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...year 1721 "A Match at Football" was first published. Its author, Matthew Concanen, was honored by a place in Pope's Dunciad, so that he is best remembered as "a cold, long winded native of the deep". His poem describes a game between the men of Soards and those of Lusk, "adjoyning Baronies in the County of Dublin", and although the teams consisted of but six players a side, the details of play strikingly resemble those of a modern scrimmage. We read: "And now both Bands in close Embraces nmet, And Foot to Foot, and Breast to Breast were...
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