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	Fives
		Fives is a hand-ball game played as singles or doubles in a small walled court, in which the object is to force the other team to fail to hit the ball off the walls.
		Eton Fives has a more complex variation and some specific court features or 'hazards'.
		Fives is not the same as Long Fives, which is played in a real tennis court.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Fives.html (92 words)

	Wikinfo \| Fives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fives is a British form of handball in which a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved hands.
		Fives is a minority sport played by enthusiasts numbering perhaps 4,000 active adult players in the United Kingdom.
		Like the Eton Fives Association, the Rugby Fives Association (the governing body of Rugby Fives, founded in 1927) has affiliations from over forty schools and thirty-two clubs, from Edinburgh to Tavistock, and there are also a number of clubs overseas, for example in South Africa and the United States.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Fives (639 words)

	EFA: Fives FAQ
		The first purpose built Fives courts were built at Eton in the 1840s were based on the original court with certain modifications to improve the game.
		Eton Fives is an amateur game, played primarily by men and boys, but in recent years several schools and clubs have introduced the game to female players.
		There are currently thirty Fives clubs, comprised of twenty-four active Old Boys clubs, The Jesters, two teams each from Oxford and Cambridge Universities (a team is usually 3 pairs) and one team from London University.
	www.etonfives.co.uk /about.fives/faq.html (565 words)

	Repton School, Derbyshire, independent school for boys and girls 13 to 19.
		The origin of the name Fives is uncertain, but it probably refers to the fingers, as in 'a bunch of fives' and has been used since the 17th century.
		Fives is a handball game where players use padded gloves to propel a cork ball around an oddly shaped three-sided court.
		The shape of the current court derives from the side of the chapel at Eton College, which was supported by buttresses that formed bays in which the boys could play, and it is on this bay that the ‘modern’ Eton Fives courts are based.
	www.repton.org.uk /mainlist.html?pgi=act.sport.fives (287 words)

	Eton Fives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eton Fives was first played in one of the bays of College Chapel by the steps up to the north entrance.
		Eton also enters the Williams Cup (an inter-school competition for senior teams), and is currently one of the most successful schools.
		At the end of the Lent Half Eton always has a substantial entry for the HSBC National Schools Eton Fives Championships, which are held in rotation at Shrewsbury.
	www.etoncollege.com /eton.asp?di=203 (320 words)

	Eton Fives
		Eton Fives is a hand-ball game played as doubles in a three-sided court, in which the object is to force the other team to fail to hit the ball off the walls, and most especially to hit the ball into the 'pepper-box' between the buttress and step.
		The players wear padded leather gloves as the ball is quite hard, being made of rubber and cork.
		Note to a further writer: this is a brief introduction (http://www.etonfives.co.uk/about.fives/brief.introduction.html) which may be useful, this is a history (http://www.etonfives.co.uk/about.fives/brief.history.html), this is an Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Fives in general (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=35077), and so on...
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/et/Eton_Fives.html (99 words)

	Fives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that Rugby Fives, Eton Fives be merged into this article or section.
		Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racket sports.
		In Eton Fives the ball is softer and lighter, and the gloves are fairly thin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fives (738 words)

	Education \| Eton? Bring 'em on
		Now, Eton Fives may well sound like the sort of fanciful boarding school fieldsport dreamed up by JK Rowling, but it is in fact a bona fide court-based game, not unlike squash - but without rackets.
		It was originally played in the area lying between two buttresses of the Eton College chapel, and the courts today replicate the same architectural shape, having a step across the middle, a buttress protruding from the left-hand wall and several ledges.
		Having played Fives at school and then at Oxford, (he is the national champion, and was indeed the first person to win championships of both Eton Fives and Rugby Fives) he wondered whether his own students might enjoy the game.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4886652-110908,00.html (977 words)

	Eton tourist information - TourUK
		Eton Wick, a modern residential area, lies a mile westward of the town and is separated from it by an open area of land known as South Field.
		Eton lies about two miles north of Windsor Castle but although the school is popular with the Royal Family Princes William and Harry are the only sons of a future British monarch to have attended Eton.
		Eton is also famous for the 'Eton Wall Game', a hybrid of rugby and football, and 'Eton Fives', a handball game.
	www.touruk.co.uk /berkshire/Eton.htm (427 words)

	Edinburgh University Fives Club - What is Fives?
		Like squash, fives is played in a four-sided court with the general idea being to hit the ball above the bar across the front wall so that the opposition cannot return it before the second bounce.
		No doubt there were many local heroes, but the most famous early fives player was the Irish house-painter John Cavanagh, who was undefeated on the Fives Court in St. Martin's Street in London and died in 1819, to be celebrated later by William Hazlitt in 'The Indian Jugglers'.
		Rugby and Eton fives enjoyed considerable popularity and growth in schools both in the last decade of the nineteenth century and also in the nineteen thirties.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /edinburghfives/what_is.html (653 words)

