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Squash
Also Known As Squash Rackets
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Squash is a racket sport for two players (or four in doubles) played in a four-walled enclosed court, in which players alternate striking a small rubber ball against the front wall using point-a-rally scoring to eleven points (PARS). The game grew out of rackets at Harrow School, England, around 1830, when boys noticed that a punctured, softer ball that squashed on impact with the wall produced a slower, more varied game than hard-ball rackets; that informal schoolboy origin long preceded any written rules. The first formal rules, combining elements of rackets, tennis and fives, were published in 1912, and the Squash Rackets Association (now England Squash) followed in 1928 to standardize the game nationally and internationally; the World Squash Federation, founded 1967 as the International Squash Rackets Federation, is squash's current global governing body.
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Origin YearMarks the informal, undocumented origin of squash at Harrow School around 1830, already described in this entity's own StatusNote; the entity's primary origin-year (1912) records the sport's first published formal rules instead. Originating Region International Governing BodyWorld Squash Federation, founded 5 January 1967 in Hastings, England, as the International Squash Rackets Federation; renamed World Squash Federation in 1992. 2 Disputed
Origin Year1912 marks the first published formal rules for squash, taken here as the sport's codified origin. The game itself is much older and undocumented in written rules: it developed informally from rackets at Harrow School around 1830, when a softer, punctured ball that squashed on wall impact produced a distinct, slower game, so squash's true beginning as an unwritten schoolboy pastime cannot be pinned to a single year. Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia, Squash (sport)
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boys at Harrow School noticed that a punctured ball, which squashed on impact with the wall, offered more variety
1. Wikipedia, Squash (sport)
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Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket sport
1. Wikipedia, Squash (sport)
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Later, around 1830, boys at Harrow School noticed that a punctured ball, which 'squashed' on impact with the wall, offered more variety to the game.
2. Wikipedia, World Squash Federation
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established at the first meeting held on January 5, 1967
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