Pre-Industrial Britain (Before 1750) Sports

Pre-Industrial Britain (Before 1750) Sports

Mob Football:

• Lower class
• Men
• No written rules (players couldn't read or write)
• No division between teams
• Ball made of pigs bladder and straw
• Goals = 2 mill stones (a mile apart)
• Cruel and violent
• Local rural towns, no boundaries
• Anually - shrove tide, shrove tuesday (days off (usually religious))

Cheese Rolling:

• Lower class
• Men
• Anually
• No rules - not civilised
• Local rural setting
• Just a wheel of cheese…