original 1930 translation “Throw yourself against him” (Age, objice te illi).
France circa 1750
King Henry IV of England also presented one of the earliest documented uses of the English word “football”, in 1409, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for “foteball”.[33][37]
There is also an account in Latin from the end of the 15th century of football being played atCawston, Nottinghamshire. This is the first description of a “kicking game” and the first description of dribbling: “[t]he game at which they had met for common recreation is called by some the foot-ball game. It is one in which young men, in country sport, propel a huge ball not by throwing it into the air but by striking it and rolling it along the ground, and that not with their hands but with their feet… kicking in opposite directions” The chronicler gives the earliest reference to a football pitch, stating that: “[t]he boundaries have been marked and the game had started.[33]
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