Word: vaunted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matches are now played in the suburbs where thirty or forty were played fifteen years ago. and in the north the system of county matches makes rapid strides. Is the game more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur under the Rugby Union rules, and the players vaunt the change from the old twenty to the fifteen game. The improvement makes the game faster, but it brings with it far more falls and collisions than the old shoving contest. To have abolished the "maul-in-goal" is at any rate a good thing ; but foot-ball is more...