In Football Cambridge United F.C. have never made a huge impact on the football tables,  except in 1990 when the reached the brink of promotion to the new premier league. However, Cambridge has a larger part to play in the history of football. In 1848 members of the university drew up the games first set of rules, these were first played on Parker’s Piece (the green common in the centre of Cambridge) and had a significant influence on the Football association rules of 1863.