Sedgefield Ball Game
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title:
Sedgefield Ball Game
text:
The Sedgefield Ball Game is a mob football game played every Shrove Tuesday across the town of Sedgefield in County Durham, England. According to tradition, the parish clerk is obliged to furnish a football on Shrove Tuesday, which he throws into the market place, where it is contested for by the mechanics against the agriculturists of the town and neighbourhood. More recently, however, it is a secret group of local residents who organise the game, provide the ball and choose who will start the
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encyclopedia
description:
Mob football game in England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgefield_Ball_Game
date created:
2005-12-27T01:37:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T01:38:53Z
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