Reading Observer 08-1920

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OHLY A .. FRIENDLY" GAME.
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game of football, and
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fri endly aQ:O.
gammThe
m~v centuTies
by the va" , 18 ;Rac\Dr of
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"Hoot-ball "'IIVaS,. ~1ar game. ~n..d ~t lf8.a of
a -.ery ;oogh vanety....;u, g.".,al- hacking, trip,

ping, and charging t~. oPI!O~t4!. 'I~ No ~der
I tried to aboll:ib Jt, deoIanng It ""M
.. mee'kcr (or.o, lam'Dg ilian .making able. the ttser''''
ih....,r' 1n mf book on ,' The England

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Sbakespooril' I have t<lld ~ rh>ry of' a 'fQOt.b&ll
match ~t North" Moreton, m B~re. as re~

• ealed ~Y nn acoount of a (6rrible aIf.lr 'fbI h~
"oned 'P 1598 :rho ent>-y ;n the Tegiar ~.
t he bU:Ju of two men, RiOOard ""d John

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and st.a:.tes : . These two men ..,..ere
(;unier Ouni.el's '.,n:oes and "the ' G.;Ogon'...
togetber Qy 'Y. y _ f..",) at
Gunter d",... lUI d"!<~",, aDd broke
beads, and Ihey rued 'bofJo within '
Gunter
afteT ' Sad to relAte,
of the pa:rJili Dnubtleu ho was

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~va.ge gnrrto HIs, fIOns ftlut the Gregone.
playmg fiercely )II the seMIIn.'- He ee...;r _~ PoYe
ovortbmW'll bv theIr oppooent6. Blld feanng fqr
t hetr ll"'cs and earned a.way by es:Cltem&n~. diew
hI!. d~ger and struck th e fatal bloWl;- ThtS IS a.
cmious 1'evelation of the fierceness of Ehza~n
J'ootball. :whtch 1.8 bo~e out by many oontemper-

ary Wl'lten-Baroi.y.

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FOOTBALL
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111 tho DtvislOn
(League) match' at. N e~ I ,ii~..,i'd~'j
al'1d in t.he "Southern Le.agll,e m&tdt aga.ulst _Gil. I'
lingh,am at Elm P ark, respectlvelYr to-do.y
(Saturday) are pubJished on another pa~ in the

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noteO by H F P
The bme a.rranged ' lor
latter ..lDatcll u 330 pm, and a good gate 111
antiCipated l'he klck·off at Newport 118 a:1ao
timed for 3 30
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IMtead of the ",.tch againot Gillingham on
w.edn-iai=- the first En,v.;.b I.e,,!!,10 ·match
(Dimioo <IlL) to be pl&yod ' ai Elm' Pm thIS
8I88OD-.be~ due to oontmenoe 10 the a.ftlemoon
as dSJ olUStomary, tho tlDHP fixed far' the 1Cck·oft
.u -6·P... m.. Thue it wiH be })C*lble tor qppqrtera;
o~r than},hooe who havo " hall,holia.y oxi :Wed.
lleod.yo, to witoeso tlUo matoh.

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