Eboracum recognise that the Multangular Tower was Roman in date in a 1683 paper with the Royal Society. John Horsley's 1732 "Britannia Romana", or 'The Roman Antiquities of Britain', included a chapter on Roman York and at least partly informed Francis Drake's 1736 "Eboracum" – the first book of its kind on Roman York. Drake also published accounts in the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society. The Rev. Charles Wellbeloved was one of the founders of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and a curator of the antiquities in the Yorkshire Museum until his death in 1858. He published a systematic account of
English–Latin football rivalry to 1887, English and Latin had fielded a unified team. Until the late 1960s, the rivalry was fairly even. Since that time, Latin has dominated the series, leading all time 81–36–13, and winning 51 of the last 54 contests (1964-2018). Latin's dominance could be considered at its zenith in the 1970s when they held English to only 28 points for the entire decade. Ten of the games ended in scoreless ties, a rare feat in modern Football at any level, although the last instance of this came in 1945. The implementation of overtime has dramatically reduced the number of tie