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Have you ever wondered of how the games we play nowadays exist? What’s the origin of the games and their history?

Here are the history for several famous games. They might be true or false and not exactly like what had written. So, do search to know more.

Basketball
In December 1891, Canadian-born James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) training school, took a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym and invented basketball. In 1893, James Naismith replaced the peach basket with iron hoops and a hammock-style basket. Ten years later came the open-ended nets of today. Before that, you had to retrieve your ball from the basket every time you scored.

Netball
The history of netball can be traced to the early development of basketball. A year after basketball was invented in 1891, the sport was modified for women to accommodate social conventions regarding their participation in sport, giving rise to women's basketball.

Table tennis
Table tennis draws its origins from the 1800s when some really rich Victorians from England were trying to figure out a sport which they could play inside. After watching game of tennis, these affluent Englanders then utilized a table, some cigarette box lids for paddles, and a cork for a ball.

The Ping Pong name was derived from the sound the ball gave when it hits the table.

Badminton
Games with a shuttlecock are widely believed to have originated in ancient Greece about 2000 years ago. In England since medieval times a children's game called Battledore and Shuttlecock was popular. Children would use paddles (Battledores) and work together to keep the shuttlecock up in the air and prevent it from reaching the ground.

In the 1860s, British Army officers in Pune, India, began playing the game of Battledore and Shuttlecock, but they added a competitive element by including a net. As the city of Pune was formerly known as Poona, the game was known as Poona at that time.

About this same time, the Duke of Beaufort was entertaining soldiers at his estate called "Badminton House", where the soldiers played Poona. The Duke of Beaufort's non-military guests began referring to the game as "the badminton game", and thus the game became known as "Badminton".

Tennis
Tennis originated from a 12th century French game called paume (meaning palm); it was a court game where the ball was struck with the hand. Paume evolved into jeu de paume and rackets were used. The game spread and evolved in Europe. In 1873, Major Walter Wingfield invented a game called Sphairistikè (Greek for "playing ball) from which modern outdoor tennis evolved.

Hockey
The game of Hockey has been around from the time of early civilization. Some of the reports find the earliest origin of the game 4000 years back. Basically known as the “ball and stick” game, it was played since ancient times in places diverse as Rome, Scotland, Egypt and South America. The game was referred to in different names but the basic idea of playing the game was the same. The most apt used term was “Hockie” by the Irish. Though the term was coined centuries ago, the word found its way through to the present generation.

That's all for now. Relax time has finished. So, go back to your books and lecture notes, guyss!! All the best in your final.

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