Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

History of Golf

Posted on March 30th, 2010 by by Big History

Term “golf” traces its origin in the recorded accounts such as Scottish Statute, written in 1457, on forbidden games as gouf, most probably derived from the Scottish word ‘goulf’, spelled differently, with the same meaning ‘to hit or cuff’. The recorded history does not give any true depiction of the origination of the game of [...]

History of Tennis

Posted on March 28th, 2010 by by Big History

Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera invented a game that combined involvement of rackets and the Basque ball game pelota, that they had played on Perera’s croquet lawn in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In 1872, with the help of two local doctors, they laid the foundation stone of the first tennis club of the world [...]

A Brief History of Volleyball

Posted on January 6th, 2010 by by Big History

Volleyball is a sport played in a court by two teams consisting of six players each with a net between them. A ball is punched across the net by the player and the objective is to score points by grounding the ball against the opposing team. Each team is allowed only three contacts with the ball before [...]

A Brief History of Football

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by by Big History

Football is a sport and it is also known as American Football involving two opposing teams of players competing for territory on a football field using a ball and set play with the objective being to get the ball to the goal line of the opposing team by either scoring a running touchdown or kicking [...]