FOOTBALL WITHOUT BOOTS
There are 2,400' feet, or 13,000 toes, engaged in the modern Hawaiian sport of playing football without, shoes. Those figures embrace only those players who are regulars on the teams m the registered barefoot leagues. There are sixty teams in the islands. Each team has an average "of twenty “regulars,” each player has an average of two feet, and each foot has an average of five (very tough) toes. Barefootball is rapidly growing in popularity among both participants and spectators. Last season there were only forty-one shoeless teams in the territory. An increase in the epidemic of hard-boiled feet, however, lias materially boosted the figure fro this season, and new weight classifications have been added to the league lists. The barefooters can kick off, place kick, and drop kick with skill, and frequently punt for 60yds or more. An average, of ten scheduled games of football, barefoot brand, are played in Honolulu every week-end. Near the end of the season interisland contests are played betwee z the elevens on the Islands of Oahu (Honolulu), Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii. At the close of the season a contest is held to pick Hawaii’s champion long-distance shoeless kickers.
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Evening Star, Issue 20328, 9 November 1929, Page 28
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198FOOTBALL WITHOUT BOOTS Evening Star, Issue 20328, 9 November 1929, Page 28
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