 | Football - 1851 - 32 Seiten
...first dared to stay his course by his rough embrace, both roll on the ground, locked in each other's arms, the foundation of a pyramid of human flesh,...of the Twenty the no less precious ball. Stifling, suffocating, crushing backwards and forwards heaves the thickset mass; at last numbers will tell :... | |
 | George Melly - 1854 - 346 Seiten
...individual prowess must gain the victory. How well is each acquainted with his particular post and duty! " Nor do the adversaries present a less magnificent...suffocating, backwards and forwards heaves the thickset mass j at last numbers will tell—the goal is passed ; the gallant holder of the ball, disdaining to speak... | |
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... re-echoes from three hundred lungs; and every member of either side is thronging to the conflict. Then comes the tug of war. The hapless and too adventurous hero who first grasped the ball, and he who first dared to stay his course by a rough embrace,... 