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... eceitury-evcii ueh of us as have hbd our schooling at Rugby-can sciircely picture to ourselves What a well-contested rsinc of football must husve been two, three, or foun' centuries ago. tn the north of ELigland, coiinitv svould be pitted against county, Aaa ...

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE

... Were competed for; after the shooting 'lall adjourned to dinner, provided by the host. of the Mount PlCasant Inn, After ?? football and other gasneo wer indulged in till sif o'clook; when the Compa3ay marrced to Staeroro, o ein Most Ball, of the Courtnny ...

INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL MATCH

... INTERXATIONAI FOOTBALL MATCH. This important annual match ?? England and Scot- to land, as played eccording to the Rugby rules, came off on rg Monday afternoon at the Kennington Oval. The first o, match was played at Edinburgh in the Spring of 1871, sg ...

NEWPORT

... - NEW±OBT. GREAT FOOTBALLT MATOE.-Bwahasm v. .Wospor.-Tae a return match between these football clubs was played on the he Newport Marshes on Saturday.- A large assemblage -of pe ladies and gentlemnen were on the ground to witness the at game, which was ...

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS

... e &o. The workhouses are fall, and the Boards of Guardians rare employing sble-bodied men to break stones. B The annual football match between the Universities . of Oxford and Cambridge, under Rugby Union rules,took it place on Wednesday afternoon at ...

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS

... the Old Inn, Malborough-at 10.45. TiEs STRATTON HOUNDS will meet on Thursday. January 17, at Weekstone, Pancras Week-at 11. FOOTBALL. THE PRESS ?? THE WANDERERS.-This match was played on Saturday, on the grounds of the former, in the Mount Pleasant-road ...

PLOUGHING MATCH AT BLAGDON

... submitted the Health of,'.Major Allen, M.P., and Mr. FR. Bright, MlP. The prizes were then 'dishibuted in accordance with FOOTBALL. ROCKLEAZE v. CARDIFI'. Tis ienatch waes played on Cliftonwvewai onl Saturday. the weatherntnboverYhn, andthb ground wxS ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1709 | Page: 6 | Tags: Sports and Games 

THE FOOTBALL CHALLENGE CUP FOR SOUTH WALES

... THE FOOTBALL, UALLENG19 CUP FOR ' U * AjL' ,,V , The presentation of the Challenge Cup, which had been won, after a series of footballb contests, by the Newport Club, took place on Wednesday evening, at a banquet held at the King's Head hotel. The proprietor ...

THE OLD COTSWOLD GAMES

... particulars. Another I game at Cotswold was a belloon, a kind of handball played with | a large leather ball like the modern football, driven through the air from person to person, struek by a bracer of wood fastened round the hand and wrist for proteetion ...

AUSTRALIANS v. WEST OF SCOTLAND

... El.Hnm , ?? 22 21 9 3 w. Williamson ?? 19 39 2 7 J. Green ?? 6 12 2 a TH E THIR EE GR ?? last number of the Cricket and -Football Times contains a paper on the brothers Grace. It is from the pen of the author of the Guide to the Cricket Ground, 'and ...

SCHOOLMASTERS' CRICKET CLUB DINFNER

... ranks and fine men to command each regiment. He believed it was the Eng- lish education and the English love of cricket, football, hockey, and all those healthy games, that had made our soldiers so powerful, and their endurance so great when they had ...