The ancient Chinese sport cuju is perhaps the oldest soccer-like sport in the recorded history of ball sports though it does not directly tie in with the history of soccer.
The sport originated in China, but throughout its life was adopted by other countries including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, with its popularity dropping off beginning in the 14th century AD. Its primary elements remained fairly consistent with characteristics of modern soccer, though. It was played in a rectangular field typically marked with low walls or thread.
There were one or two goals positioned in the middle of the field, which players attempted to pass the ball through. In the traditional style of the game, zhuqui , there was only one goal, and each team would try to pass the ball through it from their respective sides in order to score.
A variation of cuju called baida had individual players taking turns at attempting to score a goal without interference, earning extra points for demonstration of skill and style. This variation was especially popular among women. See the Play Today! Another notable Chinese ball sport was the game of chuiwan , played as early as the 5th century AD. Depictions and descriptions of this game bear remarkable similarity to golf, as the goal of the player was to use a club to drive a small wooden ball into a hole.
Ball sports seem to have been less popular in the ancient Middle East than they were in other regions. Cultures here seemed to have preferred combat sports such as malla-yuddha , Turkish wrestling, and the like. However, ancient Egyptian illustrations at various sites depict people engaging in what might be considered ball sports. One of these depictions clearly shows ancient Egyptians juggling, and others seem to depict people throwing balls back and forth. Whether these illustrations depict a simple game of catch or something more structured and sport-like is unclear, but this serves as a solid anchor for the history of ball sports, as it tells us ancient Egyptian culture likely participated in games like these.
This could place a historical anchor for ball sports somewhere from the end of the 4th millennium BC at the earliest to the middle of the 1st millennium BC at the latest, though solid records are scant. Within the history of ball sports, a number of games can be found in African culture, primarily in the form of field hockey sports. However, an absence of written culture and lack of solid archaeological evidence makes it difficult to determine much of the history of these games.
As such, the only references to a history or general point of origin for any sport typically lie in its legends. For example, most of the Greek Panhellenic games have origin legends that attribute the start of each festival to some figure centuries before the actual date of origin suggested by archaeological evidence.
One of these sports is the Ethiopian game of genna , which is still played today. This is a field hockey sport played in a large field without borders or markers, on which sometimes cattle graze through during a game.
Modern players tell a legend that when Jesus was born and news of his birth reached shepherds in the local area, they were so overjoyed that they picked up their crooks, started hitting a ball around, and invented the sport on the spot. If this legend has any credibility, it would place its origin sometime within 4 to 6 AD. As such, its date of origin is unclear, though it still serves as an example of the presence of ball sports in African history.
Ancient Greek culture hosted a game somewhat similar to American football — perhaps the earliest game of its kind in the history of ball sports. References to the sport indicate the game involved interceptions, fumbles, tackles, and other football-esque features. There is a commonly cited, but false, claim that episkyros was similar to modern soccer. This is discussed in further detail here. The sport inspired the invention of the Roman ball game harpastum , which was a sort of inversion of the former.
Players would pass the ball among their teammates in an effort to keep it in their zone while the opposing team would attempt to intercept it and take it back to their own. This sport was more violent than its predecessor as it involved wrestling holds in addition to tackles and the like.
Records and educated conjecture regarding the rules of both sports are detailed in their respective articles. Medieval Europe had a substantial place in the history of ball sports. Irish hurling and Scottish shinty appear to share roots with the same Gaelic ball-and-stick sport that was played from at least the beginning of the Middle Ages.
The Dark Ages and medieval period in Europe hosted many different ball sports with seemingly endless variation. Sports worthy of note are Irish caid , Welsh cnapan , and French la soule ; all regional variations of mob football. These games shared the same basic format and some common characteristics, including expansive playing fields over miles of landscape, large numbers of players sometimes reaching several thousand , and long matches lasting most of the day.
In these games, each team would try to get a ball to a predetermined goal in their own parish, which was typically miles away from the starting point of the match. The method of ball handling varied for each sport among throwing, kicking, running, stick handling as in field hockey , and even carrying atop horseback in the case of cnapan.
For example, a wooden ball was used in cnapan and sometimes in la soule , which would naturally discourage kicking the ball as to avoid injury to the foot.
Teams playing these sports were typically made up of members of neighboring parishes or villages — sometimes almost the entire male population. Historical records seem to indicate these games were played almost exclusively by men, likely due to the violence and high risk of injury involved.
With several hundred men skirmishing for one ball some of them on horseback in certain cases , accidents such as broken limbs, accidental stabbings, and, occasionally, cases of unintentional manslaughter were not unheard of. These medieval ball sports, sharing the same basic format, are thought to have heavily influenced both each other and the development of soccer , rugby , and American football.
