"East and West Coasts (hence the label ""Western"" given to Horine's style). The initial objections, due to the ""no diving"" rule then in force, were overcome by the development of a Western roll style in which the lead foot precedes the head in crossing the bar. Another Western athlete, Alma Richards of Utah, won the 1912 Olympic high jump using a Western roll with a more frontal, feet-first, approach. While the ""no diving"" rule was still in force, the world high jump record was captured by a series of Western roll jumpers: George Horine (1912, ), Edward Beeson (1914), Harold"
"Western roll was gradually replacing an earlier jumping style called the scissors-jump. In the Western roll, the bar was approached on a diagonal—the inner leg used for the take‑off, while the outer leg was thrust up to lead the body sideways over the bar. Using the Western roll, George Horine first took the world high jump standard to in 1912. Horine is sometimes cited as the originator of the style. Osborn worked on his own form and obviously paid attention to the style that was developing as he competed in high school and at the University of Illinois. He modified"
"Fosbury Flop The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention. Over the next few years, the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains so today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or even scissors jump to clear the bar. Given that landing surfaces had previously been sandpits or low piles of matting, high jumpers of earlier years had to land"
"Wellie wanging Welly throwing, also known as welly hoying, welly wanging and boot throwing, is a sport in which competitors are required to throw a Wellington boot as far as possible. The sport appears to have originated in the West Country of England in the 1970s, and rapidly became a popular activity at village fêtes and fundraising events across Britain. The sport is now played in many different countries, including Australia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Russia. Depending on local custom, different rules are applied to the sport. In parts of Somerset, for example, the boot is"
"Hoop rolling Hoop rolling, also called hoop trundling, is both a sport and a child's game in which a large hoop is rolled along the ground, generally by means of an object wielded by the player. The aim of the game is to keep the hoop upright for long periods of time, or to do various tricks. Hoop rolling has been documented since antiquity in Africa, Asia and Europe. Played as a target game, it is an ancient tradition widely dispersed among different societies. In Asia, the earliest records date from Ancient China, and in Europe from Ancient Greece. In"
"Angleball Angleball is a registered sports fitness organization and equipment manufacturer for North America's oldest sport, anejodi. Angleball's anejodi rules were reestablished as an American tradition during World War 2 at Brown University by collegiate Hall of Fame football and basketball coach Charles ""Rip"" Engle (March 26, 1906 – March 7, 1983) to keep American World War 2 servicemen fit prior to deployment. Angleball equipment is currently played by 1,000,000+ people in the United States and worldwide and for conditioning in the NFL and by Team USA Olympic athletes. Since 2014, Angleball has inspired a recurring game-type in the world's"
"west coast (Stanford). Horine was in fact the first to improve on Sweeney's record, when he cleared 6 ft 7 inches (2.01 m) in 1912. Although succeeded by the more efficient layout techniques of the western roll and (in the 1930s) by the straddle, the eastern cut-off continued to be competitive at an international level until the 1940s in the men's high jump, and until the 1960s in the women's high jump. It was used by John Winter of Australia to win the high jump in the Olympics of 1948, and by Iolanda Balas of Romania to win the women's"
"onto a cushioned landing area. The men's high jump was included in the 1896 Olympics and a women's competition followed in 1928. Jumping technique has played a significant part in the history of the event. High jumpers typically cleared the bar feet first in the late 19th century, using either the Scissors, Eastern cut-off or Western roll technique. The straddle technique became prominent in the mid-20th century, but Dick Fosbury overturned tradition by pioneering a backwards and head-first technique in the late 1960s – the Fosbury Flop – which won him the gold at the 1968 Olympics. This technique has"
"He also competed for USA in exhibition baseball tournament in Stockholm. George Horine George Leslie Horine (February 3, 1890 – November 28, 1948) was an American athlete who mainly competed in the high jump. He is credited with developing a technique called a forerunner to the western roll, a technique he developed due to the layout of his backyard where he practiced which was considered ""backward"" at the time. While on the track team at Stanford University, his technique was corrected to the more conventional jumping style of the time. He equalled the NCAA record in the event at 6'"
