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	Eton - LoveToKnow 1911
		ETON, a town of Buckinghamshire, England, on the north (left) bank of the river Thames, opposite Windsor, within which parliamentary borough it is situated.
		In the sport of rowing Eton occupies a unique position among the public schools, and a large proportion of the oarsmen in the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat-race are alumni of the school.
		Another annual celebration is the occasion of the contest between collegers and oppidans at a peculiar form of football known as the wall game, from the fact that it is played against a wall bordering the college playing-field.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Eton (1154 words)

	Eton College
		The King's College of our Lady of Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to a small number of poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge.
		It is often suggested that the Duke of Wellington claimed "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton".
		The provenance for this is dubious: Wellington briefly attended Eton, for which he had no great love, in the late 18th century, when the school had no playing fields or organised team sports, and the phrase wsa first recorded three years after the Duke's death.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/et/Eton.html (307 words)

	Eton wall game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew's Day game which is played between a team of "Collegers" (scholarship holders) and a team of "Oppidans" (the rest of the students, who comprise most of the student body).
		The game is therefore chiefly characterised by this battle for a favourable tactical position.
		The Wall Game is organised entirely by boys, particularly by the Keepers of College Wall and Oppidan Wall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eton_Wall_Game (964 words)

	Eton - Shelley Sites/Sights - Scholarly Resources - Romantic Circles
		Eton College, in which Shelley enrolled in 1804, was of course easy to find, and most of the exteriors we photographed would have been familiar to him.
		In the area where the "Wall Game" (a sort of penny-pitch using a small ball) was played, two sections of the wall come together on a high rise of lawn that forms a natural amphitheater.
		This is where Eton students used to engage in a sort of trial by combat, working out their differences through fisticuffs (so rough that at least one child, a Shaftsbury heir, later died).
	www.rc.umd.edu /reference/misc/shelleysites/england/Eton/Eton.html (401 words)

	EFA: The Eccentric Sport of Eton Fives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They have the field game, a form of football with a bully and behinds; the wall game, played in earnest once a year between Collegers and Oppidians (never have young men been muddier); and they have their fives, which is not much less peculiar, though other schools reproduced it.
		While the boys at Eton waited outside the chapel for roll call, they threw balls against a wall where, at the foot of the stairs leading to the north door, there was a convenient space between two buttresses.
		The front wall, against which the hard little ball is hit as it is in squash, but by a gloved hand, contains a horizontal ledge 4ft 6in from the floor.
	www.etonfives.co.uk /articles/eccentric.game.html (634 words)

	Wall Game
		It is not known exactly when the Eton Wall Game was first played, but the first recorded game was in 1766.
		Players are not allowed to handle the ball, not allowed to let any part of their bodies except feet and hands touch the ground, not allowed to strike or hold their opponents, and there are also exceedingly strict ‘offside’ rules (no passing back and no playing in front); apart from that, almost anything goes.
		The Eton Wall Game is exceptionally exhausting and is far more skilful than might appear to the uninitiated.
	www.etoncollege.com /eton.asp?di=197 (607 words)

	150 Years of Fives at Eton
		Hitting a ball against a wall is a basic instinct of man and it is well known that by the twelfth century, ball games were being played in Europe.
		In the meantime, in 1931, the Keeper at Eton was writing "But now that Courts are built at Queens and at Cambridge, the visitors are, unlike recent years, in full practice." In 1938 the Eton and Harrow match became a 3 pairs a side match for the first time.
		After the war, in the 50s and 60s Eton had a remarkable record of Public School Winners and Finalists, so that it isn't surprising that when the Alan Barber Cup was introduced in 1966, that the Old Etonians were finalists in 1968 and winners in 1972 and 1973.
	www.etonfives.co.uk /schools/eton150.html (1811 words)

	THE HISTORY AND GAME OF FOOTBALL \| FIRLE CRICKET CLUB \| GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA HOUSE \| FIRLE BEACON \| RAM INN EAST SUSSEX ...
		The Roman game of Harpastu is believed to have been adapted from a team game known as "επισκυρος" (episkyros) or pheninda that is mentioned by Greek playwright, Antiphanes (388-311BC) and later referred to by Clement of Alexandria.
		These chaotic games would be played between neighbouring towns and villages in which an unlimited number of players on opposing teams would clash in a heaving mass of people struggling to drag an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town.
		The game was played up until January 1739 but it was revived in May 1930 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of this famous match and is still played as a tourist attraction today.
	www.budweiser-beer.net /football.htm (5750 words)

