applied to the space marked off for that game.

Along the field the ball is urged, in ways presently to be explained,
and which only the strong and active would care to carry out if
pleasure in the strenuous sport were not its own great reward.

The ball used in this game is shaped somewhat like a lemon, or two
cones joined at their bases. From the middle the angle of slope must
be the same to the two ends.

The cover is of leather, and enclosed in this is an inflated bladder
or an inflated rubber ball of the same shape. The work of inflating is
done through a nozzle or opening as in a rubber tire and it is closed
in much the same way. This is done before the cover is put on.

The football field is not hard to mark out; as in baseball, the
flatter and smoother the better. The field is rectangular, one hundred
and sixty feet wide by three hundred and thirty feet long. For
convenience in telling the position of the ball, lines, indicated by
whitewash as in tennis, are drawn across the field, fifteen feet
apart.

In laying out, measure eighty feet from one corner along the line and
mark the point. On the opposite end mark in the same way. The end
lines being one hundred and sixty feet long, the points indicated will
mark the center of the lines. Next measure nine feet three inches to
the right, and the same to the left of the center points on the end
lines, and place four goal posts, two at each end of the field. This
will leave the proper space, eighteen feet, six inches between the
posts. On these posts, and ten feet from the ground, the cross bars