Roman Football?

[GaiusAquiliusBritannicus]

A friend of mine sent me this question and I thought maybe someone here might know more. I've never seen a reference for this myself:

>>I've been doing some reseach for an A&S project that
I'm working on. It didn't really start out like this,
but I'm looking at the origins of football. Or, if
you must, medieval/ancient football. I've found
reference to a Roman game and you since you're my
closest Roman expert I thought I would ask you.

The game was called Harpastum, Harpastu, or Harpaston.
Although the last might be Greek. My research so far
has found that this might have originally been a Greek
game (you know all the Romans had was really Greek in
origin ;]), but I'm still looking for some good
references.>>


Anyone know anything about this game?

Gratis!

Britannicus