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.
> >
>


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