In the 19th century, what remained of the medieval Irish sport caid was mixed with elements from Irish hurling to form what is known today as Gaelic football. Beginning in , settler William Thomas — observed several instances of a game called marn grook. He noted all the rules he could make out, but even after watching several matches he could never fully understand the sport.
Marn grook could have been played centuries before the writings of William Thomas, though this will likely never be known. In this game, the goal is to use the feet and knees to keep a ball airborne, much like a hacky sack. William Blandowski — , a Prussian scientist who spent some time in Australia among the Aboriginal people, recorded his viewing of a sport in that by all descriptions matches woggabaliri.
Like marn grook , this game was likely practiced for a long time before then. This one is easy! Woggabaliri is essentially the same as hacky sack, so grab some friends and a leather footbag and see how long you can keep it up! The Mesoamerican region is home to some of the oldest recorded ball sports in the world. As early as BC, the ancient Mesoamericans were crafting rubber balls from the latex of the rubber tree for a variety of uses.
Alongside religious and ritualistic purposes, they also used these early rubber balls for various sports.
One of the oldest sports in the world used these same balls. Delve into the massive single-player campaign that lets you manage even the smallest of details, get used to the controls and the fighting mechanics, and then jump into the hilariously massive multiplayer world. Bannerlord improves on nearly everything that the original and its expansion have created.
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Has an immersive atmosphere. Feudal Alloy. Ancestors Legacy. Devious Dungeon. This game evolved into a team sport with two stools or targets places a distance apart and with the defender of the stool using a bat.
If the batter or his teammate is caught out of the safe zone or hits a ball that is caught in the air, then the batter is out. The game is the forerunner of cricket. Cricket is a form of base-ball where there is a batting side and a defending side of 11 players. In cricket 10 players bat in consecutive order until all are put out. Like stool-ball there is a batter who defends the wicket or stumps while attempting to hit the ball and run to the opposite stumps. Four runs can be scored if the batter hits the ball on the ground over the boundary line on the oval pitch.
If the batter hits the ball in the air over the boundary line, then six runs are scored. Batters can be put out run out by the defense throwing the ball and hitting the stumps or by touching the stumps before the running makes it to the crease.
Batters can also be put out when a defender catches a ball in the air caught out. Another way a batter can make an out is for the batter to block the wicket with his leg leg before wicket. The first complete set of rules appeared in The game and cultural diffusion of cricket spread throughout the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, first when the British expelled the French from Canada and India and then through extending their rule over much of the African continent.
It became more than a game, it became an institution, a passion, one might suggest a religion. It had got into the blood of the nation, deeply ingrained into the culture. Whenever British men and women gather there will be stumps, batters, and bowlers. An example of this played out when the Australians four years earlier beat the British, then in again beat the British on their home soil in London in The news paper printed a mock obituary. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances.
The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Guttman, Most American baseball historians accept their sport evolved from rounders. In the Liverpool and Scottish Rounders Association was formed established the official rule, one of which was eliminating the practice of throwing and hitting a runner to put the runner out. Today rounders is played by over two million school children in the United Kingdom. The rules are presented here to illustrate the similarities of rounders and American baseball.
The basic rules are as follows:. Welsh Baseball is a game that evolved from rounders and was re-named baseball in It has been largely confined to Cardiff and Newport, and further to the working-class sections of those towns. Sixty neighborhood clubs were playing in , and the Cardiff schools formed a baseball league in The game uses a smaller ball than is found in US baseball, features a flattened bat, underhand pitching, eleven aside teams, no foul ground, an all-out-side out rule, and two innings.
Welsh Baseball is a game with deep roots in the working-class culture of Wales. To celebrate their culture as it relates to baseball, see the video below. Pesapallo is a direct translation of the American word baseball: Pesa is Finnish for base and pallo means ball. Pesapallo is the national game of Finland. It is a combination of traditional ball-batting teams games and American baseball.
The game changed with the times and has grown in popularity. One unique difference between Pesapallo and American baseball is the direction of first base, the base paths start with the runner running to the left, then diagonally across to second base, then straight across to third base, then to home base see diagram below.
The rules of the game are quite complicated, but the idea of the game is simple. One team tries to score by hitting the ball and running through the bases, the other team tries to defend by catching the ball and putting the runners out.
The key to the game and the most important difference between Pesapollo and American baseball is the vertical pitching. Here the pitcher tosses the ball above a round plate on the ground.
This makes hitting the ball, as well as controlling the power and direction of the hit much easier. This gives the offensive game much more variety, speed and tactical dimensions than in baseball. The manager has an important role in pesapallo. The offensive and defensive strategies include several prepared plays for every situation.
Thanks to the continuous communication, decision making and seamless co-operation on the field makes the game a demanding and interesting team sport, suitable for the modern information era. Summary of the Rules. The modern game is played in two periods of four innings each.
A period is won by the team which scores more runs in its offensive half-innings. If each team wins one of the periods, the game is decided by an extra period that consist of one inning.
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