	The Game
		The origin of the word 'fives' is uncertain, but it probably refers to the fingers, as in 'a bunch of fives'.
		The Laws of Eton Fives, replacing Ainger's rules, were published in March 1931 by the Eton Fives Association after consultation with all the fives-playing schools.
		The Hill Eton Fives Club was the first club which specifically set out the encourage those who had not played at school to take up the game.
	www.sport.cam.ac.uk /etonfives/the_game.htm (2253 words)

	School magazines Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		Eton and Westminster were at that time the largest schools in Britain, and the boys tended to come from more than averagely wealthy and sophisticated families.
		The Eton College Magazine claimed in 1832 that `all Eton publications have, in a pecuniary point of view, been unsuccessful,' but in fact the publisher of The Microcosm had paid its authors 50 [pounds sterling] for the copyright.
		Whereas both Westminster and Eton were famous for their floggings, there was no corporal punishment of any kind at Hazelwood; marks were given for good work and for voluntary labour, and were deducted as fines in cases of bad behaviour, following a trial by one's fellow pupils.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1590_v273/ai_21024491 (749 words)

	Oundle School: Oundle Unique: Fives
		Although the etymology of "fives" is still obscure, players have come to accept that the word means the fingers of the hand acting in unison as in a "bunch of fives".
		Fives courts, although similar to squash courts in concept, have stone rather than wooden floors and cement rather than plaster walls.
		Oundle's four courts, situated behind the Field Houses and adjacent to the Two Acre rugby pitch, were first used in 1938 (and then were completely enclosed in 1990); the courts are at present also being used by the Cambridge University Club, after their courts at Portugal Place were demolished during re-development of the area.
	www.oundleschool.org.uk /unique/ou_fives.php (308 words)

	Eton Hotel
		Eton Fives, one code of the British game of Fives, is a hand-ball game, similar to Rugby Fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court.
		Eton College boards approximately 1,200 boys between the ages of 13 and 18 (roughly 250 in each year) who enjoy some outstanding facilities at a cost of over £20,000 (GBP) a year.
		Eton is a town in Berkshire, England, lying on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor and connected to it by Windsor Bridge.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/57/eton-hotel.html (1435 words)

	Queens' College Cambridge - Eton Fives
		Fives is a game played with gloved hands and a hard, cork ball ñ a scaled-down version of squash without the rackets.
		An Eton Fives court is modelled on the side wall of the chapel at Eton, and thus has many ledges around the court, with a large buttress jutting out from the left-hand wall; the game thus requires considerable skill and great accuracy in placing the ball.
		The Eton Fives season in Cambridge is effectively a warm-up for the Varsity Match at Eton in February, and this year was no exception.
	www.queens.cam.ac.uk /default.asp?MIS=698 (480 words)

	FIVES - Online Information article about FIVES
		At fives he must send a service that hand-out can take easily; indeed hand-out can refuse to take any service that he does not like, and if he fails to return the ball above the line no stroke is counted.
		After the service has been returned either of the opponents returns the ball if he can, and so on, each side and either member of it returning the ball above the line alternately till one side or the other hits it below the line or out of court.
		The rules as to service, taking the balls, andc., are the same as in Eton Fives.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FAT_FLA/FIVES.html (1401 words)

	Harrow Association
		Eton, having had a fairly ordinary season, had nothing to lose, while Harrow had to guard against complacency.
		On a benign, easy-paced wicket, Eton knew they had kept Harrow to within reasonable limits, and started their innings with optimism.
		When Querl achieved his second run out, Eton were 191 for 8, but even then Botros hit 15 off a Harper over, the 53rd of the innings, to keep Eton in with a shout.
	www.harrowassociation.com /html/newsevents/news/lords06 (574 words)

	King Edward's School - Prospectus - Sports - Eton Fives
		King Edward's School's Eton Fives courts are regularly used on both a formal and informal basis.
		Training sessions led by a well-qualified coach take place after school and there are approximately 12 matches in a season, culminating in the Schools' Fives Championships at the end of March.
		At adult level, KES is well represented in the fives world, often supplying the Fives captains of both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
	www.kes.bham.sch.uk /prospectus/etonfives.html (150 words)

	City of London School for Boys - Eton Fives
		Meanwhile the second pair of Roman Heindorff and Deepan Patel got off to a shaky start, narrowly missing the opportunity of progressing to the latter stages of the main tournament with a very close three gamer against a pair from St. Olaves school.
		As the game progressed, other matches finished, until this was the last game on Shrewsbury's 14 Eton Fives courts.
		However, the boys fought back and were victorious with a 12-6 score in the third game, although being nearly 7pm they had to eat dinner on their own as everybody else had gone.
	www.clsb.org.uk /Ex_Curric/Sport/Fives/index3.html (194 words)

