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wall game
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wall game
n
(Team Sports, other than specified) a type of football played at Eton against a wall
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It's a game we should win because no-one else will know how to play it" - " Old Etonian and Tory MP David Heathcoat-Amory saying that the Eton Wall Game should be included in the Olympics.
They Said What? by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Not far from Laxton is the double village of Haxey and Westwood, where an archaic, vast and violent game is played every Old Christmas Day (January 6th), roughly resembling football, but with rules that fox Mr Askwith: perhaps he should try the Shrove Tuesday fracas at Ashbourne--or, indeed, the Eton Wall Game.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF RURAL ENGLAND by Wedd, George / Contemporary Review
Players will pile in and rugby will come to resemble the Eton Wall Game.
Forget the laws of Stellenbosch, it's the up-and-under that needs a ... by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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