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The Atherstone Ball Game is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams competed for a bag of gold, and which was won by Warwickshire.
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 .
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The annual Atherstone Ball Game descended into chaos as violence broke out among players. Played every Shrove Tuesday, the “football” game - which dates back to medieval times - involves ...
Chaos League is a 2004 fantasy-based sports management game developed by Cyanide Studios and published by Digital Jesters.The game is a spin on American football, the violence of the Medieval football with no rules and rugby-style of sports yet set in a fantasy world with teams being made up of fantasy races such as dwarves, elves, orcs and undead, along with the use of magic and other ...
Cnapan (alternative spellings criapan, knapan or knappan) is a Welsh form of Celtic medieval football. [1] [2] The game originated in, and seems to have remained largely confined to, the western counties of Wales, especially Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
Pigskin 621 A.D. is an arcade game released in 1990 by Midway Manufacturing under the "Bally Midway" label. [1] One player can battle the computer, or two players can battle head-to-head. Two teams compete to score as many touchdowns as possible in the tradition of American football , but actual play is more similar to rugby football .
Example of a ball used in the Kirkwall Ba game on display in the National Football Museum, Manchester. 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 ...