	Tim Dowling tries Eton Fives \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		It's hardly surprising I never learned this rather specific form of handball, played between two buttresses against the wall of Eton College Chapel, or on a court which recreates that space's eccentric dimensions, most of them in the grounds of other boarding schools.
		I go along to open night with my friend Sam, who has actually played Fives here before, and my 11-year-old son Barnaby, who has come to watch but is soon drafted in to make up a foursome with an instructor.
		As we familiarise ourselves with the two-tiered court and the weird rules, our instructor keeps calling out "Lucky!", which I soon realise is an abbreviated form of "Unlucky!", and is largely directed at me, his team-mate.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1787160,00.html (349 words)

	Fives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are lucky enough to have one of the best Fives courts facilities in the country, where many national competitions are held.
		There are three types of Fives - Eton, Rugby and Winchester.
		The game is fast and very rewarding and every new boy will have a chance to play the game in his first year.
	www.sherborne.org /sports/fives.htm (83 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the etymology of "fives" is still obscure, players have come to accept that it derives from the games being played with the fingers of the hand acting as a "bunch of fives".
		The game was played at public schools, apparently without rules until the Eton Fives Association published "the first authoritative set of laws" in 1931.
		The difference at Eton to any other school or cathedral cloister, was that at Eton one bay formed by the buttresses was quite different to all the others.
	www.rgshw.com /sport/fives/origins.htm (245 words)

	www.bunyan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Windsor and Eton Fives Club (WEFC) is, as the name suggests, an Eton Fives playing social club who meet to play regularly in a variety of league and friendly matches using the Eton Fives Courts at Eton College as their home venue.
		Most of the people who play for this particular Fives club are too slow, too broken down or too ruined by alcohol to be terribly good, but we nonetheless thoroughly enjoy getting tired and ever-so-slightly fitter by playing this very sociable sport.
		Regardless of the general standard of play, we are one of the most sociable groups to field a team in the Eton Fives world and would gladly welcome any novices or 'Old Hands' - pun intended - who would like to come along for matches or just a knockabout on a weekday evening.
	www.bunyan.com /wefc.htm (232 words)

	Derby Moor fives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The website of the Rugby Fives Association (www.rfa.org.uk) has details of where courts are to be found.
		There are two basic kinds: Rugby Fives and Eton Fives, so-called because the game originated in, and was formalised at, these two schools.
		Derby Moor Fives plays Rugby Fives, which is a form of handball played on a court with four walls.
	www.derbymoorfives.org /faqs (1077 words)

	CU Fives Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are now no Rugby Fives courts in Cambridge except for a single court at the Perse School, which the undergraduates use for practice by kind permission of the Headmaster.
		The first was by Peter Ridgeon, Chairman of the County Badminton Association and coach to the Cambridge Badminton Squad, who spoke of the history of the building.
		Those Rugby Fives players who played the last ever games on Court Number One were Joe Gribble, Bob Dolby, David Hebden, Tim Caroe and Paddy d'Ancona (see photo).
	www.cu-sparrows.org.uk /portugal.htm (391 words)

	Column 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This entry from the college website is interesting: 'The Eton wall game is exceptionally exhausting and is far more skilful than might appear to the uninitiated.
		The skill consists in the remorseless application of pressure and leverage as one advances inch by painful inch through a seemingly impenetrable mass of opponents.
		We've decided to kill off the fives farrago, but not before one last ambit claim for the most remote fives court on Earth, from Paul Smith, of Wahroonga.
	www.smh.com.au /handheld/articles/2006/11/16/1163266709461.html (490 words)

	James Zug: Clio's Corner #5 - Norman Bramhall
		The school's racquets champion in 1868 and "keen on squash," Dunedin described the dormitory yards and other colorfully-named spots in the town of Harrow where squash was a daily event: Monkey's, Bradley's, Vanity Watson's, Butler's and Young Vaughan's.
		He noted that Eton fives, with its many obstacles, "took on fairly well" after the courts were opened in 1865, but Rugby fives, with its plain court, was scorned by Harrovians.
		So this was the scene: on some gray, wintry day in late January 1865, exactly one hundred and thirty-six years ago, two young boys of Harrow walked into a Rugby fives court with their rubber ball and "spat" racquets and first played the game of squash.
	www.squashtalk.com /html/columns/zug6.htm (1490 words)

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	Marlborough CollegeFives
		Fives has been played at Marlborough for over 100 years and is open to boys and girls of all ages as a sports option in the Michaelmas and Lent terms.
		The Rugby Fives Association The Eton Fives Association Hand Ball Supplies
		The College has four indoor Rugby Fives courts and two Eton Fives courts.
	www.marlboroughcollege.org /col_Fives.aspx (198 words)

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