The English national games are cricket, football, boxing and to a less extent, hockey,
tennis and golf. Of these games the two which almost every English man plays are cricket
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Each large town in England has a cricket club, the most famous and the oldest is the
Marylebone cricket Club (M.C.C.) in London. Most Commonwealth countries have their
cricket teams and each of them sends a team to England to play with the M.C.C. If the
M.C.C. loses the game to the Commonwealth team it is usually a national disaster.
The are two kinds of football, soccer and rugby. Soccer is the game played almost
throughout the world. In soccer there are two teams of eleven players each. Each tries to
kick the leather ball through one of the goals which face one another at a distance of a
hundred metres. No player expect the goalkeeper may touch the ball with the hands.
Rugby is more complicated. Each side consists of fifteen players, one may carry the
ball in the hands, and the aim is to carry the ball over one of the two boundaries. Almost
each of the boys played at public schools and Universities can play rugby.
Other English sports are rowing, horse racing, fox hunting and shooting.
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