Surviving Mediæval ball games
The ball is hit into the air at the 2006 Royal Shrovetide Football match. (Photographer: Gary Austin.)
British Shrove Tuesday games
Alnwick in Northumberland
Ashbourne in Derbyshire (known as Royal Shrovetide Football)
Atherstone in Warwickshire
Corfe Castle in Dorset — The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers.
Haxey in Lincolnshire (the Haxey Hood, actually played on Epiphany)
Hurling the Silver Ball takes place at St Columb Major in Cornwall
Sedgefield in County Durham
In Scotland the Ba game ("Ball Game") is still popular around Christmas and Hogmanay at:
Duns, Berwickshire
Scone, Perthshire
Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands
Outside the UK
Calcio Fiorentino — a modern revival of Renaissance football from 16th century Florence.
Surviving public school games
Harrow football players after a game at Harrow School.
Eton field game
Eton wall game
Harrow football
Winchester College football
Recent inventions and hybrid games
Based on FA rules:
Cubbies
Three sided football
Triskelion
Keepie uppie(keep up) — is the art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
Footbag — is a small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of keepie uppie variations, including hacky sack (which is a trade mark).
Freestyle football — a modern take on keepie uppie where freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skill.
Based on rugby:
Scuffleball
Force ’em backs a.k.a. forcing back, forcemanback et c.
Hybrid games
Austus — a compromise between Australian rules and American football, invented in Melbourne during World War II.
Bossaball — mixes Association football and volleyball and gymnastics; played on inflatables and trampolines.
Footvolley — mixes Association football and beach volleyball; played on sand
Kickball — a hybrid of soccer and baseball, invented in the United States in about 1942.
Speedball (American) — a combination of American football, soccer, and basketball, devised in the United States in 1912.
Universal football — A hybrid of Australian rules and rugby league, trialled in Sydney in 1933.[25]
Volata — a game resembling Association football and European handball, devised by Italian fascist leader, Augusto Turati, in the 1920s.
Wheelchair rugby — also known as Murderball, invented in Canada in 1977. Based on ice hockey and basketball rather than rugby.
Wheelchair power tag rugby
Wheelchair rugby league
Tabletop games and other recreations
Based on Football (soccer):
Subbuteo
Blow football
Table football — also known as foosball, table soccer, babyfoot, bar football or gettone)
Fantasy football (soccer)
Button football — also known as Futebol de Mesa, Jogo de Botões
Penny football
Based on rugby:
Penny rugby
Based on American football:
Paper football
Blood Bowl
Fantasy football (American)
Madden NFL
NFL
Based on Australian football:
List of Australian rules football computer games
AFL Premiership 2005
See also
Names for association football
Players who have converted from one football code to another
Football field (unit of length)
Saturday, March 8, 2008
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