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This term was made popular by the paper chase scene in Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and is still used in modern hashing and in club names such as Thames Hare and Hounds. Shrewsbury continued to use fox hunting terms, as evidenced in Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh (1903). In this case the hare was a couple of boys who were called foxes".
The hare can move in any direction. The hounds win if they "trap" the hare so that it can no longer move. The hare wins if it "escapes" (gets past all the hounds by moving to the side of the hound[s] furthest back). If the hounds move side-to-side (i.e. vertically) ten times in a row, they are considered to be "stalling", and the hare wins.
Hare and Hounds may refer to: Paper chase (game), a running race game where a "hare" player leaves a trail of paper for the "hounds" to follow; Hare and Hounds (board game), a strategy board game where three hounds attempt to trap a hare; Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, the cross-country running club of the University of Cambridge
The Hare & Hounds (occasionally and commonly referred to as the Hare and Hounds) is a public house and music venue on the High Street in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, England. Originally built in 1820 and remodelled to its current form in 1907, [1] the Hare & Hounds is Grade II listed, [2] as it retains many original Art Nouveau internal ...
Cambridge University Hare and Hounds (CUH&H) is the University of Cambridge cross country running club. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been providing training and competitions for its members since 7 February 1880.
The Hare and Hounds is a Young's public house at Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is Grade II listed. [1] A former coaching inn, it was built by an unknown architect in the early 19th century. [1] It has a 1930s interior and an extensive garden. [2]
Thames Hare and Hounds is the oldest adult cross-country running club in the world, based on the Roehampton end of Wimbledon Common, adjacent to Richmond Park, and draws runners from across south-west London. Both the men's and women's teams compete in the Surrey Cross Country League, division one; the club also fields teams in road races and ...
The precursor to the Old Melburnians Athletic Club (O.M.A.C.) was the Melburnian Hare & Hounds club, which organised various runs and competitions. Started in 1892, it was one of the four founding clubs of the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association (V.A.A.A.) (now Athletics Victoria) in 1891.