 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...snotch, a recommence takes place, arranging which gives the parties time to take breath. Seven or nine notches are the game, and these it will sometimes...competitors and townsmen are surprising. Indeed, it is very animating to see twenty or thirty youths, stripped to the skin, and displaying the various energies... | |
 | thomas tusser - 1878 - 392 pages
...snotch. At the loss of each of these the game recommences after a breathing time. Seven or nine snotches are the game, and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win. Sometimes a large football was used, and the game was then called " kicking camp" and if played with... | |
 | Thomas Tusser - Agriculture - 1878 - 400 pages
...snotch. At the loss of each of these the game recommences after a breathing time. Seven or nine snatches are the game, and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win. Sometimes a large football was used, and the game was then called " k1cking camp," and if played with... | |
 | Thomas Tusser - Agriculture - 1878 - 392 pages
...snatch. At the loss of each of these the game recommences after a breathing time. Seven or nine snatches are the game, and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win. Sometimes a large football was used, and the game was then called " kicking camp," and if played with... | |
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1863 - 390 pages
...a recommencement takes place, arranging which gives the parties time to take breath. Seven or nine notches are the game, and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win. This game is a most noble and manly sport on the whole, little, if at all, inferior to cricket. The... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1801 - 474 pages
...snotch. At the loss of each of these the game recommences, after a breathing time. Seven or nine snotches are the game, and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win. At times a large football was used, and the game was then called ' kicking camp ' ; and if played with... | |
 | Robert W. Malcolmson - History - 1979 - 216 pages
...snotch, a recommence takes place, arranging which gives the parties time to take breath. Seven or nine notches are the game - and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win.* A football was used for the modified game of 'kicking camp' and shoes were worn for what was quaintly... | |
 | Robert W. Malcolmson - History - 1979 - 216 pages
...snotcH, a recommence takes place, arranging which gives the parties time to take breath. Seven or nine notches are the game - and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win.5 A football was used for the modified game of 'kicking camp' and shoes were worn for what was... | |
 | John Greaves Nall - English language - 2006 - 236 pages
...snotch. At the loss of each of these the game recommences after a breathing time. Seven or nine snotches are the game, and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win. It is a noble and manly sport. The eagerness and emulation excited in the competitors and townsmen are surprising.... | |
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... to carry, not throw, it between the goals. A holder of the ball caught with it in his possession loses a snotch. At the loss of each of these the game recommences after a breathing time. Seven or nine snotches are the game, and these it will sometimes... 