Club-ball

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Game Club-ball
Game Family Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
Regions Britain
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Invented No
Description

per Strutt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.

Collins, "Popular Sports" (1935) says (without citing a source) that club ball was similar to Single wicket cricket.

Sources

Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), pages 104-105.

Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 105

Comment

In 1363 King Edward III of England ordered that all men should, in their leisure time, practice archery (valuable for national defense) and forbade the "hurling of stones, loggats, quoits, handball, football, club ball, cambuc, cockfighting, and other games of no value.” "club ball" and "cambuc" are not further defined, but it has been suggested that cambuc is a game similar to modern field hockey. [ba]

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