School: Kilbride (roll number 11793)

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   eighteen players on each side. The players wore nailed boots blouses and trousers. There were four goal posts. Each game lasted on hour and a half. There was another game played called "Rolling" This was played by rolling by roling a metal ball about four stone weight along the road The players had to roll it with their feet and whichever got nearest to a without going into the ditch won.

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2. Games

   

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   Long ago the football teams were twenty one each side and the field was two hundred yards long
   There were four sticks at each end of the field the ones on the right for a goal and the ones on the left for a point
   The players were dressed in jerseys and knicks an wooden clogs

   

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3. Games

   

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   Long ago they used to play cricket football weight throwing and hand ball They used to play football in a field

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