From Homer to the Roman 'Harpastum', from Florentine Football to the English College Football.
...After this Alcinous order Halius and Laodamas to dance by themselves, since no one could compete with them. Polybus, a skilled craftmans, had made them a beautiful purple ball, which they took in their hands, and one of them, bending right back, would throw it up towards the shadowy clouds, and the other, leaping up from the ground, would catch it skilfully before his feet touched earth again. After showing their skill at this high play, they began tossing the ball quickly to and fro as they moved in their dance on the bountiful earth, while the other youths stood at the ringside beating time, till the air was filled with sound...
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