I understand that at one time basketballs, like footballs, were closed with laces. When did that change?
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Rawlings' RSS Seam-Sealed basketball was introduced in 1948 and has been a best seller ever since.  Laced basketballs were still on the market at this time but were declining in popularity.\n\nThe rules on the construction of the ball were changed in 1949 to require a ball with leather cover of the molded type in which the leather panels were not stitched together, but "cemented to the spherically molded fabric which surrounds on air-tight rubber lining."\n\nSo in a nutshell rules prohibited the use of laced basketballs in 1949.
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I don't like the new shape at all. The shape of the old NBA Ball is like a piece of American History and it's like all of a sudden they thought it would be a great idea to make it look more like a baseball.
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Leauge and Union footballs are synthetic, not leather, maybe you should get your facts straight before posting such a stupid statement!!!!!\n\n\nAnswer to your Question!!!!!\n\n\nROFLE to the statue of Wally! \n\nGO THE BLUES!!!!!!\n\nAND GOOD ON YA WALLY FOR TAKING IT SO WELL!!!\n\n\nQuick!!!!!!!
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i dont get it?!! what about the purple shoe laces???
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I can't find anything about it. The only thing I can find is a baseball game between Grambling & Jackson St on May 6th 2006, in Gary, but nothing about football. You might wantto try contacting the local paper up there, the Times. Their website is nwiTimes.com.
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Football (cad/us) uses hands. Soccer (Football in the rest of the world) is all feet.
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Tennis: Originating in England in the late 19th Century, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes.\n\nRugby:The legendary story/myth about the origin of Rugby football—whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis "took the ball in his arms [i.e. caught it] and ran" while playing Rugby School's already distinctive version of football (not to be confused with association football, which was codified much later) in 1823\n\nCricket:A basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among shepherds and farm workers in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a sport known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.\n\nIn 1598, a court case referred to a sport called Creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.\n\nVolleyball:On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten miles away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts only four years before. Mintonette (as volleyball was then known) was designed to be an indoor sport less rough than basketball for older members of the YMCA, while still requiring a bit of athletic effort.
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People have been kicking balls about for thousand of years, but soccer (short for asSOCiation football) was invented by public schoolboys in England in the 1860s. (NB You need to know that in England a 'public school' is actually a private, fee-charging school. Go figure!)
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American Football!\n\nWalter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football:\n\n    * one side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations\n    * the line of scrimmage\n    * 11 on a team instead of 15\n    * created the quarter-back and center positions\n    * forward pass\n    * standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring\n    * created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone\n    * tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888\n    * a touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912
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The cleats help prevent your shoes from slipping so you can turn better. This is espescailly important if the ground could be wet--soccer players and football players frequently play on wet fields.
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No, it has only been allowed since the 2001-2002 season, when they took the following determinations:\n1-Eliminated all existing illegal defense guidelines. \n2-Established a defensive 3-second rule, limiting the amount of time a defensive player may stand in the lane when he is not closely guarding someone. \n3-Reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds the amount of time a team will have to advance the ball past midcourt.\n4-Eliminated touch fouls by allowing brief contact initiated by a defensive player if it does not impede the progress of the player with the ball. \n\nHope this clarifies your doubts.
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because in the past dunking was a sign of direspect to the other team, but they reinstated it becasue its better entertainment. It was illegal in 60's-70's.
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Well I think with Basketball they would have to wear a sports jacket under the new Dress code. After all the players that aren't able to play have to. I would actually guess most of it is Dress codes by the league. The NFL though proably just kinda doesn't worry. They proably have a small thing like that the coaches are to look respectable but that's about it. Actually if you look at NFL coaches they usually look pretty reasonably dressy.
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A made up term for the plastic coating on the end of your shoe laces.  From the movie Cocktail.
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The footballs are used in different ways and they look different.
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It is most likely the court. If it is dirty/dusty, the dirt or dust sticks to the bottom of the shoe, making it loose traction. Try just talking a wet cloth and wiping the bottom of the shoe before the game. If that doesn't work, use that Sole Roller. It's almost like a lint roller but it's for shoes. I used to have one and it worked really well.
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Years ago, it was the line of scrimmage. But a couple of years ago the rules were changed. Now the ball goes over at the point where the ball was kicked.