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Three-wall handball court with two games in progress. American handball, known as handball in the United States and sometimes referred to as wallball, is a sport in which players use their hands to hit a small, rubber ball against a wall such that their opponent(s) cannot do the same without the ball touching the ground twice or hitting out-of-bounds.
Paul Haber (1937–2003) was an American one, three, and four wall National Handball champion. Haber is credited with being the first player to use the ceiling offensively and did so very effectively. He was inducted into the United States Handball Association Hall of Fame in 1983. Paul Haber was born of Polish Jewish ancestry in the Bronx in ...
Oscar Obert (1931 – June 24, 2016) was an American one, three, and four wall National Handball Champion. [1]Obert won 42 open national and world titles (which includes twenty open USHA national titles), more than any other player in the history of the sport.
He was one of the best handball players ever to play the sport. [1] Chapman dominated the four-wall game for 11 years, from 1993 to 2004, winning eight United States Handball Association (USHA) national singles titles and seven national doubles titles in that period. He also won two World singles championships, and two world doubles ...
[2] [3] Jacobs was offered the chance to try out for the US Olympic basketball team but declined in order to focus on handball. [4] He was drafted into the army during the Korean War and was awarded a Purple Heart. [3] In four-wall handball, Jacobs won his first American singles championship in 1955, defeating Vic Hershkowitz in the final in ...
Many of the handball leaders of the DAAV were chosen to lead the handball committee of the AAU. [15] In 1942 the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized all records of the German American Athletic Union. [16] After World War II, handball had no national body until 1959 as the United States Team Handball Federation was founded. In the same ...
Net and wall games, such as volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce. Cue sports, such as pool and snooker. Target sports, such as golf and bowling. Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball, and four square.
One-wall handball, also known as International fronton, is a code of both American handball and Gaelic handball; Suicide (game), a game where players throw a rubber ball at a wall, and at opponents; Wallball (children's game), a North American schoolyard game similar to squash; Chinese handball, a 20th century North American street game