"Wheelchair rugby is also an included sport in regional events such as the Parapan American Games. Since 2000, it has been one of the sports of the Summer Paralympic Games. Wheelchair rugby was featured in the Oscar-nominated 2005 documentary ""Murderball"". It was voted the #1 Top Sport Movie of all time by the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes. The character Jason Street in the NBC television show ""Friday Night Lights"", having been paralyzed in a game of American football in the pilot, tries out for the United States quad rugby team in a later episode. Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally"
"the winner. The most common technique for striking the wheel is ""tunnel ball style"": the player stands facing away from the goals, feet either side of the wheel; the short-handled mallet is then swung backwards between the player's legs to strike the wheel. The less common technique, used in the early years and more common in the women's version of the game, has the player stand to the side of the wheel and strike it with a side-swing, similar to a short golf swing (""side sweeping style""). The sport is played by both men and women. The game is traditionally"
"the West, the most common materials for the equipment have been wood and metal. Wooden hoops, driven with a stick about one foot long, are struck with the centre or the 2/3 point of the stick in order to ensure good progress. Metal hoops, instead of being struck, are often guided by a metal hook. A version of hoop rolling played as a target game is encountered as an ancient tradition among aboriginal peoples in many parts of the world. The game, known as hoop-and-pole, is ubiquitous throughout most of Africa. It is also found on other continents. In America,"
"Wheelchair rugby league Wheelchair rugby league is a wheelchair-based version of rugby league football. It was developed by French rugby league player, coach and official, Robert Fassolette and Wally Salvan in 2004. Unlike other wheelchair sports, people without disabilities are allowed to compete in top level competition. The game shares many features with regular rugby league: The game then sees its own particular rules: The inaugural Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup was held at indoor venues in Sydney, Australia in 2008. The 2013 Wheelchair RL World Cup was held in Gillingham, England in July. And the last WRL World Cup"
"sport. Roller-skating races were professional from an early stage. Professional World Championships were arranged in North America between the competitors on that circuit. Later, roller derby leagues appeared, a professional contact sport that originally was a form of racing. FIRS World Championships of inline speed skating go back to the 1980s, but many world champions, such as Derek Parra and Chad Hedrick, have switched to ice in order to win Olympic medals. Like roller skating, ice speed skating was also professional in North America. Oscar Mathisen, five-time ISU world champion and three-time European champion, renounced his amateur status in 1916"
"with the Irish-American Michael Sweeney's ""Eastern cut-off"". By taking off like the scissors and extending his spine and flattening out over the bar, Sweeney raised the world record to in 1895. Another American, George Horine, developed an even more efficient technique, the ""Western roll"". In this style, the bar again is approached on a diagonal, but the inner leg is used for the take-off, while the outer leg is thrust up to lead the body sideways over the bar. Horine increased the world standard to in 1912. His technique was predominant through the Berlin Olympics of 1936, in which the"
"Bowls Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a ""jack"" or ""kitty"". It is played on a bowling green which may be flat (for ""flat-green bowls"") or convex or uneven (for ""crown green bowls""). It is normally played outdoors (although there are many indoor venues) and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf, or cotula (in New Zealand). It has been traced certainly to the 13th century, and conjecturally to the 12th. William Fitzstephen (d. about 1190), in his"
"Canadian Debbie Brill started doing the ""Brill Bend"" about the same time, but Fosbury got the most exposure, winning the Olympics. The prevailing methods involved jumping forwards or sideways, styles called the Roll or ""Western Roll"" and previous to that, the ""Scissors"" style. After Fosbury's victory, the flop became almost the only style used by elite competitors. This was the first Olympics to do drug testing, though primarily these initial searches were for narcotics and stimulants. 1968 in athletics While the most notable story coming out of 1968 was Socio-Political, politics involved with the Olympics was not something unique to"
"making hoop-poles. At Bryn Mawr College, Wellesley College, and Wheaton College, the Hoop Rolling Contest is an annual spring tradition that dates back to 1895, and is only open to graduating seniors on that college's May Day celebration. Hoop rolling Hoop rolling, also called hoop trundling, is both a sport and a child's game in which a large hoop is rolled along the ground, generally by means of an object wielded by the player. The aim of the game is to keep the hoop upright for long periods of time, or to do various tricks. Hoop rolling has been documented"
"through the 1930s. The Plimpton skate is still used today. Eventually, roller skating evolved from just a pastime to a competitive sport; speed skating, racing on skates, and inline figure skating, very similar to what you see in the Olympics on ice. In the mid 1990s roller hockey, played with a ball rather than a puck, became so popular that it even made an appearance in the Olympics in 1992. The National Sporting Goods Association statistics showed, from a 1999 study, that 2.5 million people played roller hockey. Roller Skating was considered for the 2012 Summer Olympics but has never"
"Finger roll The finger roll is a specialized type of basketball layup shot where the ball is rolled off the tips of the player's fingers. The advantage of the finger roll is that the ball can travel high in the air over a defender that might otherwise block a regular jump shot or dunk, while the spin applied by the rolling over the fingers will carry the ball to the basket off the backboard. The shot was pioneered by center Wilt Chamberlain in the 1960s. The finger roll is notorious for being very difficult to master, and few players use"
"the 1966 Games, the sport has been included in all Games since their inception in 1930. Glasgow, Scotland hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games, with Jo Edwards (New Zealand) and Darren Burnett (Scotland) winning the singles gold medals. Bowls Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a ""jack"" or ""kitty"". It is played on a bowling green which may be flat (for ""flat-green bowls"") or convex or uneven (for ""crown green bowls""). It is normally played outdoors (although there are many indoor"
"is a variation of roller hockey. Roller hockey is the overarching name for a rollersport that has existed long before inline skates were ""re-invented"" in the 70s (They were actually invented before quads, in the 1760s). Roller hockey has been played on quad skates, in sixty countries worldwide and so has many names worldwide. Sometimes the sport is called Quad Hockey, (PT), (NL), (DE), International Style Ball hockey, (FR), (IT), (CA), (ES), (DA), (S), (ET) and Hardball hockey (US), depending on which region of the world it is played. Roller hockey was a demonstration rollersport in the 1992 Summer Olympics"
"is probably still unmatched for sheer power. His freestyle skills did not take a back seat. He was adept at intricate moves, especially in the speed flow game. He was also an innovator. It is believed that he was the first person to do a body roll. The hottest move of the day was called the ""Canadian Mind blower"" which was a front roll to a foot tip to a backroll. At a North American Series (NAS) Frisbee tournament in Dallas Texas, Westerfield became a member of the ""400 club"" with a prelim distance sidearm throw (also known as forehand),"
"Rees, Howard Winstone, Jim Driscoll, Steve Robinson and Robbie Regan. British baseball, sometimes called Welsh baseball, or in the areas where it is popular simply baseball, is a bat-and-ball game played primarily in Wales and England. It is closely related to the game of rounders, and emerged as a distinct sport when governing bodies in Wales and England agreed to change the name of the game from ""rounders"" when the rules were codified in 1892. The sport was at its peak in Wales in the 1930s, and is most popular in the cities of Cardiff and Newport. As a traditional"
"Stoolball Stoolball is a sport that dates back to at least the 15th century, originating in Sussex, southern England. It may be an ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles), baseball, and rounders, in fact stoolball is sometimes called ""cricket in the air"". There is a tradition that it was played by milkmaids who used their milking stools as a ""wicket"" and the bittle, or milk bowl as a bat. Hence its archaic name of ""bittle-battle."" The sport of stoolball is strongly associated with Sussex; it has been referred to as Sussex's 'national' sport and a Sussex game or pastime."
"fairs and sporting events. Disc sports such as freestyle, double disc court, guts, ultimate and disc golf became this sports first events. Two sports, the team sport of disc ultimate and disc golf are popular worldwide and are now being played semi-professionally. The World Flying Disc Federation, Professional Disc Golf Association, and the Freestyle Players Association are the official rules and sanctioning organizations for flying disc sports worldwide. Major League Ultimate (MLU) and the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL) are the first semi-professional disc ultimate leagues. Westerfield is a Frisbee (disc) player from the 1960s. A Hall of Fame inductee"
"was held in the south of France in July 2017. Wheelchair rugby league Wheelchair rugby league is a wheelchair-based version of rugby league football. It was developed by French rugby league player, coach and official, Robert Fassolette and Wally Salvan in 2004. Unlike other wheelchair sports, people without disabilities are allowed to compete in top level competition. The game shares many features with regular rugby league: The game then sees its own particular rules: The inaugural Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup was held at indoor venues in Sydney, Australia in 2008. The 2013 Wheelchair RL World Cup was held in"
"the roll of a die. In many games, the side on which a tossed piece lands (horse, sheep, camel, or goat) is significant. For one of the most popular games, there are even public tournaments held, most commonly played during the traditional Naadam festival. In this game, pieces are flicked with the middle finger of one hand, along a wooden board (""khashlaga"" = fence rail) held in the other hand. The goal is to hit a target piece over a distance of about 10 m. An ankle bone shooting game was played under the name of at the 2014 World"
"wheel-chair rugby were played in Pembrey, near Llanelli, Wales as early as the 1960s. Photo of early game c1960's At that time, wheelchair basketball was the most common team sport for wheelchair users. That sport's physical requirement for players to dribble and shoot baskets relegated quadriplegic athletes, with functional impairments to both their upper and lower limbs, to supporting roles. The new sport — originally called ""murderball"" due to its aggressive, full-contact nature — was designed to allow quadriplegic athletes with a wide range of functional ability levels to play integral offensive and defensive roles. Murderball was first introduced into"
"Eastern Warriors). There were also several attempts in markets that failed quickly, with teams such as the Baltimore/Washington-based Mid Atlantic War Cats, the Florida Jets, and the Western Renegades. Roller Games also encompassed the Canadian National Roller League (CNRL) and Japanese National Roller League (JNRL). Some former Roller Derby stars found new fame in the Roller Games, and a handful of skaters simply went back and forth between the two organizations. After 1968, however, the Roller Derby to Roller Games defections were quite few; instead, a handful of Roller Games skaters returned to their roots and began skating for the"
"and boys. The Oxford English Dictionary considers it unlikely that ""stool ball"" could have been corrupted into ""stobball"". Stoolball Stoolball is a sport that dates back to at least the 15th century, originating in Sussex, southern England. It may be an ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles), baseball, and rounders, in fact stoolball is sometimes called ""cricket in the air"". There is a tradition that it was played by milkmaids who used their milking stools as a ""wicket"" and the bittle, or milk bowl as a bat. Hence its archaic name of ""bittle-battle."" The sport of stoolball is strongly"
"after the 2018 Commonwealth Games"" World Bowls Events Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games Bowls is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games. It was not included in the programme of the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica due to no sufficient bowling greens being available. Along the swimming, athletics, cycling, table tennis, cycling, powerlifting and triathlon is"
"throw of 15 seconds, using a Super Pro Model Frisbee, beating the old record of 11 seconds. Also in 1975, Westerfield invented a new freestyle move called ""body-roll"", (rolling the disc across outstretched arms and chest, or back), then introduced the move in a freestyle event at a national tournament in Rochester, NY called the AFDO, (American Flying Disc Open). The hottest move of the day was called the, ""Canadian mind blower"". Westerfield would roll the Frisbee across outstretched arms and chest, to outstretched arms across the back (front to back-roll). Today body-rolls (rolls) are an integral part of every"