Sport vocab and comarison

Golf

●Golf was first played in Scotland in
1744

●The first official rules of golf were
written in 1744

●Old golf balls were made of feathers!

Bowling

●Ten-pin bowling was formalized in
the 1840s in the USA

●But ancient forms of bowling date
back 5,000 years in Egypt

Baseball

●Modern baseball rules were created in 1845 by

Alexander Cartwright in the USA

●The longest baseball game ever played lasted 33

innings!

Soccer

●Modern soccer rules were set in 1863
in England

●Soccer is the most popular sport with
4 billion fans!

Open Ended

1. Who is your favorite soccer player?

2. If you could change one rule in soccer to make the game more exciting, what would it be and why?

Tennis

●Modern tennis was created in 1873 in
England

●Wimbledon is the oldest tennis
tournament

●Players must wear all white at
Wimbledon

Table Tennis

●Table tennis (Ping Pong) was developed in the 1880s in

England

●It was called "Whiff-Whaff" and people used books as

paddles!

Softball

●Softball was invented in 1887 in
Chicago as an indoor version of
baseball

●They used a boxing glove as the ball!

Basketball

●Basketball was invented in 1891 by
Dr. James Naismith in Massachusetts

●They used a soccer ball and peach
baskets for goals

Volleyball

●Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan in

Massachusetts

●It was called "mintonette" and made for older people to play

instead of basketball

Dodgeball

●The modern version of dodgeball
started in 1905 in the USA

●In the past, it was played with rocks,
but now it's with soft balls!

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