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The Association Football Cup (FA Cup) competition was inaugurated in 1871, being contested originally by fifteen clubs, all amateur, the first final being played at Kennington Oval in 1872 between the Wanderers and the Royal Engineers - the Wanderers winning 1-0, since 1923 it was played at Wembley Stadium. In 1884 the cup was won by Blackburn Rovers, after which amateur teams started to fall out of the competition, The first final at Wembley was played in 1923 when Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham United FC 2-0.
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Fallowfield Stadium is the oldest cycle track extant in the north of England. It was built at Manchester in 1892 of concrete. It is 509 yards in circumference and has thirty degree bankings. Its major annual event is the Manchester Wheelers' meeting on the second Saturday in July. In addition to cycling, the track has athletic and other facilities, and hosted the 1893 FA Cup Final.
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Fantan is a Chinese gambling game, in which bets are made on any corner of a rectangular card, with numbered corners. When bets have been made the banker places on the table a head of counters and divides them into fours. The winning number is decided by the number of counters in the last batch; if one counter is left over, number one wins, if 2 number 2 and so on. Fantan is a gambling card game for any number of players, played with a full deck of 52 cards.
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Faro is an old gambling card game, possibly of Italian origin.
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The Fastnet Race is an offshore yacht race sailed biennially over a 968 km course from Cowes, Isle of Wight, round the Isles of Scilly to the Fastnet Rock off the south-west coast of Ireland and back to Plymouth.
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Feijenoord SC are an Association Football club formed in Rotterdam in 1908. The club first won the Netherlands championship in 1924.
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Fell Running is an endurance test for both distance runners and mountaineers, deriving its name from the hills of northern England where it is mainly contested.
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Fencing is the sport of sword-fighting. Three weapons are used: the foil, epee, and the sabre.
Fencing was introduced to England from France, but because it led to duelling, fencing schools were prohibited in London by Edward I in 1285.
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Fenland Skating is a form of ice speed-skating which developed on natural, seasonal ice along a stretch of the low-lying Fenland district of England, mainly in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The first professional races were recorded at Croyland in 1820 when some 4000 spectators watched four competitors compete over a distance of two miles for a prize of five guineas, won by Gittam of Nordelph, Norfolk.
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Ferencvaros is an Association Football club in Budapest. It was founded in 1899 as FTC, changed its name to Kinizsi in 1945 and after being amalgamated for a while with the army in 1956 was reformed as a separate entity under the name Ferencvaros.
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Fettesian-Lorettonians are a Scottish Rugby Union football club formed in 1881 with the main object of raising an annual touring side for New Year matches. The founder members were pupils of Fettes College and Loretto who were at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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In chess, a fianchetto is the development of a bishop on the second rank of the neighbouring knight's file or the third rank of the nearer rook's file.
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Figure-skating is a sport for solo and pair-skaters which tests style as well as technical skill. In senior championship competition solo competitors are required to skate three specific ice-skating figures, drawn from an internationally recognised schedule. They then have to perform a short programme containing prescribed free- skating elements, and finally, to music, a free-style performance of their own creation.
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In patience card games a file is a column of cards overlapping but with suits and pip values visible.
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Although Five Hundred is now the national card game of Australia, it was invented in the USA, and promoted by the US Playing Card Company, who copyrighted the rules in 1904. The game is called 500 because the first team (or player) to reach a total score of at least 500 points wins. It is an extension of Euchre, in which the following elements have been added: each player is dealt 10 cards instead of 5, trump is not turned up, but is chosen by whoever is willing to contract for the greatest number of tricks; the size of the pack is adjusted, so that all the cards are dealt to the players except for a kitty of three cards, which can be used by the highest bidder. From the outset, special expanded decks with extra pip cards were made to allow the game to be played by six people. In Australia, 500 is normally played by four people, two playing against two in fixed partnerships; a similar version of the game is played in New Zealand. Five Hundred is still played in North America as well, but the standard American rules are rather
different from the Australian game.
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Five-Up is a game played with a standard set of Western double-six dominoes - 28 tiles in all. It is also known as Muggins or All Fives.
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Fives is a ball game for two or four players, in which a small hard ball is struck with the hand against the walls of an enclosed court.
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The Fleche Wallonne Cycle Race is a Belgian professional classic founded in 1936. The race has no fixed course, but traditionally starts at Liege, finishes at Charleroi and covers 206 - 249 km of laborious climbing along the Ardennes mountain roads.
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Flemington is a horse race-course at Melbourne, Australia, where the Melbourne Cup, Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Victoria Derby and other races for two-year-olds are run.
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Flower and Scorpion is a domino game, a variation of Bergen, for two to four players using a double six set (28 dominoes). As in Bergen, players score for making the free ends of the layout equal. In addition, two pairs of dice are thrown before each hand to determine the flower, which gives a bonus when the ends of the layout match it, and the scorpion, which gives a penalty when it is matched.
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Fluminense is a Brazilian Association Football club in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in 1902 and was a co- founder of the Rio League in 1906.
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In card games a flush is a hand of cards of all the same suit.
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Fly Ball is a bat-and-ball game of the tennis type played with a shuttlecock. The racket is the shape of a table-tennis bat and has a net hitting surface. The shuttlecock is like that used in badminton.
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The Folkestone Festival is a hockey festival held annually at Easter in Folkestone, England. It was first held in 1906.
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In card games, follow suit means to play a card of the same suit as the previous card played in a trick.
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Football is the name of several games involving the kicking of an inflated ball around a pitch, the modern football games evolving around the middle of the 19th century, but football was known to the ancient Britons, and was censured and opposed by Edward II in 1314.
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Forty-Fives is a card game descended from the Irish game Spoil Five. It is much played among the Irish population in the New World - especially in Nova Scotia - the most popular version being one with bidding, technically known as Auction Forty-Fives, and also sometimes called One Hundred and Twenty, which is more logical given that 120 is the target score and the number 45 has no relevance to the game.
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In patience card games a foundation card is a card laid down upon which other cards are built up or built down, usually an ace or a king.
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The Frank Worrell Trophy is a cricket trophy played for between the West Indies and Australia. It was instituted in 1961 by the Australian cricket board in commemoration of the tied test match between Australia and the West Indies at Brisbane during the series of the 1960-1961 season and named after Sir Frank Worrell who led the West Indies in that match.
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Freefalling is a sport also known as skydiving, which entails falling from an aircraft and then, by a correct positioning of the body, gliding down from anything up to 3650 meters until 600 meters - the level at which a parachute must be opened.
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French Tarot is a trick taking card game played by three or four players with a 78-card deck of Tarot cards.
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Fulham FC is a British Association Football club founded in 1898 from the St Andrews Church football team which had been formed in 1879 and entered the Football League in 1907. In 1894 Fulham FC settled at their current ground, Craven Cottage, but had to wait two years before the ground was fit to play a match at.
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