Talk:Cnapan

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I disagree with whoever it was who said that Cnapan is an ancient form of football. It was never in the "football" category of games since the ball could not be kicked -- it was made of wood, and was too hard for kicking. But the ball was passed, smuggled or thrown from one player to another, and from what we know about the rules it has a much better claim to being the real forerunner of RUGBY as we know it today. there were forwards, threequarters, lineouts and scrummages, mauls and rucks. Never mind this nonsense about Rugby School and young Webb Ellis who picked up the ball and ran with it; Wales was where the game of rugby started, as Cnapan, some time in the Middle Ages!