Football Games
This exhibition explores Asia’s fundamental role in the development and refinement of games. It brings together some of Asia's most significant examples of boards, pieces, and other game playing paraphernalia from museums and private collections worldwide.
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Dagonell the Juggler discusses the rules for Gameball, a medieval ancestor of the modern game of football.
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Quotes and illustrations concerning the game now known as soccer. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, "foote-ball" was a primitive game that involved a ball and scoring. Not much else about it was regulated.
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National Geographic explores the histories of the Irish sports of hurley and football.
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OK, it's not really football as we know it, maybe a closer description would be something akin to rugby or gaelic football. Or, no-rules rugby more like! Gameball, to give it its proper name, consisted of getting a ball into your opposing teams goals. Which might have been anything, a place, a house, a doorway, a gate, then next village even.
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Philip Stubbes started writing around 1581 producing small tracts in which he sharply denounced the manners, pastimes, fashions and culture in England. His major work, The Anatomie of Abuses, was first published in 1583.
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P hilip Stubbes had a gift for keen observatio n. Although his comments should not be considered to reveal mainstream thought or opinions of the time, (even his contempora ries thought him extreme) his virulent attacks on the abuses in fashion and English society provide us with a detailed, colorful and picturesqu e glimpse into the England of Shakespear e's youth. |
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Listings: 6
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Last listing added: 01/18/38
Regular: 6
Last listing added: 01/18/38