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    4932°N 0.6078°W / 51.4932; -0.6078 The Eton wall game is a game that originated at and is still played at Eton College. It is played on a strip of ground...
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  • The Field Game is one of two codes of football devised and played at Eton College. The other is the Eton Wall Game. The game is like association football...
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  • Wall game can refer to different games Eton wall game, famously played only at Eton The Wall Game, a UK children's game show on ITV during the 1980s Any...
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    Eton fives, a derivative of the British game of fives, is a handball game, similar to Rugby fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. The object...
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  • List of ball games (redirect from Ball game)
    cricket and baseball. Invasion games, such as football and basketball. Net and wall games, such as volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash...
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    of field hockey, rugby and the Eton wall game. Shinny is an informal version of ice hockey. Shinty is a Scottish game now played primarily in the Highlands...
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    Dodgeball (redirect from Bombardment (game))
    from the moment it leaves a player's hand up until it touches the floor, wall, or ceiling, when it becomes "dead". If a player is hit by an opponent's...
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    sports such as the Eton Wall Game are not usually referred to as rugby, which is considered specific to games evolved from the game played at the private...
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    Islands Games still played at UK public (private) schools: Eton field game Eton wall game Rugby football Harrow football Winchester College football Keepie...
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    Net and wall games are court games where either a net separates the opponents or a wall serves to reflect the ball to the opponent. The object of these...
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    often loosely applied to the fronton (the open-walled playing area) where matches take place. The game, whose name means "merry festival" in Basque, is...
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  • well as Harrow football, Winchester College football, the Eton wall game and the Eton field game. Rossall hockey was referenced in the first issue of the...
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    Cricket (redirect from Cricket (game))
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with...
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    Ulama (Spanish pronunciation: [uˈlama]) is a ball game played in Mexico, currently experiencing a revival from its home in a few communities in the state...
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    first weekend of June. Eton also observes St. Andrew's Day, on which the Eton wall game is played. Until 18 December 2010, Eton College was an exempt charity...
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    other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he invented a new game in which players would pass a ball to teammates and try...
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    (also called chase, tig, it, tiggy, tips, tick, and tip) is a playground game involving one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag"...
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    Kho kho (redirect from Kho kho (game))
    that dates to ancient India. It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian subcontinent after kabaddi. Kho kho is played on a rectangular...
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    scored in the St. Andrew's Day match at Eton College, the last time this has happened in the St. Andrew's Day game (the most important match of the year)...
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    batting team may score, but teams have equal opportunities in both roles. The game is counted rather than timed. The action starts when a player on the fielding...
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    Kickball (redirect from Kickball game)
    United Kingdom) is a team sport and league game, similar to baseball. Like baseball, it is a safe haven game in which one team tries to score by having...
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    teams of seven players, originating in ancient India. The objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a "raider", to run into...
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    YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton, as a pastime to preferably be played...
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    Pato (redirect from Pato (game))
    The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 December 2012. Ocaranza Zavalía, Nono. "Reglamento oficial del juego de pato" [Official rulebook of the game of pato]...
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    Whirlyball (section The game)
    does a 360-degree roll-off turn and continues momentum. Wall Bouncing: Running into the wall and spinning around to advance oneself or lose an opponent...
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    target, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground. The game is normally and best played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public...
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    Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury schools. They were not universally...
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  • Metro footy Nine-a-side footy Rec footy English school games Eton College Field game Wall game Harrow football Gaelic football Ladies' Gaelic football Gridiron...
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    started playing with rackets and a tennis ball hitting it against a wall. This new game, with its first modern pelota court, built in Fernando Torreblanca’s...
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    Ice hockey (section Game)
    notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game was played on March 3, 1875. Some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the...
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