Show FOOTBALLS FOOTBALL'S FAMILY TREE All nations have played football The ancients inflated ted a bladder or follis follis follis fol- fol lis and kicked it about In Greece there was the a game I played in much the same way as with us uS only by a larger number of persons persons per per- sons Then the Romans played a game called with both hands and feet which shows that even then tilen carrying the ball was per per- Here were the foundations of o f soccer and Rugby In the Philippines and Polynesia it is played with a light ball made of thin split fibers of bamboo ingeniously ingeni- ingeni interlaced The Eskimos play it with a ball made of strips of leather The Maoris Maoris of of New Zealand and the Faroe Islanders have a game of r native football East and west north and south we find football of one kind or another There can be little doubt that it r was passed on to Great Britain by bythe a. a the Romans from where they strove by conquering cast to throw the follis into each others other's goal Centuries before cricket was born in inthe inthe the south of England football was common in the north Tradition has hasIt hasit it that one of the early footballs was the skull of a Danish Invader kicked about on the at Chester on Shrove Tuesday Just before Lent Lent Lent- Outing a f |