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DER NEUENHEIMER.
VI
English population, on account of its roughness and ter-
rible horse-play, as will be shewn a little further on. In
Greece the inioxupoQ seems to have borne resemblance
to the modern game; this was the game at Football,
played much in the same way as with us, by a great
number of people divided into two parties opposite to
one another. Amongst the Romans the »Harpastum«
(derived from the Greek apicd&o, to seize, thus showing
that carrying the ball was permissible) bore a certain
resemblance to our game. The Antiquity of Football in
Great Britain (introduced undoubtedly by the Romans)
was some centuries further back than Cricket, probably
because the requisites, only an inflated ball and rude
goals, were fewer and simpler than in the Summer game.
The birthplace of Cricket was in the Southern Counties,
that of Football in the northern. As is above said, Foot-
ball was once one of the most popular games in Eng-
land, but it does not appear among the most popular
games of England until the reign of Edward the third
(1365), and in that reign it was forbidden by public
edict, because, together with other games, it began to
cause the decadence of Archery.
Football has always had a most mysterious sort of
connexion with Shrove Tuesday and Scotland. In Sir
Walter Scott's songs we see how popular the game was
in his native land; and a great match took place on
December 5 th 1815 at Carterhaugh, Ettrick Forest, bet-
ween the Ettrick men and the men of Harrow, one party
being backed by the Earl of Home and the other by Sir
Walter Scott, Sheriff of the Forest. In old times, after
dinner the young men used to go into the fields and
play »at ball«. The scholars of every School had their
own >ball« or »bastion« in their hands. The elder and
well-to-do men of the town would come out on horse-
back to see the sport of the young men. We find also
that it was usual to play Football in the streets of Lon-
don in the 17 th century.
This noble game was so common in the neighbour-
hood of London at that time, that it became such a
nuisance to the rest of the inhabitants, that it had to be
suppressed by the magistrates. No wonder the game fell
into such ill repute after such Horse-play. At an old
DER NEUENHEIMER.
VI
English population, on account of its roughness and ter-
rible horse-play, as will be shewn a little further on. In
Greece the inioxupoQ seems to have borne resemblance
to the modern game; this was the game at Football,
played much in the same way as with us, by a great
number of people divided into two parties opposite to
one another. Amongst the Romans the »Harpastum«
(derived from the Greek apicd&o, to seize, thus showing
that carrying the ball was permissible) bore a certain
resemblance to our game. The Antiquity of Football in
Great Britain (introduced undoubtedly by the Romans)
was some centuries further back than Cricket, probably
because the requisites, only an inflated ball and rude
goals, were fewer and simpler than in the Summer game.
The birthplace of Cricket was in the Southern Counties,
that of Football in the northern. As is above said, Foot-
ball was once one of the most popular games in Eng-
land, but it does not appear among the most popular
games of England until the reign of Edward the third
(1365), and in that reign it was forbidden by public
edict, because, together with other games, it began to
cause the decadence of Archery.
Football has always had a most mysterious sort of
connexion with Shrove Tuesday and Scotland. In Sir
Walter Scott's songs we see how popular the game was
in his native land; and a great match took place on
December 5 th 1815 at Carterhaugh, Ettrick Forest, bet-
ween the Ettrick men and the men of Harrow, one party
being backed by the Earl of Home and the other by Sir
Walter Scott, Sheriff of the Forest. In old times, after
dinner the young men used to go into the fields and
play »at ball«. The scholars of every School had their
own >ball« or »bastion« in their hands. The elder and
well-to-do men of the town would come out on horse-
back to see the sport of the young men. We find also
that it was usual to play Football in the streets of Lon-
don in the 17 th century.
This noble game was so common in the neighbour-
hood of London at that time, that it became such a
nuisance to the rest of the inhabitants, that it had to be
suppressed by the magistrates. No wonder the game fell
into such ill repute after such Horse-play. At an old