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Topical Budget 494-1: Ye Olde Game of Football (1921)
 

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"YE OLDE GAME OF FOOTBALLE Strenuous struggle in river and streets of Ashbourne, Derbyshire". Group of men pose with ball with date 1921 written on it. Crowd disperses and plays football through the streets and scrambling through the river.