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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.
Atherstone Ball Game in Warwickshire. The Shrove Tuesday Ball Game is played annually along the line of an old Roman road that runs through the town known as Long Street. The game has been played for over 800 years, dating back to the reign of King John from 1199 to 1216.
The ball played in the 813th Atherstone Ball game Shrove Tuesday 21 February 2012. An annual tradition in Atherstone is the Shrove Tuesday Ball Game played on a public highway with large crowds. The game celebrated its 800th anniversary in 1999.
A winner has been crowned following the eagerly awaited return of the annual Atherstone Ball Game. The event, which takes place annually on Shrove Tuesday, honours a match played between ...
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 ...
The Atherstone Ball Game in Warwickshire dates back to 1199, while the Royal Shrovetide Football Match in Derbyshire has some unusual rules.
Some of the other better-understood games, a few of which are still played, include the Ba' game (ba' being an abbreviation of "ball"), the Atherstone Ball Game, the Sedgefield Ball Game, Bottle-kicking (usually with a leather bottle as a substitute for the ball), [31] Caid (an Irish name for various ball games and an animal-skin ball), Camp ...
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