Games & Recreation Old Sports and Football Variants

[exe ex machina]

Old games of the old world....

Eton Fives...


Rugby Fives...


Winchester Fives...


Warminster Fives...


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Old world football codes that predate Rugby/Assoc....

Eton Wall Game...


Eton Field Game...


Winchester College Football...


Harrow Football...


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Also see this article, a number of very interesting ones....

List of Extinct Sports

 

[exe ex machina]

From the above article...

Austus..."mix" of aussie rules and gridiron...

 

[exe ex machina]

From the article above...

Universal Football...mix of rugby league and aussie rules...

 

[errant bounce]

Something I find pretty wild is how new organised sport is. obviously it aligns with plenty of things, railways and cheaper ways of writing and publishing texts, but there's basically no continued sport older than football/Aussie Rules/cricket.

Even wilder when you think about how quickly basketball and especially American football were picked up. the first Super Bowl was only in the 60s.

 

[Frank Bunn]