Stuffing a leather sack with feathers and sundry was also popular. I believe that was a form of early golf-ball
On 11/30/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
can't speak for other ball sports, but I'm pretty sure bowling started out with rolling a stone toward a club target. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/bowling.shtml American football descended from Rugby, which originated at the Rugby school in England. (I'm sure most sports fans already knew that.) I found this website about sports in Ancient Rome, which I thought was pretty cool: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/romeball.html Still don't know how they made balls back then in the first place. Probably animal bladders inflated. Human skulls seems fairly unlikely. --- In [email protected]<weingartenchatters%40yahoogroups.com>, "Gina Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gene's gone and you people are going BOWLing? (Using Gene's head?) (You do > know how all games involving balls got started?) > > Re charity return address labels - I can't really bring myself to use them, > BUT, for those of you made of sterner stuff, any unsolicited stuff you get > in the mail is yours to do with as you will. And when you use the stickers, > you are giving the charity publicity. > > __________________________________________________________ > Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more…then map the best > route! Check out Live Local today! http://local.live.com/?mkt=en- ca/ >
