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1. Records of the game of Tsu Chu can be found in miltary manuals
dating back to the Tsin Dynasty which existed between 255 BCE and 206 BCE.
2. Tsu Chu literally means football with Tsu
meaning 'kicking the ball with feet' and Chu meaning 'a ball made of leather and
stuffed'.
3. A zuqui was a football, roughly the size of a volleyball, that was
made of roughly stitched leather and stuffed with animal fur.
4. A hollow ball eventually repalced the solid one during the Tang
Dynasty between 618 and 907.
5. The first (alleged) international game was in approximately 50 CE.
6. Kemari was played on a grass pitch marked out by trees. The pitch was
called a kikutsubo and was marked out by a cherry tree, a maple, a willow and a
pine.
7. Episkyro.
8. The Romans conquered Greece in 146 BCE, from where the game
originated. It is fair to assume that the Romans dicsovered the Greek game of
Harpastron and adopted their own version called Harpastum.
9. The ball was made from a stitched leather skin and stuffed with
chopped up sponges or animal fur. The ball was approximately 8 inches in
diameter.
10. The game itself was very popular with the Roman Army and thus they
tended to play the game wherever they went. In most cases the game proved quite
popular with the local population who then ended up playing the game
themselves.
History Comprehension