Medieval football is a modern term used for a wide variety of the localised informal football games which were invented and played in England during the...

of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century, itself an outgrowth of medieval football...

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The Atherstone Ball Game is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours...

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in 1845. Forms of football in which the ball was carried and tossed date to the Middle Ages (see medieval football). Rugby football spread to other English...

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The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire...

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against Brazil. Early references to dribbling come from accounts of medieval football games in England. For example, Geoffrey Chaucer offered an allusion...

of medieval football played in Scotland, primarily in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year. Ba' is essentially mob football, or...

Paul, first recorded in 1762, is one of the few surviving games of medieval football still being played. The game has only a few rules and involves large...

of kicking the "Dane's head" is unlikely to be true. Few images of medieval football survive. One engraving from the early fourteenth century at Gloucester...

summer, a game of medieval football is played with goalposts set up in the River Windrush itself. Two teams play with a standard football and a referee attempts...

Middle Scots poem of the sixteenth century. It depicts the game of medieval football, as it was played in the same era, as being violent and unruly. Ball...

the Roman Empire, including Medieval football. From the 16th century onwards, calcio fiorentino, another code of football distinct from the modern game...

as billiards), skittles (an ancestor of modern ten pin bowling), medieval football, kolven, stoolball (an ancestor of cricket), jeu de paume (early racket-less...

competing at GB level, and some competing for GB at international events. Medieval football was once played in the town. The game was played annually on Shrove...

balls. Decades later, Richard Lindon did the same. (See also Mob football, Medieval football, and La soule.) For centuries before the invention of the paint...

known as Uppies and Downies, a traditional version of football, with its origins in medieval football or an even earlier form. Players from outside Workington...

Borders College also has a small campus in the town. This is a kind of medieval football. Three balls or "Bas" were required for this game; the first was gold...

ball game, which has been suggested as one of the earliest images of medieval football. Between the apsidal chapels is a cross Lady chapel, and north of...

Ashbourne in Derbyshire is known for its Royal Shrovetide Football, described as a "medieval football game", played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday...

with over 500 football clubs and 38,000 players in the county. The game of football is first documented in Sussex in 1403 as medieval football. The modern...

games of medieval cultures, Greenwood, 2002, on Google books Archived 6 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine "Rugby Football History". Rugby Football History...

Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the...

of association football has its origins in medieval ball games and English public school games. The modern game of association football originated in the...

and the world. Together with Cornish hurling (a localised form of medieval football), Wrasslin' has been promoted as a distinctly Celtic game, tied closely...

Atherstone Hunt, a fox hunt based in Warwickshire Atherstone Ball Game, a medieval football game placed on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire...

American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams...