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16 Vols of DICKENS' WORKS and 10 Vols, of THE WORLD GREAT CLASSICS.
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ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL.
FLAYED IN FLORENCE IN SIXTEENTH
CENTURY...
WAS SPORT OF NOBLES,/
It will astonish many to learn that football, n game in which Britons avartwhate excel, is not, as popularly supposed, of British origin, There cap, however, ut no doubt that it was conturias ago played is England. It was cea sured and opposed by Edward II, and III, and its suppression attempted by Henry IV, Henry VII., and Elizabeth, but without success
An American writer, in the Now York Herald, Dow claims the game to be of Italish origin. He says:-
to osch man. There were 17 players on each alda. Five scosciatori (interiorers or tacklers), seren datori (givers or backs), and fifteen cor tidori (runners or forwards), sliclad in silk with gorgeous trimmings and laces, with clasps and buckles of gold and silvenny
"The banners of each side," continues the author, shall be given to custody to the judges, or in the hands of the soldiers of the Duke. In a place high and sublime abail the Judges sit, whence they may survey the entire field. At the fint sound. of the trumpet all the attendants and servants shall retire, leaving free the field; at the second the players shall take their appolated places; at the third, the pallalo (literally ballar, or ball carrier,
or starter) shall justly hurl the ball":"
In a certain way the Florettine trampel did instrument sted in war it probably had the 'what our referee's whistla doay to-day. · · As an
effect of inspiring martial ardour in the players.
"DEFIXES THE FOUL BALL,"
Homer refers to a game played with a ball by the Princess Nausicaa, lo whose veios "flowed ths blond of heroes," But he does not tell an that the game was played with the feet Yat [413] some kind of football game was, so far as
***If, during" the game the ball go outside the we know, invented by the Greeks, They call fence, carried by the fury of the runners," con ed it. fesloda at first, and later spheromakia,inue the rules, it shall be placed again on the and from them it passed to the Romans, ground in the place whence it went out. (Com 'who again changed is name and called it para our "out").......... It shall always be counted as barpastum.
foul if the ball, builed or hit by the open hand, shall rise to a height greater that the ordinary stature of a man. It shall be counted as a go if the ball, pushed by punching or kicking, ball go outside the last fences of the opponent's ahead. Tws louls shall count as a goat for the opponents."
FOR ACCOUNT of the Estate of the
LATE'MR. O, D.-THOMSON, -
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A.NUMBER OF
LAW BOOKS,
i.
After the tims of the Romans there is no record of the game valil at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renais sance, when it appears both in England and in (inly, in England it was a very wild and pri mitive game. Some say that it originated at the time of the Picts and the Scols, when the tiatives
look the heads of their enemies and kicked them around the baulfield. Needless to say CHITTY'S STATUTES by I. M. Lely, that nobody cares to give credit to such a bar
Comprising
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barous legend-leist of all Englishmen.
Then there is a tale to the effect that in the cty of Chester, "since time out of midd," the shoemakers used to deliver a leather ball to the drapers of Shrque Tudday. A similar custom seems to have been the fashion also in Dorset shire or Whit Monday. But all these legends are very vague, and there is not sufficient his torical proof to show a deffoits origin of the
game..
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the fence. In overthrowing an opponent, he shall karar strike him by punchlug, but with outstretched arma meat him. I may not indeed that the player shall show cowardico, and that, discourtesy being done him, he thall not rernut it or turn his face from his opponent, but rather that he shall attack him vigorously with power ful purchas; yat 1 say that as soon as they be divided he shall run to the ball, and the game shall continue.
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PORTLAND CEMENT.
From this we may infer that slugging took GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY;: place most of the time, and that it was part of the business of the players to separate their 6ghting comrades, in order that the game should continue. In short, the resentment was neces sary, but need not be prolonged. Perhaps it should be taken into consideration that at the roughest period of the middle ages had passed time these rules were written and onforted thi and the soothing influence of the Resistance was prevalent.
