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Show FOOTBALL ON HORSEBACK. Football has been played out of doors, under cover and in the water for some time past, and Brooklyn now comes to the front with football on horseback. This novel sport was recently inaugurated at the Riding and Driving club, and proved very exciting and attractive, both to the players and to a large audience of Brooklyn society people. Alexander Berri, one of the directors of the club, introduced the sport, and the rules were drawn up by W.T. Bull, the famous football expert. The teams consisted of five men on a side, and the regulation Rugby football used was touched against a plank six yards long nailed to the wall eight feet from the ground when a goal was made. Kicking the ball on the ground, tackling a player when he hasn't the ball and passing the ball forward are prohibited. The game consists of two halves, ten minutes long, with five minutes of intermission. Ponies are used by the players, who frequently get falls that make the building tremble, to say nothing of the friends of the men who take the headers. |
