Word: lusk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champions of fair Lusk, and Ye of Soards...
...poem is entitled "A Match at Football", in three Cantos. It describes a match played between the team of Lusk, the Champions of Ireland, and the Soards. It is remarkable how similar is this account of a football game played two centuries ago to our modern newspaper's description of a game. The account in true journalistic style starts off with a description of the crowded "Stadium" and its setting. Then the team comes running on the field, led by Captain Terence. It seems that even a University band attended this primitive match in the person of one "Ventoso...
...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 set; Now all impatient...
...behind; A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound, And laid the Champion grov'ling on the Ground". As Mr. Williams who reviewed the poem for the London Outlook aptly said, Terrence "would probably be ordered off the field in these degenerate days". Yet these men of Soards and Lusk would probably have fied amazed had a modern gridiron hero stepped on the field with his huge padded shoulders, and his helmet of leather...
...timely warning to diabetics who are hailing insulin as a panacea for their disease. When Mr. McCann talks about food his opinions are worth listening to, for they are based on the body of proved knowledge of nutrition built up on the past 20 years by such authorities as Lusk, Mendel, Benedict, McCollum and others...