Let the players bohave comteously," says our author, toward those who, without fraud,
/*inalmuch as our
shall play the right manner of the gene proper to it, but brought about by the affec for "punching Intervanes in the game, not a
tions of the mind. nature is so subject to ire, and to the other matter how we treat one with another ends troubled motions of the mind, that almost no
without mixture of some less than reasonable
motion," a
And further he adds Let us leave it to the
for
Having win the goal the players shall ugly beates to adger for the hurts of the body
without peace this (game) change sides (identical with our rule). lolaterald not be a pleasurable contest between preting and executing the present rules, and in
at
gentlemen
which by them is not provided for, the
It might be natural fo infer from those re authority of the judges shall be sovereign. The victory shall be fa that side which shall marks that our author was merely throwing have most times, congireted the goal or shall be out, for daly's sake, a piece of worthy theoretic superiar by reasons of fouls. Then, shail the advice, or that, perhaps, writing his book when banners belong to the conquering bibner be wall too old to take active, part to the game holder, and in case of tie each side. shail keep be bad forgotten the violent emotions of the Victory shalt be arcoptest. One curious remark, that he makes is sunced by waving the victorious banner, and that men playing against their political rivals by shooting the usual-cannons."
Evidently organised cheesing, was unknown Can- to the Florentides, who preferred to let a
Fits own banner..
shall not take this opportunity of striking them. *Thys personal, comities shall have no place in this game autong friends.
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Th lay the game ofthe kick, as it way called, became one of the mold "popular"of winter
That the game of the kick was enjoyed as sports. lo, Florence, especially during the 16th express their cotbusiasm: The custom by 1421 century, it was the occasion of great public which the victors waved their own banner and much, by the Florentines of the 16th century as our game is 'abwadays in America is bi festivity and celebration. It was at this time appropriated that of their opponents was fre. that a football enthusiast" by the name of Gio.. quently a cause of great trouble, for the defeat-denced by the facts that tremendous crowdi vanoi de Bardi, a Fluentine, who is his youthed players, "as a wounded beast that shows its amounting at times to more than forty thous had been a very famous player, decided when teeth," would at once run for their enemies and, crowded the Piatra Santa Croce on theie THE F. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer,
cátaival days. he became too old is play to publish a book standards and lear them to latters. containing a complete record of the game.
*:"And," says our author," while each wrath. fully tries to tear some piece of the enemy's banner, what with kicks and blows and knocks and falls, they all remain a tired and bruised and broken up that for the whole day they can not do what they should."
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PLAYED BY NOBILITY. Fortunately for this book it's il acces sible, though are. The author describes the game minutely, and gives us a complete set of Tules and the name of the most renowned
There was roughness all through The players. At that time the game was a pageant its very nature required it. Our auther puts FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF in which only be highest nobility could take it very plainly, and gives dian excellent defini-ARTMENT OF
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THE
part. In fact, among the most proficient play- ers are recorded Henry of Conde, Alexander Duke of Florance, Gailio de Medici, who later becami Pope Clement VI); Alexander, de Medici later. Lee Xly and Maffic Barberial, later Urban VIII-al famous leaders of men who fut-tested their prowess on the Florentine gridiron,
It is curious to note that in England football remained ş, gamo" "only fit for yokejs and prentices up to comparatively modern times,
Perhaps the most interesting part of De Bardi's record is his complete set of rules, There rules, 34. in nomber, are so strikingly similar to our modem rules of American fool ball that the quesito suggests itself at once whether our game and the Florentine did not have the same origio. And such a supposition seems most probable. 10 fact, ka know that the Romans had a game of football and that they established a large colony England, It is baf satural that among their customs they should have introduced this game, and that (435 later the nativas, adopting it at their own should have changed it to suit their Anglo Sazoo (emperament and their degree of civili sation. Then, little by little the game would have developed and become papular. In 1341 we find an order of King Edward II, forbid ding i'entirely, because it fotelfeld with the rightful sport of mes, namely, archery,
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ENGLISH HOT INVENTORS. English investigaters, eager to make this game an English invention, sem Got to have given dua credit to the Roman brigit. England deserves praise for keeping the game alive in modern times and for passing it on to America, where it has fately, received a new and mar vellous development, but not for inventing it A short survey of the Florentine ules will, not only convince us of this, but will also give us picture of the sixtecoth century gaiety; and as understanding of the attitude of these times to athletics, an attitude which was so very different from où,3. *.
lion
game.
of the object of the game."
