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The Field Game is one of Eton College's two brands of football, the other being the famous Eton Wall Game. The game is like soccer in some ways — the ball is round, but one size smaller than a standard football, and you are not allowed to pick it up — but the off-side rules - known as 'sneaking' - are more in keeping with rugby. There is also a small scrum or "bully" of either six or seven aside. Goals can be scored much as in soccer, although there is no goal-keeper. But a team gains more points for scoring a 'rouge'. To score a rouge a player must kick the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players, or achieve a charge-down, and then goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch. The ball is then 'rougeable' and must be touched - although not necessarily to the ground - by an attacking player to complete the rouge for five points. Rouges are similar to tries in that the scoring team then attempts to convert them for two points. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a prestigious and internationally known independent school for boys. ...
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The wallgame has been played since 1766 The Eton Wall Game, which originates from Eton College, is a vigorous hybrid of rugby union and football played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long next to a slightly curved brick wall (which was erected in 1717). ...
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It is the only game at Eton that virtually every boy plays, at least for his first three years in the school, and it occupies prime position in the games programme throughout the Lent Half. In Western Christianity, Lent is the period from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. ...
Rules
Scoring There are two main ways of gaining points in the Field Game.
Goals There is a goal at each end of the pitch. The goals are smaller than in soccer but no player is allowed to use their hands to touch the ball. If a player kicks a ball into the opponents goal they score 3 points. Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
Rougeables If the ball comes from a player and goes behind the infinite line created by extending their goal line, it is rougeable. The ball is also rougeable when a defender kicks it so that it rebounds off an attacker over this line.
When a ball is rougeable players from both teams race to reach it first.
If an attacker reaches it first their team scores a 'rouge', worth five points and also attempts a conversion (see below).
If a defender reaches it first the attaking team has a choice of 'point or bully' they can choose either to be awarded a single point or to form a bully (like a scrum), close to the opponents end of the pitch. If they drive the ball over the end of the pitch they score a rouge (5 points) and as before can convert it. There is more than one common usage for the term scrum: Look up scrum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Conversions In a conversion the attackers move the ball down tramlines at the end of the pitch from the side towards the goal. The attacker has to keep the ball moving and avoid it leaving the tramlines. They try to either score a goal or to hit the ball of a defender to score a rouge.
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