Historic hale scorer in Alnwick Shrovetide football fixture returns to US
Northumberland Gazette — North America was still a part of the British Empire when the earliest records of the traditional annual Alnwick Shrove ‘mob football’ begin in 1762.
The game, which moved from the streets of the town to the pastures in front of Alnwick castle in 1820, almost certainly pre-dates even that, however.
It proved a historic moment then, in February this year, when a visiting student from the States became the first woman ever to score a hale in the contest between the parishes of St. Michael’s and St. Paul’s.
