Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The early history of games like football in Scotland is uncertain, but it is possible that variations reached Scotland from France or England. [1] Games of "football" were played in Scotland in the Middle Ages, but medieval football bears little resemblance to association football (soccer).
Medieval football is a modern term used for a wide variety of the localised informal football games which were invented and played in England during the Middle Ages. Alternative names include folk football, mob football and Shrovetide football. These games may be regarded as the ancestors of modern codes of football, and by comparison with ...
The Ba' Game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, primarily in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year. Ba' is essentially mob football, or village football, where two parts of a town have to get a ball to goals on their respective sides. The two sides are called the Uppies or the Downies, depending on ...
In the Early Middle Ages, Scotland was overwhelmingly an oral society and education was verbal rather than literary. After the "de-gallicisation" of the Scottish court from the twelfth century, an order of bards took over the functions of poets, musicians and historians, often attached to the court of a lord or king, and passing on their ...
1314 — Nicholas de Farndone, Lord Mayor of the City of London issued a decree banning football. [18] 1349 — King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning "...handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games". [19] 1424 — the Scottish Parliament of James I banned 'fute-ball' in the Football Act ...
In Scotland, football games were common enough for the Scottish Parliament to attempt to outlaw them on several occasions. An act of 1457, under James II , is typical. [ 2 ] The act was principally intended to encourage archery practice but decreed that football, and also golf , should be simultaneously discouraged.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Association football is one of the national sports of Scotland [1] and the most popular sport in the country. [2] There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of these include carrying the ball and passing by hand, and despite bearing the name "football" bear little resemblance to association football.