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October 03, 2015

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HISTORY OF HANDBALL

Handball is the newest game within the sport games' category but its development and origin goes back in history. Ball games were gaining popularity at the turn of the century in Europe. Various ball games were played but the most comparable to handball game was Konrad Koch's Raffballspiel game. It was played in German schools in the 1890s. As we know today, the modern game of handball developed from 3 ball games. In Bohemia in the middle of the 1890s a ball game, called Hazena was developing. In the beginning of 1900, teachers Vaclav Karas and Kristof Antonin were regularly teaching the handball-like game in the schools of Prague. Vaclav Karas also published the rules of the game in a Bernese technical journal in 1905. At around the same time a new ball game was born in Denmark. In one of the schools the school doctor advised the school director to prohibit the play of soccer because of the many injuries it caused. Students were not allowed t...

Hello people, if you have actually visited my blog before i am saying a very big thank you to you. From now on, this blog will be dedicated to bringing you information about different types of sport ranging from the history of sport to the latest games of the sport.

HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL In 2014, the sport of Volleyball is 119 years old! The sport originated in the United States, and is now just achieving the type of popularity in the U.S. that it has received on a global basis, where it ranks behind only soccer among participation sports. Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week. In 1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called, mintonette ). Morgan borrowed the net ...

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