 As a result of the level of violence often seen in early Scottish football games, a lot of traditional ball games were modified or died out in the nineteenth century.Examples still exist today, however, of traditional Scottish football, in particular the Ba game (although many of these have been revived in the modern time).The earliest evidence of the use of codified rules of any type of football in Scotland came in 1851 when rugby football was adopted by the Edinburgh Academy, in order to be able to play with other schools.