Newcomb ball (also known simply as Newcomb, and sometimes spelled Newcombe (ball)) is a ball game played in a gymnasium or court using two opposing teams...

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published rules of women's basketball. She also developed the sport of Newcomb ball and played a role in the early development of netball. Baer was born...

until the 1920s. Prisoner Ball: Also played with volleyball court and a volleyball, prisoner ball is a variation of Newcomb ball where players are "taken...

Newcomb may refer to: Newcomb (surname), includes a list of people with the name Newcomb Bay Newcomb, Victoria, a residential suburb Newcomb Township,...

are common, and players holding the ball are sometimes allowed a limited number of steps. Newcomb (or Newcomb Ball) was invented in 1895 by Clara Gregory...

volleyball, the game's roots are linked with the YMCA. Both volleyball and Newcomb ball, while older games, share many similarities with throwball. Throwball...

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Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket sport game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions (12 by 24...

Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...

H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or Newcomb College, was the coordinate women's college of Tulane University located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state...

Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal...

Women's Basketball Guide. The same year women of Mount Holyoke and Sophie Newcomb College (coached by Clara Gregory Baer), began playing basketball. By 1895...

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form...

alai (/ˈhaɪ.əlaɪ/ HYE-ə-lye: [ˈxai aˈlai]) is a sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held...

members of the opposing team by hitting them with thrown balls, catching a ball thrown by an opponent, or inducing an opponent to commit a violation, such...

teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing...

Cycle-ball, also known as "radiball" (from German), is a sport similar to association football played on bicycles. The two people on each team ride a fixed...

or Sepaktakraw, also called buka ball, kick volleyball or foot volleyball, is a team sport. It is played with a ball made of rattan or synthetic plastic...

Korfball (Dutch: korfbal [ˈkɔr(ə)vbɑl]) is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. It is played by two teams of eight players with four...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several...

more than twice after receiving or dribbling the ball. The individual must pass, bounce, or shoot the ball before touching the wheels again. In some countries...

ball or throwing it, while the defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for...

return a ball from home base to the field and then circle the bases. Meanwhile, the other team tries to stop them by tagging them "out" with the ball before...

share broad characteristics of two opposing teams using sticks to propel a ball or disk into a goal. There are many types of hockey. Some games make the...

a new ball, although this is not required. The captain will usually take the new ball: being harder and smoother than an old ball, a new ball generally...

bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kicking, handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled; for...

the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward...

with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) permitted...

8–45.5 in) sticks and a 70–72 mm-diameter (2.76–2.83 in) hollow plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport...