Text Appearing Before Image: s goal, and to prevent the opponents from doing thelike ; no player but the goal-keeper being at liberty to use hishands or arms throughout the game. Such is the simple gamewhich has now been brought to such an extraordinary pitch ofskill that none but those who have seen can well appreciate, andwhich is so well appreciated by those who have seen that it is-no rare thing for ten or twelve thousand spectators to watch andfollow a match with interest. The dribbling game, if the theory we have given above becorrect, grew up entirely at the schools where running with theball and tackhng the runners was dangerous to clothes andlimbs. Each of the old schools had, as we have seen, its owngame, differing in almost every point.except in the essentialfeature of the prohibition of tackling and running with the ball,and it was not until the old pubhc-school boys felt drawn toform clubs to play the game again when their school-days wereover, that the necessity for assimilation of rules arose. Then