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Among the Greeks games with balls ( ) were regarded as auseful subsidiary to the more violent athletic eercises! as a means ofkee"ing the body su""le! and rendering it graceful! but were generallyleft to boys and girls# $f regular rules for the "laying of ball games!

little trace remains! if there were any such# %he names in Greek forvarious forms! which have come down to us in such works as the

&'*+& of ,ulius -ollu! im"ly little or nothing of such. thus!only means the "utting of the ball on the ground with the o"en hand! !the flinging of the ball in the air to be caught by two or more "layers.would seem to be a game of catch "layed by two or more! wherefeinting is used as a test of /uickness and skill# -ollu mentions a

game called e"iskyros! which has often been looked on as the originof football# 0t seems to have been "layed by two sides! arranged inlines. how far there was any form of 1goal1 seems uncertain#


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Among the Romans, ball games were looked upon as anadjunct to the bath, and were graduated to the age and

health of the bathers, and usually a place(sphaeristerium) was set apart for them in the baths(thermae). There appear to have been three types or

sies of ball, the , or small ball, used in catching games,the , a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the follis, aleather ball filled with air, the largest of the three. Thiswas struck from player to player, who wore a kind of

gauntlet on the arm. There was a game known as trigon,played by three players standing in the form of a triangle,

and played with the follis, and also one known asharpastum, which seems to imply a !scrimmage! among

several players for the ball. These games are known tous through the Romans, though the names are "reek.

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