Eton Field Game

Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which is called soccer in several countries. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and Rugby league), American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, and Canadian football. When the term "foot ball" originated, it referred to a wide variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot — that is, by peasants — as oppose ...

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Eton College boards approximately 1,290 boys between the ages of 13 and 18 (roughly 250 in each year) at a cost about £23,688(GBP) a year. A small number of the pupils – approximately 14 in each year – attend Eton on scholarships provided for by the original bequest and awarded by examination each year; they are known as King's Scholars and live in the College itself, paying up to 75 per cent of full fees. Of the other pupils, up to a third rec ...

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Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Old Etonians

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In Canada, "football" can refer to either Canadian football or American football, often differentiated as either "CFL" (from the governing Canadian Football League) or "NFL" (from the US National Football League). Because of the similarity between the games, many people in both countries do not consider the two styles of football separate sports per se, but rather different codes of the same sport. If a Canadian were to say, "My brother plays football in the US", it would be clear from context that American football is meant. Association football, which is rapidly ...

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Much of Eton slang is the same as other public school slang (for example, calling the elder brother Major and the younger brother Minor). However, there are numerous Eton-specific phrases, including: Absence: a roll call Beak: a schoolmaster (teacher). This term is not, in fact, specific to the school and is used elsewhere, although perhaps not as commonly as it is at Eton. Block: A school year-group, 'F' Block being the first yea ...

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Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Historical terms no longer in use, Eton College - Old Etonians

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The process of getting the ball is arduous and a stalemate often ensues. This is because, in effect, the game consists of the two sets of players forming a rugby-style scrummage (called a "Bully") in which neither team may move the ball backwards (except in Calx, where a different type of Bully occurs). The Bully is formed next to the Wall and crabs slowly up and down the Wall inch by inch until the ball emerges. Many players, particularly those whose position is actually against the Wall (the position is termed 'Wall'), lose the skin off th ...

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Eton Wall Game, Eton Wall Game - Rules and Scoring, Eton Wall Game - Play, Eton Wall Game - Organisation

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Football - English public schools. The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools — attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes — comes from the Vulgaria by William Horman in 1519. Horman had been headmaster at Eton College and Winchester and his Latin textbook includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde". The first specific mention of football can be found in a Latin poem by Robert ...

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Football, Football - History, Football - Ancient games, Football - Mediæval football, Football - Calcio Fiorentino, Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football, Football - The establishment of modern codes of football, Football - English public schools, Football - The Cambridge Rules, Football - Other developments in the 1850s, Football - Australian Rules football, Football - The Football Association, Football - Rugby football, Football - North American football, Football - Gaelic football, Football - The split in rugby football, Football - The reform of American football, Football - The two rugby codes diverge further, Football - Football today, Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries, Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863, Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules, Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football, Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games, Football - Other surviving public school games, Football - More recent inventions and derivations, Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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Throughout the history of mankind the urge to kick at stones and other such objects must have inevitably led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games undoubtedly predate recorded history in all parts of the world and the earliest forms of football can only be guessed at. Football - Ancient games. Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the ...

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Football, Football - History, Football - Ancient games, Football - Mediæval football, Football - Calcio Fiorentino, Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football, Football - The establishment of modern codes of football, Football - English public schools, Football - The Cambridge Rules, Football - Other developments in the 1850s, Football - Australian Rules football, Football - The Football Association, Football - Rugby football, Football - North American football, Football - Gaelic football, Football - The split in rugby football, Football - The reform of American football, Football - The two rugby codes diverge further, Football - Football today, Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries, Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863, Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules, Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football, Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games, Football - Other surviving public school games, Football - More recent inventions and derivations, Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, which he also founded in 1441. Henry VI took half the scholars and the headmaster from William of Wykeham's Winchester College (founded 1382). Eton is modelled on Winchester College, ...

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Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Old Etonians

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Past students of Eton College are referred to as Old Etonians. The school is popular with the British Royal Family – Princes William and Harry of Wales are the most recent members to have attended – and has also produced nineteen British Prime Ministers. There are many Old Etonians in the Special Air Service (SAS) and several who went on to become famous scientists, writers or sportsmen. A rising number of students also come to Eton from overseas, including members of royal families from Africa and Asia, some of whom have been sen ...

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Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Old Etonians

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Throughout the history of mankind the urge to kick at stones and other such objects is thought to have led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, though the earliest forms of football are not known. Football - Ancient games. Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the ...

See also:

Football, Football - History, Football - Ancient games, Football - Mediæval football, Football - Calcio Fiorentino, Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football, Football - The establishment of modern codes of football, Football - English public schools, Football - The Cambridge Rules, Football - Other developments in the 1850s, Football - Australian Rules football, Football - The Football Association, Football - Rugby football, Football - North American football, Football - Gaelic football, Football - The split in rugby football, Football - The reform of American football, Football - The two rugby codes diverge further, Football - Football today, Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries, Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863, Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules, Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football, Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games, Football - Other surviving public school games, Football - More recent inventions and derivations, Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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In Ireland, "football" can mean association football or Gaelic football, depending on which code predominates within the speaker's community. For Ulster Unionists in Northern Ireland, "football" is never Gaelic football. In urban areas, especially Dublin, "football" usually means association football. In rural areas, particularly the west of Ireland, "football" usually means Gaelic football. For many people, either sport may be called "football" depending on the context; conversely, without context, "football" is ...

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Football word, Football word - Australia, Football word - Canada, Football word - Ireland, Football word - New Zealand, Football word - South Africa, Football word - United Kingdom, Football word - United States

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Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, which he also founded in 1441. Henry VI took half the scholars and the headmaster from William of Wykeham's Winchester College (founded 1382). Eton is modelled on Winchester College, ...

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Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Historical terms no longer in use, Eton College - Old Etonians

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The Wall Game is run almost entirely by boys, particularly by the Keepers of College Wall and Oppidan Wall. It is the former of these, Alex 'Trevor' Sever, who is currently the most active (!) in its organisation; his position has in the past been held by Boris Johnson, the politician. Eric Blair (aka. George Orwell) and Harold Macmillan have been other famous players of the game. Despite its renown outside the school, in fact only a very small number of the 250 or so boys in each year ever take part in the sport, unlike the lesser-kno ...

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Eton Wall Game, Eton Wall Game - Rules and Scoring, Eton Wall Game - Play, Eton Wall Game - Organisation

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Eton College boards approximately 1,290 boys between the ages of 13 and 18 (roughly 250 in each year) at a cost about £23,688(GBP) a year. A small number of the pupils – approximately 14 in each year – attend Eton on scholarships provided for by the original bequest and awarded by examination each year; they are known as King's Scholars and live in the College itself, paying up to 75 per cent of full fees. Of the other pupils, up to a third rec ...

See also:

Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Historical terms no longer in use, Eton College - Old Etonians

Read more here: » Eton College: Encyclopedia II - Eton College - Overview

Past students of Eton College are referred to as Old Etonians. The school is popular with the British Royal Family – Princes William and Harry of Wales are the most recent members to have attended – and has also produced nineteen British Prime Ministers. There are many Old Etonians in the Special Air Service (SAS) and several who went on to become famous scientists, writers or sportsmen. A rising number of students also come to Eton from overseas, including members of royal families from Africa and Asia, some of whom have been sen ...

See also:

Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Historical terms no longer in use, Eton College - Old Etonians

Read more here: » Eton College: Encyclopedia II - Eton College - Old Etonians