	Eton field game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Field Game is one of two codes of football devised and played at Eton College.
		The game is like soccer in some ways — the ball is round, but one size smaller than a standard football, and you are not allowed to pick it up — but the off-side rules - known as 'sneaking' - are more in keeping with rugby.
		It is the only game at Eton that virtually every boy plays, at least for his first three years in the school, and it occupies prime position in the games programme throughout the Lent Half.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eton_Field_Game (508 words)

	Claymores.com: American Football is a Breeze Compared to Eton Wall Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ETON schoolboy James Sherrard doesn't mind the rough and tumble of American football.
		"That game was videod by a parent and a copy was sent to head coach (Simon) Newnham at the GB squad and he decided to bring a few people down to Eton to watch us play.
		Everyone is squashed against the wall and legs are frquently grated against the stone.
	www.claymores.co.uk /printerfriendly.php?id=499_0_1_0_M (635 words)

	News - Stern Rugby Football Club
		The most famous, and widespread, legend on the founding of the game says the game originated at Rugby school in England, hence the name, when one of the pupils, a 16-year-old William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball during a game of soccer in 1823 and ran with it.
		Games are usually fast paced and high scoring with handling and good tackling at a premium.
		The IRB are the umbrella organisation of the international game, with the individual national rugby unions governing rugby - under the IRB laws - in their own countries, for example the South African Rugby Football Association (SARFU) who run the game in South Africa, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) who administer the game in England.
	pages.stern.nyu.edu /~rugby/news.php?novId=20 (796 words)

	Eton Orwell & Harry
		He makes the valid point that Orwell didn't particularly specifiy Eton when he wrote criticism of England's public schools in his classic essay THE LION AND THE UNICORN and actually gave it credit for allowing him to be himself.
		Orwell much preferred Eton to his prep school, St. Cyprian's, which was the object of his exaggerated essay SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS.
		And he certainly preferred Eton to Wellington, the school he first went to after coming in 14th on the Eton scholarship exams when only 13 made it in that year.
	www.orwelltoday.com /etonorwellharry.shtml (1429 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Harry survives life up against the Wall
		He emerged unscathed from the annual Wall Game at Eton College, but was unable to end the decades-long tradition that the match ends goalless.
		Players are allowed to push other players' faces into the red brick wall, but are not allowed to twist their hands while doing it, as that would be knuckling.
		The game, which is rumoured to be the inspiration for the game of Quidditch in the Harry Potter books, has been described as "open warfare" as well as "brutal, pointless and dangerous".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/25/neton25.xml (430 words)

	Eton Pilgrimage
		Then we returned to the car, put our stuff in the boot, and walked the couple of blocks to Eton College, the oldest and most prestigious school in England, whose student body is comprised of boys from royal, aristocratic and wealthy families who register their sons at birth.
		It was a game that made no sense to most people because it had a language of its own and was comprised of very few rules other than to get the ball into the other side's goal.
		It was called the Wall Game because it was played on a narrow patch of ground (full of mud when it rained) stretching the entire length of an old brick wall with goals at either end (one of which was a tree trunk).
	www.orwelltoday.com /orwelleton.shtml (2779 words)

	The Game
		The walls were built of sandstone to reproduce the effect of the chapel walls, but the distance between the front wall and the buttress was increased and the slop of the floor reduced.
		The side walls were extended, the buttress was increased in height and width but reduced in depth.
		The war did its best to kill the game but it survived thanks to a new set of players who were not content to end their playing days when they left school.
	www.sport.cam.ac.uk /etonfives/the_game.htm (2253 words)

