 A wide variety of units were reported in contemporary accounts to have taken part in games ; Dash listed the 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment pitched against " Scottish troops " ; the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders against unidentified Germans ( with the Scots reported to have won 4 – 1 ) ; the Royal Field Artillery against " Prussians and Hanovers " near Ypres ; and the Lancashire Fusiliers , based near Le Touquet , with the specific detail of a bully beef ration tin as the " ball " . One recent writer has identified 29 separate reports of football , though does not give substantive details . 
