User:Grover cleveland/History of the laws of the game/Sheffield/1860

Evidence of use of rouges: December 1860:

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000355/18601223/031/0006 (BLL)

Annual meeting (no changes to rules noted):

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000250/18601010/041/0002

Murphy From Sheffield with Love (2007) 46: "It was not till 1860 that the new Law 8 was changed to 'Holding the ball (except in the case of a free kick) or knocking or pushing it on is altogether disallowed". No source cited. 1862 laws include "pushing it on with the hand or arm".

Martines Play the Game, (2016) p. 225 has the same quotation, without "with the hand of arm") as Wikipedia, and  situates the meeting on 31 January 1860, something lacking from Murphy.

Can find no other source for this change occurring in 1860 rather than 1862.

President: F. Ward (re-elected)

Vice-Presidents: T. A. Sorby, M. J. Ellison (re-elected)

Secretary: N. Creswick