"Plaything of the Gods"
A new sport called pushball has gained popularity in American colleges, leading to predictions of its lasting presence in the sports landscape. The game has also made its way to Australia, although the British have shown less enthusiasm for it. British entrepreneur E. V. Hanegan promoted the game, claiming it was fit for giants and likening it to a pastime of the gods.
- ▪Pushball is played on a football pitch and has become popular in American colleges.
- ▪Spalding predicted that pushball would have a permanent place among American sports.
- ▪E. V. Hanegan created his own version of pushball and claimed it was a game for giants.
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This new sport, often conveniently played on a football pitch, met American colleges’ unquenchable hunger for more forms of competitive amusements; so popular was it that Spalding declared that “there is every indication that the game will occupy a permanent place among the sports of America”. It had even crossed the Atlantic and eventually found its way to Australia. The British, however, proved less committed to the struggle of man against man, and by 1904 were playing pushball on horseback and even in cars. British entrepreneur E. V. Hanegan did much to propagate the mythic proportions of this new game and created his own version of a pushball, which required the hides of nine horses.“Pushball is a game for giants”, he proclaimed.
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