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Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form
Salience | Noteworthy |
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City/State/Country: | Chailey, Sussex, England |
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Game | StoolballStoolball |
Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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Text | "Stoolball was played at Chailey [Sussex] in 1861. Major Lionel King . . . first saw stoolball in the early 'sixties, while still a very small boy. He watched a game in a field belonging to Eastfield Lodge, Hassocks [Sussex], and both men and maidens were playing" |
Sources | Russell-Goggs, in "Stoolball in Sussex," The Sussex County Magazine, volume 2, no. 7 (July 1928), page 322. Note: Russell-Goggs does not give a source for this report. |
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1861.2 Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form"
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