ANCIENT EPORTSMANSHIP. loasmuch," be says, as in the game of the kick are expressed all the agitations and all the fatigues of the mind and the body," the object of the game is "I make the body healthy, quick, and the mind awake, strong, and eager for virtuous victory," "
Of course, such a gooonl object might be applied to most outdoor games. Bat from this point our author begins to describe minutely the work of each kind of player, and then en- tess into a lengthy discussion of what we now term "slugging." This is perhaps the most in? teresting part of his description, because it shows us exactly what the mediaeval altitude toward sport was, and how far our attitude dif fers from it
we know that the middle ages were a time of continuous, warfare, boti feudal and indivi. dual, the letter developed by an exaggerated sense of personal bosque. Dustling comes di rectly from this source, as the result of the idea that personal insult or injury could not be effaced by anything short of blood. It is to bs noticed, however, that the game of the kick was not played at all as a conflict for su-- premacy between two representative sides but was, instead, and not.atly in theory but-in practice, a pleasurable coolest between friends ten porarily.opposing one another and that it was as much a pageant as a fight. So we have here a peculiar condition of affairs, namely rough bandling necessitated by the very nature of the game; immediate sesenting of any per- sonal injury necessitated by the sense of honour
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of the time, and besides these too coping with the latest improvement, the forces the idea of the beauty of the game as s picturesque array which must not be marred lightest touch, the strongest and the by any unpleasing incident.
How thess Flarepilues succeeded in har- monising those three elements it is hard to understand. Judging from the fact, they did not succeed at all, and their attempt invariably Tequote briefly from be rules The game, resulted is a general rough house, But it is accessitating much fatigue, shall be played in interesting to note how different their ideas the cold season, from January 6 until the end, and tastes were from our, of the carnival, is one of the principal squares of the city, so that the noble, ladies and its people may better view it; in which square fence shall be made 171 'bracialla length and
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sure of that time was somewhat longer tha half a yard, so that the size of the field enclosed by such a fence was, roughly speaking, almost lecting the idea of the external beauty of the
jured by bla opponents while we, entirely Deg to strike back immediately when struck or in hand Typewriters
identical to that of our American football Geld:
In Florence the game is stually played in Rame, put the stress on its moral beauty, the Piazza Santa Croce. A historian of the namely, on the winning and on, the Individual time saya that oneday the player, in order that control of temper. Tesscity, restraint Zand The Later Style Goods for Present Season they should be "not only seen bat beard, sent team work are the qualities desired in Ameri-
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BONS, LACE, BRIDAL VEILS, them. FANCY DRESS GOODS, MUSLINS, ⠀⠀ "At the sound of the trumpsis the plarem, LAWNS, NAINSOOKS, SHIRT clad in the distinctive colour of their sides, that INGS ALPACAS HOSIERY, appear. In the field rons, audibez rule. The ENGLISH and AMERICAN FOOT-blus, or red and yellow. The player
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Our Florentine authority says in his simple way that it is part of the game with pretty wrestling to overthrow "a player to the ground, causing great laughter among the populace that rejoices, and seeing, learns how with so little effort alertest of the before mentioned
a similartower may be made to crumble,”
concisiori who 4 do als guide what the elephants did in the ancient baules and the beavy cavalry in' And now we
so coupled as to givell picti
to the parade. Then they
holding bands in the
(ach
unul tây: Frovedtors "hud-
position of the ball only, and jo
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