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According to a writer in the Encyclopaedia Brittannica, it was the Voluntary movement of 1860, and the impetus thereby given to open-air exercise and amusement, that have caused the revival of foot-ball. But, whatever the cause may have been, of the revival itself there is no question. Thirty years or so ago, for example, the game was hardly known at the Universities, was at best pursued by some exuberent freshmen, Etonians mostly, who had not yet outgrown their salad days. Now our "young barbarians" of Oxford and Cambridge kick away at each other's shins as keenly...
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