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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_Cymro" data-source="post: 361340" data-attributes="member: 40909"><p>Ah yes heard of this beauty whilst studying Sports History.</p><p></p><p>In Ceredigion was commonly played in Llandysul or more known to have been. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/02/06/020639_7115cbd6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Remember going on a school trip in primary school around the area and remember a teacher telling us about Cnapan and its origins in Llandysul. Saying it was played there and that one of the goalines was to cross the parish gates and score the ball past it. It was usually played between Parishes and the goaline areas were of course the church gates. As Dull said it involved the entire village and it was brutal, games would last from early morning till the light had faded and tackling was often high. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.postaprint.co.uk/ilnimages/S902346.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><em><a href="http://www.postaprint.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.postaprint.co.uk</a></em></p><p></p><p>RUGBY FOOTBALL - THE UNIVSERITIES v LONDON AND THE SOUTH AT RICHMOND. An excellent double page, one of the earliest engravings of Rugger. Scare: From the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News. [A ball-game resembling rugby football was a game played by ancient Greeks called episkuros (Greek: επίσκυρος). In Wales such a sport is called cnapan or "criapan," and has medieval roots. The old Irish predecessor of rugby may be caid. The Cornish called it "hurling to goals" which dates back to the bronze age, the West country called it "hurling over country" (neither should to be confused with Gaelic hurling in which the ball is hit with a stick called a hurley or hurl, not carried), East Anglians "Campball", the French "La Soule" or "Chole" (a rough-and-tumble cross-country game). English villages were certainly playing games of 'fute ball' during the 1100s. English boarding schools would certainly have developed their own variants of this game as soon as they were established - the Eton Wall Game being one example.</p><p>The invention of 'Rugby' was therefore not the act of playing early forms of the game at Rugby School or elsewhere but rather the events which led up to its codification.</p><p>The game of football which was played at Rugby School between 1750 and 1859 permitted handling of the ball, but no-one was allowed to run with it in their hands towards the opposition's goal. There was no fixed limit to the number of players per side and sometimes there were hundreds taking part in a kind of enormous rolling maul. The innovation of running with the ball was introduced some time between 1859 and 1865. William Webb Ellis has been credited with breaking the local rules by running forwards with the ball in a game in 1823. Shortly after this the Victorian mind turned to establishing written rules for the sports which had earlier just involved local agreements, and boys from Rugby School produced the first written rules for their version of the sport in 1870.</p><p>Around this time the influence of Dr Thomas Arnold, Rugby's headmaster, was beginning to be felt around all the other boarding schools, and his emphasis on sport as part of a balanced education naturally encouraged the general adoption of the Rugby rules across the country, and, ultimately, the world. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/scans/scans141.htm" target="_blank">http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/scans/scans141.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_Cymro, post: 361340, member: 40909"] Ah yes heard of this beauty whilst studying Sports History. In Ceredigion was commonly played in Llandysul or more known to have been. [IMG]http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/02/06/020639_7115cbd6.jpg[/IMG] Remember going on a school trip in primary school around the area and remember a teacher telling us about Cnapan and its origins in Llandysul. Saying it was played there and that one of the goalines was to cross the parish gates and score the ball past it. It was usually played between Parishes and the goaline areas were of course the church gates. As Dull said it involved the entire village and it was brutal, games would last from early morning till the light had faded and tackling was often high. [IMG]http://www.postaprint.co.uk/ilnimages/S902346.jpg[/IMG] [I][url]http://www.postaprint.co.uk[/url][/I] RUGBY FOOTBALL - THE UNIVSERITIES v LONDON AND THE SOUTH AT RICHMOND. An excellent double page, one of the earliest engravings of Rugger. Scare: From the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News. [A ball-game resembling rugby football was a game played by ancient Greeks called episkuros (Greek: επίσκυρος). In Wales such a sport is called cnapan or "criapan," and has medieval roots. The old Irish predecessor of rugby may be caid. The Cornish called it "hurling to goals" which dates back to the bronze age, the West country called it "hurling over country" (neither should to be confused with Gaelic hurling in which the ball is hit with a stick called a hurley or hurl, not carried), East Anglians "Campball", the French "La Soule" or "Chole" (a rough-and-tumble cross-country game). English villages were certainly playing games of 'fute ball' during the 1100s. English boarding schools would certainly have developed their own variants of this game as soon as they were established - the Eton Wall Game being one example. The invention of 'Rugby' was therefore not the act of playing early forms of the game at Rugby School or elsewhere but rather the events which led up to its codification. The game of football which was played at Rugby School between 1750 and 1859 permitted handling of the ball, but no-one was allowed to run with it in their hands towards the opposition's goal. There was no fixed limit to the number of players per side and sometimes there were hundreds taking part in a kind of enormous rolling maul. The innovation of running with the ball was introduced some time between 1859 and 1865. William Webb Ellis has been credited with breaking the local rules by running forwards with the ball in a game in 1823. Shortly after this the Victorian mind turned to establishing written rules for the sports which had earlier just involved local agreements, and boys from Rugby School produced the first written rules for their version of the sport in 1870. Around this time the influence of Dr Thomas Arnold, Rugby's headmaster, was beginning to be felt around all the other boarding schools, and his emphasis on sport as part of a balanced education naturally encouraged the general adoption of the Rugby rules across the country, and, ultimately, the world. [url]http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/scans/scans141.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
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