This was a
Latin grammar, using sporting exemplars to help teach Latin. The
golf section was titled '''', a stick. Wedderburn believed that this was the derivation of the term golf as meaning 'club'. There were a number of other golf terms including the first clear mention of the golf hole. is also notable for an early reference to schoolboy
football and contains a sentence to "keep goal". The account was first published in 1938 by
Francis Peabody Magoun, an American historian. Magoun gives the original Latin text (see later) and his English translation: "Let us choose sides pick your man first Those on our side come here How many are against us? Kick out the ball so that we may begin the game Come, kick it here You keep the goal Snatch the ball from that fellow if you can Come, throw yourself against him Run at him Kick the ball back Well done. You aren't doing anything To make a goal This is the first goal, this the second, this the third Drive that man back The opponents are, moreover, coming out on top, If you don't look out, he will make a goal Unless we play better, we'll be done for Ah, victory is in your hands Ha, hurrah. He is a very skilled ball player Had it not been for him, we should have brought back the victory Come, help me. We still have the better chance" (The original Latin cited with minor corrections by Magoun (1938): ) ==References==