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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Käufer können in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1858 edition. Auszug: ... who has read particulars of the Rugby game, and admired the pluck, skill, and endurance it exacts, as detailed in the pages of " Tom Brown's SchoolDays," would care to have a letter altered, much less a law rescinded. Here is a description of two sides drawn up in battle array for a grand match:--" And now that the two sides have fairly sundered, and each occupies its own ground, and we get a good look at them, what absurdity is this? You don't mean to say that those fifty or sixty boys in white trousers, many of them quite small, are going to play that huge mass opposite? Indeed I do, gentlemen; they 're going to try, at any rate, and won't make such a bad fight of it either, mark my word; for hasn't old Brooke won the toss, with his lucky halfpenny, and got choice of goals, and kick-off? The new ball, you may see, lies there quite by itself, in the middle, pointing towards the school or inland goal; in another minute it will be well on its way there. Use that minute in remarking how the school-house side is drilled. You will see, in the first place, that the sixth-form boy, who has the charge of the goal, has spread his force (the goal-keepers) so as to occupy the whole space behind the goal-posts, at distances of about five yards apart--a safe and well-kept goal is the foundation of all good play. Old Brooke is talking to the captain of quarters; and now he moves away. See how that youngster spreads his men (the light brigade) carefully over the ground, half-way between their own goal and the body of their own players-up, (the heavy brigade.) These, again, play in several bodies; there is young Brooke and the bulldogs--mark them well--they are the "fighting brigade," the " die-hards,"...