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BOTORI

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOTORI , a See also:

Japanese See also:game played at the See also:naval, military and other See also:schools, by two sides of equal number, usually about one See also:hundred, each of which defends a See also:pole about 8 ft. high firmly set in the ground, the poles being about 200 yds. distant from each other. The See also:object of each party is to overthrow the adversaries' pole while keeping their own upright. Pulling, hauling and See also:wrestling are allowed, but no striking or kicking. The players resort to all kinds of massed formations to arrive at the enemies' pole, and frequently succeed in passing over their heads and shoulders one or more comrades, who are thus enabled to reach the pole and See also:bear it down unless pulled off in See also:time by its defenders. A game similar in See also:character is played by the See also:Sophomore and Freshman classes of See also:Amherst See also:College (See also:Massachusetts), called the " See also:Flag-See also:rush." It was instituted at the instance of the See also:faculty to take the See also:place of the traditional " See also:Cane-rush," a See also:general melee between the two classes for the ultimate See also:possession of a stout walking-stick, which became so rough that students were frequently seriously injured. In the " Flag-rush " a small flag is set upon a padded See also:post about 6 ft. high, and is defended by one class while the other endeavours, as at Botori, to overthrow it. If the flag is not captured or torn down within a certain time the defending See also:side wins.

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