Thomas Holloway - Hollloway's Sports and Pastimes of all Nations

c1900

Holloway's Sports and Pastimes of all Nations

Thomas Holloway

50 cards (½ football)

Another version of the set that was originally issued by Arbuckle Bros. in the United States. A stated previously, the set doesn't actually feature football but the England card, depicting cricket, fox hunting and rowing on the front, does mention the sport on the back:

Foot-ball another and most popular national game of Old England can be traced back to the Greeks who had a game which roughly resembled it. So also did the Romans. It is related that the ancient Britons of the venerable cities of Chester and Derby were the first who played football and that their games were held to commemorate victories. Sometimes the ball employed, was an uncanny one being the head of a fallen foe. Football has always thriven on English soil, and is to-day as popular as it ever has been.

See this post for more information about this set of cards, some cards include the section relating to football, but some do not:

Arbuckle Bros. (USA) - A Pictorial History of the Sports and Pastimes of all Nations

1.  United States

2.  England

3.  Scotland

4.  Ireland

5.  Wales

6.  France

7.  Germany

8.  Holland

9.  Switzerland

10.  Spain

11.  Portugal

12.  Italy

13.  Russia

14.  Denmark

15.  Norway

16.  Sweden

17.  Assyria

18.  Tyrol

19.  Poland

20.  Gypsy

21.  Austria

22.  American Indians

23.  Canada

24.  Alaska

25.  Brazil

26.  Chile

27.  Hawaii

28.  Patagonia

29.  Cuba

30.  Mexico

31.  Central Africa

32.  Australia

33.  India

34.  Japan

35.  Persia

36.  China

37.  Turkey

38.  Arabia

39.  Tibet

40.  Esquimau

41.  Algeria

42.  Pompeii

43.  Anglo Saxon

44.  Greece

45.  Egypt

46.  Rome

47.  Judea

48.  American Negroes

49.  Medieval France

50.  Lapland