The Early History of Football: Legends

There are many strange legends about the early history of football - but there are very few written records.

Which of these stories do you think are:

a) true? b) probably true? c) possibly true? d) certainly not true?

• The Eskimos also played a game like football - on ice!. They used a ball filled with grass and animal hair. Games were played between different villages. Sometimes the goals were fifteen kilometres apart.

• A Roman man was killed whilst having a shave when a ball was kicked into a barber's shop

• Roman soldiers played football - but used the skulls of their enemies as balls.

• An English village beat a Roman team on the pitch and then in battle in 217 AD.

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