football. Alternative form of foteball
foteball(Late Middle English)
football (game played with a ball; ancestor of soccer, American football, and rugby)
foteball(Late Middle English) The ball that such a game is played with.
King Henry IV of England also presented one of the earliest documented uses of the English word "football", in 1409, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for "foteball".
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment
In a similar vein, the first time we know of the word “foteball” being used is in a 1409 decree from Henry IV outlawing the levying of money to pay for the game. It must have caught on, however, for one brilliant case of early football’s prevalence is that we have evidence that King Henry VIII ordered a pair of football boots to be made
King Henry IV of England also presented one of the earliest documented uses of the English word "football", in 1409, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for "foteball".[30][34] There is also an account in Latin from the end of the 15th century of football being played at Cawston
博客介绍了foteball是football的另一种形式,提到在中世纪晚期就有相关表述,还讲述了英格兰国王亨利四世在1409年发布公告禁止为“foteball”征税,以及亨利八世定制足球靴等早期足球相关的记载。
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