Figure 1.--This team portrait is unidentified. We believe, however, that it is a team at an primary school, probably about 1970. Note the boys have green team (school) jersies (with crew and "V" necks), but play in their grey school shorts.

I'm not sure to what extent there were youth sooccer teams in Britain before World war II. Many private schools discouraged soccer in favor of rugby, but this was not the case in all private schools. We have little information about state primary schools before the War. We do note grammar school teams before the War. One example is the Ballham Grammar School during the 1920s. We note a variety of youth soccer teams after World War II. We are not sure in many cases if these are school teams or some kind of youth sports clubs. We know more private schools began fielding soccer teams. We also know that some state primary schools formed soccer teams. A British reader tells us that at his London primay school during the late 1960s, matches were organized with other schools gor the boys in their last year. At his school the boys wore shirts and socks in the school colors provided by th school. He does not recall much difference between fooitball and rugby shirts. There were also teams formed by sports clubs. The team portrait here is unidentified (figure 1). We believe, however, that it is a team at an primary school, probably about 1970. Note the boys have green team (school) jersies (with crew and "V" necks), but play in their grey school shorts.

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