You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

SPORTS, THEN AND NOW
 
�            Football’s rules were first cod­i­fied in Eng­land in 1863 by the
Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion of Eng­land. It was short­ened by many to “socc”
and an “er” was added to refer to those who play the game.
 
�       Drag­on boat rac­ing was a pop­u­lar sport in Chi­na 2,000 years ago. It
involved teams pad­dling crew-style boats that were dec­o­rat­ed with
drag­on heads. Today Drag­on boat rac­ing is car­ried out all over the
world as a hob­by sport.
 
�       In the Cana­di­an Foot­ball League, if the kick­ing team kicks or punts
the ball into the end zone and the receiv­ing team doesn’t return it, the
kick­ing team gets a “rogue,” which is worth one point.
 
�       Amer­i­can Thomas Hicks won the gold medal in the marathon at the
1904 Sum­mer Olympics after tak­ing brandy and strych­nine.
Appar­ent­ly rat poi­son acts as stim­u­lant!
 
�       A vase from Hagia Tri­a­da, Crete, dat­ed to about 1,550 BCE, depicts
two men wrestling. The vase is impor­tant because it’s one of the first
clas­si­cal depic­tions of wrestling.
 
�            If an Aus­tralian Rules Foot­ball team has too many play­ers on the
field, they lose all the points they’ve scored until that point of time in
the match.
 
�            Hastilude was the term used in medieval Europe to refer to com­bat
sports such as joust­ing. These ath­let­ic events were held in
tour­na­ments in cel­e­bra­tion of roy­al wed­dings or oth­er major events.
 
�       Sep­ak Takraw is a unique sport that com­bines ele­ments of vol­ley­ball
and soc­cer, with play­ers using their heads and legs to hit the ball over
the net. The cur­rent ver­sion of the pop­u­lar Asian game orig­i­nat­ed in
Malaysia in the 1940s.
 
�            High­land Games are held around the world to cel­e­brate Scot­tish
cul­ture and Scot­tish sports. The caber toss, stone put, and ham­mer
throw are the most pop­u­lar events.
 
�            In the Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Foot­ball (FIFA) rules, the
goal­keep­er is the only play­er on the field who can touch the ball with
his/her hands and can only do so for six sec­onds.
 
�            When the Major League Base­ball (MLB) teams — the New York
Giants and Brook­lyn Dodgers left for Cal­i­for­nia in 1957, the Big
Apple was with­out a Nation­al League team until 1962.
 
�            Bas­ket­ball is now the sec­ond most pop­u­lar sport in the world, with
more than one bil­lion fol­low­ers. Bas­ket­ball gen­er­ates over $4.75
bil­lion in rev­enue in dozens of glob­al leagues.
 
�            Archae­ol­o­gists have uncov­ered more than 6,000 ball courts in
Mex­i­co alone that the Maya and oth­er pre-Columbian peo­ples of
Mesoamer­i­ca used to play the “Ball Game.”
 
�       “Zorb­ing” is a “sport” that involves rolling down­hill inside a plas­tic
orb that looks like a ham­ster ball. It start­ed in New Zealand in 1994.
 
�       Soccer/Football is like a reli­gion in Brazil, which is prob­a­bly due in
part to the coun­try win­ning FIFA World Cups: in 1958, 1962, 1970,
1994, and 2002.
 
�            Shin-kick­ing is a com­bat sport that began in Eng­land in the 1600s.
It’s per­formed just as the name indi­cates, which makes it no won­der
why the “sport” has remained in Eng­land.
 
�            When ancient Egypt­ian kings reached their 30-year jubilee, they
would do a rit­u­al run around the mor­tu­ary com­plex. The age of the
king didn’t mat­ter, so luck­i­ly, they weren’t timed!