Career
An English FA administrator from Blackburn, Woolfall was elected as president on 4 June 1906. Under Woolfall, the application of the Laws of the Game, established under the English model, became compulsory and a clear definition was made of international matches. Two years after assuming the presidency, he helped to organise the first noteworthy international football competition, the 1908 Olympic Games in London.
His tenure as president brought the arrival of Fédération internationale de football association"s first non-European members in South Africa, Argentina, Chile and the United States but was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.
Woolfall"s presidency ended with his death in October 1918.