Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kodayake dokokin 1848 da aka bayyana a cikin wasikar Malden ba su tsira ba, sun jawo hankalin masana tarihi na wasan. Alcock ya yi sharhi cewa "Bayanan Mista Malden game da motsi na asali a cikin goyon bayan ka'idar kwallon kafa guda ɗaya shine mafi ban sha'awa, daga gaskiyar cewa babu wanda ya ga haske a baya. [...] Ko yaya dai, babu shakka ya tabbatar da wanzuwar ƙa'idar da aka haɗa shekaru hamsin da suka shige". N. L. Jackson, da yake rubutu a shekara ta 1899, ya ce dokokin da aka bayyana a cikin wasiƙar Malden "sun tabbatar da cewa Wasan Association ya samo asali ne daga Jami'ar Cambridge". An ce taron da aka yi a shekara ta 1848 "ya cancanci a tuna da shi kamar yadda aka tuna da [abubuwan da suka faru a wannan shekarar a] Frankfurt, Paris
, da kuma Kennington Common. "