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		And most strikingly, he ascribes a double game for bearing all your mean off -- and then says that the odds against this are a thousand to one against, since the game is usually won or lost some other way first.
		I have heard of a similar dice game which was called "Bogaziti." The main difference between it and the game you describe is that you don't have to score 800 to enter the game, and there is another combination that scores, that of rolling a "straight" or a "run" of consecutive numbers.
		While Willoughby's MS is post-period for the SCA (1660's), it sheds a lot of light onto the games of early modern England, and in many cases it's the earliest clear description of games that are referenced in the 16th century.
	www.pbm.com /pipermail/hist-games/2003.txt (17882 words)

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	www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Eton (130 words)

	Conference Center
		The game is likely to be a amalagamation of soccer and other games including the Eton Wall Game and Winchester football.
		The most famous and widespread legend on the founding of the game says the game originated at Rugby school in England, when one of the pupils, one William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball during a game of soccer in 1823 and ran with it.
		The game was delayed for several minutes as the medical team attended to Darwin, with the shadow of a possible serious neck injury hanging over the pitch.
	www.spring.net /yapp-bin/public/read/sports/59 (18809 words)

	Eton College @ UK Schools Guide 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He also provided for other boys to be taught at Eton, paying for their own maintenance.
		The numerous premises are scattered in the town of Eton and thus there is a close ‘town and gown’ relationship.
		There is a wide range of sports and games (including the Eton Wall Game and the Eton Field Game, both peculiar to the College) in which very high standards are achieved.
	www.schoolsguidebook.co.uk /schools/Eton_College.html (1126 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		He's known to be an extremely good sportsman, particularly in the fields of rugby, where he captained the school B team.
		He also played in the Eton Wall Game, the very famous Eton Wall Game, and also was a cricketer and a keen polo player.
		The way that he -- when he left the examination hall today, you can see probably in these pictures that he is not wearing the formal white tie and tails, which the students at Eton are required to wear as part of their uniform.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0306/12/lad.12.html (445 words)

	Yourlit.com -- George Orwell
		After a term at Wellington, Eric moved to Eton, where he was a King's Scholar from 1917 to 1921.
		During his time at the school, Eric made lifetime friendships with a number of future British intellectuals such as Cyril Connolly, the future editor of the Horizon magazine, in which many of Orwell's most famous essays were originally published.
		After finishing his studies at Eton, having no prospect of gaining a university scholarship, and his family's means being insufficient to pay his tuition, Eric joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
	www.yourlit.com /orwell.html (1983 words)

	Rallying is all about cumulative time, that is time taken to cover the various stages
		The game comes complete with the World Rally Championship season 2000, plus a single sample rally from an earlier era to cut your teeth on.
		FIA announcements all year long (that kept changing as well!) about how teams could nominate drivers for their teams in the 2004 season, kept the 2003 season in turmoil as drivers and teams jockeyed around trying to make plans and impress companies with limited budgets on who should end up driving with whom in 2004.
		I won't mention the Eton Wall Game, which even we English find a rather strange way to identify and nurture our future Prime Ministers and captains of industry.
	www.owzatgames.com /worldofrallying.htm (1296 words)

	Film footage found of young Orwell - theage.com.au
		A UK television station has showed what it says is the first film footage ever discovered of author George Orwell, showing him as a young student at England's prestigious school Eton, marching arm and arm with classmates.
		The footage was recently found in a film library by two researchers, Phil Windeatt and Jonathan Levi.
		The brief images, shot in 1921, show a vibrant and happy 18-year-old Orwell marching across the grounds of the private school with a group of fellow students on their way to a sports field, where they would play a ball game against a wall that was traditional at Eton.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/03/1062515435094.html (299 words)

	SOCCER FOOTBALL \| DAVID BECKHAM, PELE, ERIC CANTONA, GEORGE BEST, GARY LINNEKA
		literally means to kick away, thus implying that the game involved kicking a leather ball between players.
		Soccer is still formally referred to as association football and the school's premier team is called the association both formally and colloquially.
		The multicultural TV broadcaster SBS usually refers to the game as football, although the word soccer is used as well.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/football.htm (7040 words)

	Diana Princess of Wales - resources. Exhibition showing the life and work of Diana, the Princess of Wales
		He later attended the prestigious Eton College in Windsor.
		He has also participated in the Eton Wall Game.
		After finishing Eton, Prince Harry undertook a gap year, visiting Australia and Africa.
	www.dianacelebration.com /princes3.htm (447 words)

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