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Show Football in Olden Times. What would be thought to-day of a game of football in which 500 or 600 players were engaged on each side, and how would we like to be in the thick of it when teams of this number num-ber were rushing after the ball? When we remember also that few rules governed gov-erned the play, and that, moreover, a proportion of the players were horsemen, horse-men, the events that marked the progress of the game must have been of sufficiently stirring a character to satisfy the most greedy seeker after icitement. |