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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Clara Gregory Baer (section Newcomb ball)
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...
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Lawn bowls Loofball Mesoamerican ballgame Netball Fast5 Newcomb ball Padbol Paddle ball Paddle-ball Paddle tennis Padel Paintball Palin Pelota mixteca Pesäpallo...
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Volleyball (redirect from Volley ball)
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...
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Volleyball variations (section Newcomb ball)
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...
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Newcomb may refer to: Newcomb (surname), includes a list of people with the name Newcomb Bay Newcomb, Victoria, a residential suburb Newcomb Township,...
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List of sports (section Ball games)
family Horseshoe Hurling Kickball Lacrosse Loofball Mesoamerican ballgame Newcomb ball Polo Paintball Quidditch Ringette Roller derby Rowing Sepak takraw Ultimate...
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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...
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Throwball (redirect from Throw ball)
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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Benford's law (redirect from Newcomb-Benford’s Law)
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...
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Basketball (redirect from Basket ball)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Cycle-ball, also known as "radball" (from German), is a sport similar to association football played on bicycles. The two people on each team ride a fixed...
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Dodgeball (redirect from Dodge ball)
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...
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Sepak takraw (redirect from Buka ball)
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...
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Floorball (redirect from Floor ball)
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...
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American football (redirect from American foot ball)
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...
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Paintball (redirect from Paint ball)
and dye. The quality of paintballs is dependent on the brittleness of the ball's shell, the roundness of the sphere, and the thickness of the fill; higher-quality...
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Bat-and-ball games Net and wall games Ball badminton Biribol Bossaball Fistball Fives Eton Rugby Footbag net Football tennis Footvolley Jianzi Jokgu Newcomb ball...
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Very few organized sports have been invented by women. Sports such as Newcomb ball, netball, acrobatic gymnastics, and tumbling, and possibly stoolball...
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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...
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SlamBall is a hybrid sport combining elements from basketball, football, hockey, and gymnastics played with four trampolines in front of each net and boards...
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