Futher reading

"History of Football: From the Beginnings to 1871" by F. P. Magoun, Jr., 1938

Traditional and Folklife. A Welsh view by Orwerth C. Peate. IBSN 0571 09804 5. Faber & Faber 1972.

Carter, James M., Sports and Games of the Middle Ages: An Annotated Bibliography (Hamden: Garland, 1994).

"how Did Sport Begin?" by R. Brasch, Longman, 1971

"The World Book Encyclopaedia" p448c)

Corbishley, G. J., The Ashbourne Custom of Shrovetide Football (Yeldersley: P. J. Wood, 1953).

Discovering English Customs and Traditions Paperback - 96 pages (May 1998) Shire Publications Ltd; ISBN: 0747803773

The Folklore Calendar by George Long, Paperback - 240 pages (24 May, 1996) Senate Books; ISBN: 1859580408

Hurling at St. Columb and in Cornwall by Ivan Rabey. Paperback (10 February, 1972) Lodenek P; ISBN: 0902899112

Corbishley, G. J., The Ashbourne Custom of Shrovetide Football (Yeldersley: P J Wood, 1953), 20pp

Sir Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall, 1602, repub. New York, 1969, pp. 147-149.

E.Dunning and K.Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby, Oxford, 1979; see chapter 1, esp. pp. 21-45.

D.A.Reid, `'Folk Football, the Aristocracy and Cultural Change: A Critique of Dunning and Sheard', International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol.5, No.2, May 1988, p.255.

ARTUSI L., GABBRIELLI S., Early Florence and the historic game of calcio, Firenze 1972.