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Title: Carterhaugh Ba’
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Great Foot-Ball Match on the Field of Carterhaugh and the Birth of Rugby
Author: Ian Landles, Billy Gillies, Hugh Hornby
Contributor: Richard Buccleuch (Foreword by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0995756643
EAN: 9780995756649
ISBN: 9780995756649
Publisher: Bellendaine Books
Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Release Date: 28/10/2021
Description: On December 4, 1815, 750 ba’ players came together in a mighty contest on the field of Carterhaugh, near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, for what was advertised as ‘a Great Foot-Ball Match’. On December 4, 2015, two bands of dedicated ba’ players descended on Carterhaugh to celebrate the bicentenary of the match by joining battle in another no-holds-barred contest.

For anyone interested the true origins of the game of rugby in the centuries-old mass ba’ games of the Scottish Borders and the North of England – still alive and kicking to this day – here are tales wonderfully told by historians of the game.

Cracked crowns, furious duckings, acts of never-to-be-forgotten heroism and unforgivable betrayal – Ian Landles relives the dramas of the original 1815 Carterhaugh Ba’ match, recalls Walter Scott’s pivotal role in organising it, and in the process rewrites the early history of rugby. The late Hugh Hornby describes the enduring appeal of mass football games today.

Billy Gillies explains why the Border ba’ game is absolutely not just a game but a serious business, and gives a blow-by-blow account of the 2015 re-enactment.

Historic images, verses and letters, alongside photographs by leading Scottish photographers, tell a story that has waited two centuries to be told.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 240mm
Item Weight: 714g
Release Year: 2021

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