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Foot Ball at Rugby, 1845. Creator: Smyth.

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Foot Ball at Rugby, 1845. Schoolboys playing rugby football at the public school where the game was invented in about 1845, although forms of football in which the ball was carried and tossed date back to medieval times. 'This truly English game is played in perfection at the fine Elizabethan school, at Rugby, in Warwickshire. Our artist has sketched a match, at the moment of a "skrummage;" the buildings in the background being the Chapel and part of the School-house...Pepys, in his Memoirs, 1664-5, says, "January 2, to my Lord Brouncker's by appointment in the Piazza, Covent garden: the street full of foot balls, it being a great frost." Foot ball was mostly played by "sturdie plowmen, lustie, strong, and bold..."'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM21A07_338

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Droits gérés

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33,5Mo (2,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 20,0cm / 4960 x 2363 (300dpi)

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England people male boy boys child children sport man men education playing guy British school schoolchildren Victorian century Britain schoolchild football newspapers press open space rugby scrum Warwickshire football pitch playing field B&W schoolboy schoolboys public school rugger 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century private school The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper engraving Samuel Samuel Pepys Pepys Smyth playing an instrument