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| | Eton Field Game@Everything2.com |
 | | The Eton Field Game is a bit of football mixed with a bit of rugby, and yet is somehow like neither. |
 | | The game is the main sport played in Lent half (the term that runs from January onwards), and, as no-one else in the world whatsoever plays the game, is mostly restricted to inter-house leagues and cups, with a champion of champions cup awarded to the house that performs the best in all competitions overall. |
 | | It mixes the aggression and brawn (and, it has to be said, cunning) of the forwards' play with the sometimes tremendous skill shown by the behinds in kicking the ball about (not to mention their tremendous cowardice), trying to place it so their forwards can get to it before the opposition behind can clear it. |
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