Original sentence: Playing football has been a long tradition in England and football had probably been played at Rugby School for two hundred years before three boys published the first set of written rules in 1845
Edited sentence: Playing football has been a long tradition in the United Kingdom, with many primitive games played in towns and villages and in the open countryside.That game had several different categories of players, features approximating to scrums and lineouts, and a great stress upon handling and passing, rather than kicking.The game continued to be played in some areas into the 1900s.The game which has the best claim to be called "the forerunner of modern rugby" is the ancient game of cnapan which was widely played in West Wales in the late Middle Ages and which was described in detail by George Owen in 1603.Various forms of football had probably been played at Rugby School for two hundred years before three boys published the first set of written rules in 1845