The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland : with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 160
FOOTBALL '34 than the Leader, the Leader stoops down. — Earls Heaton, Yorks. (H. Hardy). This game is general. Mr. Emslie describes the London version somewhat differently. After all the boys had jumped over the first boy's back, a cry of " Foot it " was raised, and the boy who had given the back… … 1st position 2nd position 3rd position angle to the other, and in this way measured a " foot's length " from the starting-place. All the boys then " overed " his back from the original line, the last one crying "Foot it," and then the measuring ceremony was again gone through, and the game…
Games -- Great Britain
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