Picture No | 10951905 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | Wartime Football - Association at the Front, WWI |
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Series of humorous vignettes drawn by H. H. Harris showing the experience of playing football at the front during the First World War. Problems encountered include a heavy ball due to all the mud it picks up, pain caused by spurs and hard boots and unanticipated shell explosions (!).
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Source | Illustration by H. H. Harris in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1 December 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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