Sports and Athletic Games
Description
This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff. Sheppard, reprinted by permission from the 'Times' (4 January 1928), 11 pp.; Keith Spence's article on bowls, extracted from 'Country Life' (27 April 1972), pp. 986-987; Edwin Cooper's article on archery in Northumberland, extracted from 'The Northumbrian' (April/May 1972), and mounted; Peter Nalder's article, 'Knur and Spell, and Similar and Allied Games', extracted from 'Traditional Topics' (March 1968), pp. 5-13; D. W. Masterson's article on a ball game played in ancient Mexico, extracted from 'Country Life' (10 October 1968), pp. 914-915; Cedric Venables's article, '100 Years of Schools Rugby', extracted from 'Country Life' (8 October 1970), p. 909; Celia Davies's article on ladies' cricket in the 18th and 19th centuries, extracted from 'Country Life' (19 April 1973), pp. 1046-1047; and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from the 'Yorkshire Post', 'Country Life', the 'Scotsman', and the 'Kelso Chronicle and Jedburgh Gazette', on knur and spell, trap and ball, pize-ball (a rounders-like game mostly confined to Yorkshire), the Fastern's E'en handball game at Jedburgh (played at Candlemas). File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | c3dd4c37 |
| IRN | 410811 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/15/1 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c3dd4c37 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | N: Sports, Games and Pastimes |
| Date | 1961-1974 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file with 1 pamphlet, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |