Top Hat Soccer (1946)

Item title reads - Top hat soccer. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Oxford versus Cambridge in a comic football match. C/U of a book with title “Ancient rules of football“. C/U’s of the teams running out dressed in top hats, pantaloons, jerseys, spats etc. and wearing beards. Various shots of the game in progress, with three balls in play. C/U as a gong is struck for half time. C/U’s of the players drinking down old English ale and eating pumpkins. Various shots of the second half where players have to walk instead of run. C/U as one of the players receives “artificial respiration“ after being knocked out (only a gag). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Ga