Word: nothyng
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...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 Camp, Parke H. Davis...
...Thomas Elyote, in the Gourernour, 1557, speaks of 'Foote Balle, wherein is nothyng but beastelye fury and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurte, and consequently rancour and malice doe remanyne with them that be wounded, wherefore it is to be put in perpetual silence...
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