“Moopsball is a contact sport played by up to three hundred and twenty-four people, divided into two teams, for three days, on a field more than ten times the size of a football field.
Each team is made up of the following players:
ten shields
ten hoops
ten flingers
twenty cavalrymen
four lieutenants
five buglers
one standard bearer
one wizard
one captain
In addition, each team is allowed up to one hundred noncombatants, support personnel: camp followers, wives, husbands, cooks, medics, dogs, turkeys, etc. There are also fifty-one referees.”
