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FOOTE 



Association Football 



Though perhaps giving both spectators and 

 players fewer moments of tense-muscled sus- 

 pense than Rugby, "soccer" football is a more 

 lively, spirited and continuously active game. 

 From beginning to end of its ninety minutes 

 of play, interrupted only by the one minute 

 rest at half-time, the ball travels back and forth 

 and up and down the field, now pausing for a 



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moment as two players strive for its possession, 

 then suddenly shooting through the air, now 

 bounding from the head of a player who leaps 

 into the air to intercept it by a bunt, now 

 dribbled, or carried along in short kicks, by a 

 player who seems as skilful with his feet as 

 most people are with their hands; suddenly 

 passed to another player by a kick with the 

 side of the foot and driven swiftly toward the 

 net which is stretched between the goal posts; 

 then seized by the goal keeper after a headlong 

 dive and punted quickly to midfield, where the 

 struggle, suspended only for a moment, begins 

 again. 



Association football is so named because it 

 is the form of game for which the first set of 

 uniform rules was drafted, by the London 

 Football Association, in 1863. "Soccer" is the 



word association converted into slang in the 

 British fashion by adding -cr to the principal 

 syllable. Similarly, "rugger" stands for Rugby. 



The popularity of soccer in Great Britain 

 rivals (if it does not exceed) that of baseball 

 in the United States. In normal times there 

 are over 400 professional and 15,000 amateur 

 clubs in the British Isles, and closely-packed, 

 standing crowds of more than 100,000 witness 

 some of the championship matches. There are 

 a number of leagues, which play throughout 

 the winter. On the continent of Europe, too, 

 association football is a familiar game, and 

 before the War of the Nations there was an 

 international federation which included Aus- 

 tria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, 

 France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, 

 Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Quite nat- 

 urally the British dominions and colonies also 

 play the game, and it is growing in favor in 

 the United States. In some parts of Canada 

 it is more popular than Rugby. 



Association football is played with a spheri- 

 cal ball about twenty-eight inches in circum- 

 ference, on a field from 100 to 130 yards long 

 and from 50 to 100 yards wide. Eleven players 

 make up a team. The distinguishing principle 

 of the rules is that the ball must never be 

 touched with the hand or arm except by the- 

 goal keeper. See the general article ATH- 

 LETICS, w.c. 



Consult Camp's Book of Football; Yost's Foot- 

 ball for Player and Spectator. 



FOOTE, ANDREW HULL (1806-1863), an 

 American officer who was distinguished as a 

 Federal naval commander, was born in New 

 Haven, Conn. He entered the navy as acting 

 midshipman in 1822, and later was executive 

 officer in the Boston and Brooklyn navy yards. 

 From 1849 to 1851, as commander of the brig 

 Perry, he cruised along the African coast for 

 the protection of American commerce and the 

 suppression of the slave traffic. In 1852 he 

 was advanced to the rank of commodore. In 

 1856, when in command of the China station, 

 during the war between the Chinese and Eng- 

 lish, he was fired upon by the former, and 

 his demand for an apology being refused, he 

 attacked and captured four of their forts. 



In 1861, in the War of Secession, he directed 

 the naval attacks on Forts Henry and Donel- 

 son, and was wounded in the engagement. In 

 1862, at his own request, he was formally 

 detached from the western flotilla, became 



