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17 January 1597 — a court of law in Guildford heard from a 59-year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "hee and diverse of his fellows did runne and play at creckett and other plaies " on common land which was the subject of the current legal dispute ...
The claim that Webb Ellis invented the game did not surface until four years after his death, and doubts have been raised about the story since 1895 when the Old Rugbeian Society first investigated it. The sub-committee conducting the investigation was "unable to procure any first-hand evidence of the occurrence". [13]
This category is for the inventors or innovators of sports (such as inventing basketball) or things crucial to modern sports (such as inventing billiards cue tip chalk or plastic balls). People who had a minor impact (such as coming up with a rules variation or producing a specific product line among many) should not be placed in this category.
These new radical ideas about sports made their way into books, and films, and eventually became part of the social culture during the Renaissance. As mentioned by Mike Huggins, Gargantua written by François Rabelais was a well-known novel published in 1534 that mentioned sports and games as a unit, like many other renowned works of literature.
The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of enigmatology. After starting his career at Penny Press and Games magazine, he was hired by The New York Times in 1993.
In his 80s, Butts invented another game, titled simply Alfreds Other Game, [12] released in 1985 by Selchow and Righter. [13] Also a tile-based game, it includes 144 letter tiles and four playing boards. [4] Players receive 36 letters from which they try to make as many word combinations as possible. [14] Butts called it "simultaneous solitaire ...
Patrick D. Berry (born 1970) is an American puzzle creator and editor who constructs crossword puzzles and variety puzzles. He had 227 crosswords published in The New York Times from 1999 to 2018. His how-to guide for crossword construction was first published as a For Dummies book in 2004.