The Origins of Seven Popular Sports and Their Backstories Might Surprise You
Lacrosse predates the printing press. His two older British sports, rugby and soccer (or association football), originated in North America, mostly in colleges in the United States, in the late 19th century. In 1867, Montreal dentist George Beers wrote the sport’s first rulebook. In 1772, the Englishman Robert Jones wrote a treatise on skating, the first figure in his skating textbook, which described how to create circles, squiggles, spirals, figure eights, and other shapes on ice. Over the next 100 years, these 13 rules were adopted by more than 30 of his clubs and helped formalize the sport as we know it today.
These origins might surprise you and shock you about how long they’ve been around: The Origins of 7 Popular Sports – HISTORY
- Published in Sport Equipment