Buenos Aires Football Club

[3][4][1] The club was established by a group of railway workers[5] and during its existence, it repeatedly switched from association to rugby football codes.

Most of them had established there coming from the United Kingdom as managers and workers of the British-owned railway lines that operated in Argentina.

The kick at the Boca never came off owing to the floods in the Potreros (sic).Due to poor weather conditions, the game was cancelled, being postponed for June 20, when finally the first match in Argentine football history was contested.

[8] Seven months after the birth of BAFC, Thomas Hogg wrote a letter to The Standard newspaper, in which he stated: In my opinion, this game will take a long time to spread even among British residents, but I intend to persist, because I consider it the best, easiest and cheapest pastime for middle-class youth, as well as for the common people.

The game was held in the Buenos Aires Cricket Club Ground where "Banks" and "Town" played with a mix of football association and rugby union rules.

Therefore the members of BAFC played the game as they did in the towns of their birth, being a mix of football and rugby with no defined rules.

That same day the first game under the rugby rules was played at David Mathven's country house, in Caballito, Buenos Aires.