Book of football

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THE BOOK OF FOOTBALL
. . . The match was a tie, no goal being scored on
either side."
The above gives date to football—of a certain kind,
I admit, but still, it is true, football—beyond the
Border. Doubtless many an English, Welsh, or Irish
international captain of recent years would have liked
to have been able to enlist the services of a smart horse-
man to run after and catch a Don Wauchope, a Mac-
lagan, or a K. G. Macleod, but
autyes temps, autyes
MOWS.
As to the date of football in the West Countree we
have the vivid words of one Carew, who says that the
game was played in Cornwall at the beginning of the
seventeenth century, adding :—
" I cannot well resolve," he concludes, " whether I
should the more commend the game for its manhood
and exercise, or condemn it for the boisterousness and
harm that it begetteth ; for as on the one side it makes
their bodies strong, hard,and nimble,and puts a courage
into their hearts to meet an enemy in the face; so, on
the other part, it is accompanied by many dangers,
some of which do even fall to the player's share; for
the proof whereof, when the hurling
(i.e.
the game) is
ended you shall see them retiring home as from a
pitched battle with bloody pates, bones broken and
out of joint,, and such bruises as serve to shorten their
days, yet all in good play, and never attorney or
coroner troubled for the matter."
Well done, Carew! " Yet all in good play." There
is an infinity of meaning in those words, while the
reference to the attorney and the coroner might be
fl