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PUSHBALL , a See also:game played by two sides on a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field usually 140 yds. See also:long and 5o yds. wide, with a See also:ball 6 ft. in See also:diameter and 50 lb in See also:weight. The sides usually number eleven each, there being five forwards, two See also:left-wings, two right-wings and two See also:goal-keepers. The goals consist of two upright posts 18 ft. high and 20 ft. apart with a crossbar 7 ft. from the ground. The game lasts for two periods with an intermission. Pushing the ball under the See also:bar See also:counts 5 points; lifting or throwing it over the bar counts 8. A touchdown behind goal for safety counts 2 to the attacking See also:side. The game was invented by M. G. See also:Crane, of See also:Newton, See also:Massachusetts, in 1894, and was taken up at Harvard University the next See also:year, but has never attained any considerable See also:vogue. In See also:Great See also:Britain the first See also:regular game was played at the Crystal See also:Palace in 1902 by teams of eight. The See also:English rules are somewhat different from those obtaining in the See also:United States. Pushball on horseback was introduced in 1902 at Durland's See also:Riding See also:Academy in New See also:York, and has been played in See also:England at the Military See also:Tournament.
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