Improved Parlour or Indoor Football Game.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improved Parlour or Indoor Football Game.
JAMES ALEXANDER DICKIE, 13, Kirk Street, Leith, Dentist, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention consists of a board representing a football field formed of papier
mache wood or similar material with goals at each end, a raised boundary or
touch line all round and a series of grooves running in the directions of the
various figures; a number of figures formed of cardboard wood
representing the players, 22 or any smaller and suitable number, stationed at
various fixed points and either fixed or removeable having one moveable leg
each, fitted with an elastic or wire spring; and a football of cork, celluloid or
other suitable substance.
This is an imitation of the game of Association football to be played by two
players. The figures are stationed at fixed points and can be made to kick in
either direction so that each player can in turn use all the figures on the board
excepting the goalkeepers who can only be used by the players at their respective
ends.
The game is started from the centre and the ball kicked or propelled by the
various figures operated by the players towards the opponents goal, the grooves
on the board ensuring that the ball shall roll towards the moveable leg of some
one figure or other. So long as the ball does not pass over the touch line it is
in play, but if it goes over at the side the player in fault concedes a throw in
to his opponent, but if it goes over at either end it must be kicked off by the
goalkeeper at that end.
The players play alternately, and the game is continued till a goal is scored.
-Dated this Twenty-eighth day of October 1899
Improved Parlour or Indoor Football Game.
1, JAMES ALEXANDER DICKIE, late of 13, Kirk Street, Leith, residing at
175, Ferry Road, Leith, Mechanical Dentist, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my
invention and Figures 2 and 3 respectively front and side views of a player
shown detached:
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My invention relates to an improved parlour or indoor football game and
consists of a board C representing a football field, formed of papier mache, wood,

page_text: or similar material with goals b at each end, a raised boundary or touch line l'
all round, and a series of grooves P running in the directions of the various
ligures.
A number of figures B formed of cardboard, wood, or metal, representing the
players, 22 or any smaller and suitable number, stationed, at various points by
xed supports
and either fixed or removable, having one moveable leg
each, fitted with an elastic or wire spring, G and a football L of cork, celluloid
or other suitable substance.
The parlour or indoor game according to my invention is an imitation of
the ordinary game of Association football and is to be played by two players
The figures are, stationed at fixed points and can be made to kick in either
direction so that each player can in turn use all the figures on the board excepting
the goalkeepers A who can only be used by the players at their respective
ends.
The modus operandi is as follows: The game is first started from the centre,
and the ball Ĺ kicked or propelled by the various figures operated by the
players towards the opponents goal, the grooves P on the board ensuring that
the ball shall roll towards the moveable leg of some one figure or other. When
the ball rests at the side nearest to the player of one of the figures it falls to
the turn of his opponent to play. So long as the ball does not pass over the
touch line it is in play, but if it goes over at the side the player in fault concedes
a throw in to his opponent; if, however, it goes over at either end it must be
kicked off by the goal keeper at that end. The players play as in the ordinary
Association game and the game is continued till a goal is scored.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
A new or improved parlour or indoor football game comprising a series of
players, mounted on a board, constructed, arranged and operated all as herein-
before more particularly set forth.
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Dated
U1115
80th day of July 1900.
BENJ. T. KING, A.Inst. Mech. E.,
Registered Patent Agent, 165, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for Applicant.