It's like a mixture of UFC and football (soccer for my US amigos) and handball!This game was apparently a Romanized version of a Greek game called phaininda. It involved considerable speed, agility, and physical exertion. It must have been played on dirt or a lawn, not on a court, since players often ended up on the ground. In Greece, a spectator once had his leg broken when he got caught in the middle of play.Here is a documentary that is very similar!