Human snooker

Haslingden Gazette, Saturday 25 September 1909

Variegated colours are even more practicable than numbers, since the latter, being either on back or front, are not discoverable until the player turns round. We might have white sleeves for goalkeeper, black sleeves for backs, pink sleeves for halves, and yellow sleeves for forwards. This would give the field the appearance of a sort of human snooker, but the suggested details are purely tentative.