I was curious if ancient people REALLY played ball with skulls (human or otherwise). It sounded just crazy enough to possibly be true.
--- In [email protected], "Daria Akers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Cliff. > > 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. > > >
