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Mark Ferguson's avatar

I’m assuming that first example was club football since it predates Arkansas-Little Rock and existing high school was called the Peabody School.

It’s fascinating to me that club athletics fizzled in the US in favor of college and high school teams but blossomed in the UK and on the continent.

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Football Archaeology's avatar

Correct, those were two club teams. Some of the club versus university issue is covered in the recent podcast with Tony Collins. See the link below if you have not listened to it previously.

https://www.footballarchaeology.com/p/tony-collins-the-emergence-of-rugby

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