The present paper is a continuation of the article entitled ‘Selections from the world of domestic sport in the early 20th century’, published in Belügyi Szemle, in which I described how and why the sporting opportunities of the professional police staff were developed, and the historical background of this progress. The paper also includes selections from the history of football, with a Hungarian and international dimension, as well as regulatory standards for the safe management of sporting events in the first half of the 20th century, from the early 1900s onwards, looking back at the history of the origins of football.