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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manner of playing has excited severe newspaper criticism. In comparing foot ball with other sports, one. English journal says: "We should hear of more casualities in the cricket field, for instance, if a sinewy fielder were allowed to trip up and throw a sparely-built batsman, or had the option of felling him to the ground by hurling a ball at his head; and there would be accidents innumerable in the hunting field if it was permissible for riders to endeavor to collide with each other when taking a brook or a fence...