) In Britain, football games may have been played as early as the time of Roman occupation in the 1st 🌈 century bce.

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Disputes arose over handling the ball and "hacking," the term given to the tactics of tripping 🌈 an opponent and kicking his shins.

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By this time, hacking 🌈 had largely disappeared from club rugby, though it remained a part of the game's "character building" qualities at Rugby School.