The Field Game is one of two codes of football devised and played at Eton College.
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.
[5] Eton field game was one of the first varieties of football to have match reports in the English press.
[10] The positions in the field game are divided into two main groups: The "Bully" and the "Behinds".
This can be advantageous for a team with a fitter bully, as it gives them an opportunity to create an off-side "Sneaking", and then win a kick.
The Long essentially remains in the goal-mouth, and his job is to kick back any ball which goes over the Shorts, or to defend the goal.
The goals are smaller than in football but no player is allowed to use their hands to touch the ball.
In a conversion the attackers move the ball down tramlines at the end of the pitch from the side towards the goal.
It replaced the "ram", in which a column of four players from the attacking side lifted their feet to the sound of "left up right up left up right up, one two three..", then, to the shout of "ram", charged a defensive goalpost scrum from a range of 2.5 yards with the aim of forcing the ball over the line between the posts.