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Topical Budget 537-2: Quite Unfit for Females (1921)
 

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Title: "'Quite Unfit for Females'. Football Association's view of Women Players. What do you think?" "Hundreds of girls like these may lose their grounds under the F.A's ban." Group of girls in football outfits - loose shirts and shorts - lie on grass. Title: "These look fit enough!" The girls put through their training routine; running along touchline with hands on hips and high knee steps; playing leapfrog; lying on side balanced on one hand and raising their leg in the air. All overseen by a man in a tweed jacket and Hitler-like moustache. The girls having a kick about. "'Females' are we!" Two women argue; two others lean against a goal post chatting; "Who said I was an 'uninspired spectacle'?" One of the women smiles at camera and says 'Hello, alright'.