A. TAKEN OVER B. REFORMED C. PUT AWAY B. REPLACEDTHE EARLY DAY OF...

46. a. taken over b. reformed c. put away b. replacedThe Early Day of FootballFootball became the game we know today during the reign of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. So many different ____(47)____ of the game were played in Britain at that time, that in the 1863 the Football Association was ___(48)___ in order to draw up and agree the __(49)___ of the game.Throughout the country new football ___(50)___ were built and the development of railways ____(51)____ that football teams and their ___(52)______ could travel to the matches. In 1888 The Football League was __(53)____ up with twelve clubs, and football became a national sport, __(54)____ to rugby by many people asthe more popular game of the __(55)___Sometimes people play the game in just a field. In one town, Burnley, in the north of England, the field had a river ___(56)____ along side of it in which players ______(57)___ baths after matches. People stood on banks ____(58)____ from earth and it was not until the early 1990s that __(59)___ stands were built. The players would have had two wooden ___(60)___for the goals with tapes across the top instead of the cross bar, and nets were not ___(61)___ until 1891.