmaker. The game was arranged for
Saturday 19 December 1857 on the Liverpool Cricket Ground at Edgehill. Fifty players arrived and they decided to play Rugby versus the World. Liverpool club was founded there and then.
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