Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 85
62 YE MERRY GAME OF FOOTBALL. … In 1583, Stubbes, in his celebrated work onAbuses in the Realme of England, said : Foras concerning football playing, I protest untoyou that it may rather becalled a friendly kinde offyghte than a play or rec-reation, a bloody andmurthering practice thana felowly sporte or pas-time. For doth not…
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