When the Football Association met in February 1867, its president Ebenezer Morley, even wondered if it would be best to disband the three-and-a-half-year-old association, such was the paucity of attendance and lack of interest. The quest for a universal code of football Laws was a failure. Football, in Britain and elsewhere in the world was set on a course of fracturing into a number of different codes. Had every club fallen into line behind the Football Association there would have been no rugby union or rugby league. A strong unified football code may even have supressed the growth of American football, Gaelic football and Australian rules football.