FOOTBALL OF OLD.
Somebody who has been looking up the history of the popular game tells that the Greeks played football, and so did the Romans, the latter using their hands as well as their feet. The game is supposed to have entered England with Caesar, although, according to the Encyclopaedia Britanuica, the first dis tinct mention of it was made in the twelfth century, when William Fitzstephen, in the “ History of London, ” wrote of the young men ef the city going out on certain festivals to play football after dinner. In an old London record in Latin is aparagraph which has been translated as follows: "And because of the great noise in the city by some players of large footballs, thrown in the meadow* of the people, from which evils might arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the king under pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city for the future. ”
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22693, 11 August 1903, Page 2
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160FOOTBALL OF OLD. Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22693, 11 August 1903, Page 2
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