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A MATCH at FOOT-BALL, Between ASH TON LEVER. Efqj And the TOWNSHIPS Middleton, Blakely, Preftwich, AGAINST, ..

... A MATCH at FOOT-BALL, Between ASH TON LEVER. Efqj And the TOWNSHIPS Middleton, Blakely, Preftwich, AGAINST, CAPTAIN AYTOUN, (Of (be Royal Manchester Volunteers) And the TOWNSHIPS of Rochdale, Royton, Oldham, For ico GUINEAS. To begin Twelve o’clock, WtimtJU’i ...

Published: Tuesday 03 February 1778
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 299 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

yI A T HI L L—l> li NL&a R ?

... fituation, infinitely more grateful to a Thane—tay, it were Parnatlus in comparifon. The renovation of the manly foorts of Foot-ball ai with the chace of another Pi which will certainly be exhibited on Mr. Magee’s retu from Belfaft, on that ground, give ...

Published: Thursday 20 August 1789
Newspaper: Dublin Evening Post
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Friday's Post, by Express

... few fhillings. Yefterday morning an extraordinary match of football took place at Dunftable-downs, in Bedfordfhire; a young gentle- taan took the hill for 200 guineas, eleven of the belt football players in the country, which was decided in his favour, ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1789
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

if GOAL S, / r'j . t

... mercy’s intermingled rays ! Oh | wond’rous lenity ! for man defign'd, Ap frail by nature, obftinate and blind— Temptation’s football, wily Satan's prey, And led by ev’ry paffing breeze away. There fhall no anzious cares difturb our reft, No headlong paffions ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1788
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The WAGER

... but laft night in my face went the candle. SWi a fcolding for ever, no tongue cam expreft, She makes the room echo, like football, no peace -, Now and then, nay \is often, my head lie will comb In a terrible manner i thui fuffer! poor Tons. She all company ...

LONDON, SATURDAY, February 9

... laft a melancholy accident happened on Hampton Court Green: as Quarter-mafter Colllon, of the 16th Light Horfe, was kicking foot-ball, he tripped up, and falling with his breaft on a lump of ice or congealed fnow, was killed dead on the fpot. It is remarkable ...

Published: Monday 11 February 1799
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 688 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONDI TION3

... CllllOll of their will antwer every expec. tat ion. a,.41 its trail,. May 16 FOR SALE. A YOUNT uf BREVIER, hail worn; aboat football/ dred weight. Enquire at the Office of the 01 the United State'', No. 11;0 Cl.efnut-fleett. Jufl Arrived, In the Stow Bof:oo ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1796
Newspaper: Gazette of the United States
County: Pennsylvania, USA
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COUNTRY NEWS

... Lightning • but con tinuingfome Seconds, quickly turned m)felt round, and great Ball of Fire(appar*ntly about the Sue of common Football) defending from the Heavens. _ Diregion was N. E. its Motion much like what is vulgarly called the /hooting a Stir. vanifhed ...

Published: Monday 08 January 1759
Newspaper: Sussex Advertiser
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Reports from the Daily Papers

... no Anfwer from the Boy, and the Noife ftill continuing, he looked out of his Hammock, and perceived the Tyger playing at Foot-Ball with Quamino's Head. The Caufe was this : The poor Boy had by fome Acci- dent, the preceding Evening, cut his Neck, which ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1764
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

fo PRINTERS the KENTISH GAZE K. Gentlemen, F. hu nitrous version an OKI We! Song on-* pipers friend. lam lure

... teli, Th ar«r - t Have wounded all curing. mecieri. Her was the prettieft fe'l ny Tarn dodtus erat nemo y.i\> t\ia.yuc\ football or at cricket, ' Vel i vel bacilli Ua.vrcc.Sxu ta£r» A hunting, chace, cr nimble, race, Curfu pedellri vel Cot's-plut, how ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1771
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DERBY, May iS

... and Manflaughter upon the Body of George Twigge, at Afhford in this County. It is faid to have happened in a Quar- rel at Foot-Ball. We are informed that one Samuel Roberts, a Whipthong-maker of Nottingham, who was Planet-ftruck fome Time ago, (which deprived ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1775
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 3 | Tags: none