Word: elyot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter...