Jacob Whitwam
Period:5/6
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The batter bats until he gets a hit or the pitcher throws the ball and it hits home
No foul balls, run no matter what on contact
Batter is out when he hits a pop-fly and its caught
Every player gets to hit once per inning
You must have fun
Must run clockwise around the bases
Batter is also out when fielder hits home if the batter has not touched the base
and then came back to home
YOU are allowed as many swings as you want.
3o ft. from base to home
Need a soft ball
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No rules
Ball was a pig bladder
1st team to score wins
No limit of players
Teams # of players were never the same
Field size changed from a dozen yards to 2 miles away
“Superbowl” of gameball was played on Shrove Thursday
Women and men played together
No penalty for hurting ref
Combined rugby, football, and soccer
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Quarterstaffs are long shafts that consisted of hard wood
Shaft had long fat pole between 6 and 9 ft
Sometimes quarterstaffs had metal tips cut out of iron
Made of hawthorn, ash, or oak
Striking
Jabbing
Bludgeoning
You have to swing heavy pole for defense
Need strength
Need speed
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Lance
Shield
Plate mail
Set of greaves
Leg protectors
Bracers or gauntless
Armored gloves
Helm
Heavy boots
horse
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Fast moving sport
Like hockey or lacrosse
Use curved stick called a caman
2 teams with 12 players on each team
Corked ball, similar in size with a tennis ball
First played = 1896
Stick made from ash of a tree
Game is 90 minutes long
Feet but not hands are used to stop the ball(unless you’re the keeper)
Stick is allowed to be swung ABOUT SHOULDER HEIGHT
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A medieval archer had a bow and arrow-sometimes called a bowman
The time to become an archer was quite lenghtley
You had to have expert marksmen skills
Lowerclassmen had to practice archery
Englishmen between 15 and 60 had to have a bow and arrow
The training helped the english kill 2000 french knights I n 1346 while only losing 50 men
Training places called the butts
Archery laws led to many accidents when people would get hit by loose arrows
Bow was 120 lbs
Archer was trained to shoot 12 to 15 arrows per minute
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No holds below the waist
Times could last many hours
Kicking, ”showing the toe”
Throw opponent to ground so he/she lands with both hips and one shoulder
squarely on the ground
Very few restrictions
Clasp hands behind other shoulders
Squatting down to protect your legs
Jumping up at your opponent
Go slow to lull your opponent to sleep
Grabbing and gouging opponent
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Originated scotland, england, ireland
Started when man took a chariot wheel, grabbed it by its axle, swung it around his head
and threw it
Changed when they used a boulder connected to a wooden hurdle
Received its name when king henry8 threw a sludge-hammer
Created by a forged iron
No uniformed weight or length
Swung it over their head and threw it standing still
English created a uniform weight of 16 lbs and a length of 3 feet 6 inches
Had to be thrown within a 7 foot circle in diameter
Athletes would turn 1-2 circles before they threw it
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Also called nine pins
Players take turns throwing wooden balls
Goal was to hit wooden skittles to knock them over
Each player would take a turn
Each player got 5 turns
Most pins knocked down at the end was winner
Pins at front worth fewest points
Pins in back worth most points
Skittles set up in patterns
Turn ends when ball comes to a stop
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Played on smooth lawn
Rolled balls for points
Rolled grapefruit sized balls
Rolled towards a target that smaller then a tennis ball
Gain points on whoever gets closest to target
Can knock opponents balls away
Only wealthy people could play
Played on lawns, carpets, mats, etc.
Didn’t want poor people playing because of loss of archery time
Poor could only play on christmas
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Connolly, Harold. “Hammer Throwing History.”
http://hammerthrow.com/technique/articles/history.htm
Green, Wenyeva A. “Stoolball: a Medieval Baseball Game.”
http://slumberland.org.sca/articles/stoolball.html.
Jewell, Brian. “Brief History of Wrestling in England.” http://www.theexiles.org/article.
“Medieval Games of Bowling. “
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia.bowls.
“Medieval Sports.” http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medievallife/medieval-archer.htm.
“Quarterstaff.” http://www.middle-ages.org.UK/quarterstaff.htm.
Reeves, Compton. “Game of the Month: Football.”
http://www.heronter.org/library/gameofthemonth/football.html.
“Rule for Toptafel.” http://www.mastergames.com/rules/toptafel-rules.htm.
“Shinty.” http://www.scottishsport.co.uk/othersports/shinty.htm.
White, David A. “Medieval Tournaments and Jousting.”
http://www.helium.com/items/626700-medievaltournaments-andjousting?page=2
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In stoolball, you are supposed to run counter-clockwise
around the bases
There is no limit of players in gameball
Quarterstaffs always consisted of metal tips made of iron.
Jousters did not use bracers or gauntless.
You may use your feet but not your hands in shinty.
A trained archer had to shoot 12-15 arrows per minute.
There were many restrictions in medieval wrestling.
The hammer in the hammer throw had to land in 7 ft. circle
in diameter.
You wanted to avoid hitting the wooden skittles for points
while playing skittles.
You can play bowls on many different surfaces.
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