Template:Did you know nominations/Winchester College football

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 19:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Winchester College football

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... that Winchester College football used to be played on top of a hill, with a line of boys on each side to keep the ball from rolling away? Source: Sabben-Clare, James P. (1981). Winchester College : after 600 years, 1382-1982. Paul Cave Publications, page 105: "it was first played on the flat space at the top of St. Catherine's Hill... Junior boys, marshalled down each side of the pitch, kept the ball in play and stopped it rolling down the slopes of the hill"
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Improved to Good Article status by Chiswick Chap (talk). Self-nominated at 15:54, 28 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Winchester College football; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Approved: Nice article, which has recently passed GA. A lot of tricky Winchester-isms, but generally reasonably explained, and to some extent the incomprehensibility is the whole point. QPQ done, hook looks good. Νο plagiarism, copyvio or other serious issues in evidence. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 20:54, 28 January 2024 (UTC)