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	American handball - Definition, explanation
		American (or court) handball is an American form of fives played against one or more walls has origins in pre-Hispanic central America (about 1500 BC) and Scotland/Ireland circa 1500 AD.
		American handball is played on a court forty feet long by twenty feet wide with either a single (front) wall, three walls, or in a fully enclosed four-wall.
		Chinese handball is a street game form of American handball played against one wall using a spaldeen.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/am/american_handball.php (489 words)

	American handball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American handball is played on a court 12.2 meters long by 6.1 meters wide (40 feet long by 20 feet wide) with either a single (front) wall, three walls, or in a fully enclosed four-wall court (the most common).
		While American handball has lost popularity due to both racquetball's rise (as players migrated) and fall (as clubs lost courts), it remains an excellent way to keep in shape when outdoor games cannot be easily played because of darkness or inclement weather.
		Prison Handball is a simpified version of american handball popular in north american prisons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_handball (2452 words)

	Frisian handball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frisian handball (Dutch: kaatsen, Frisian: Keatsen) is a traditional Frisian sport, related to American handball and fives, that is most commonly practiced by people from the northern province of Fryslân/Friesland.
		The major Frisian handball tournament, called the P.C. (short for Permanent Comity), is the oldest regulated sports tournament in the world.
		Frisian handball is played on a square lawn of 61 m by 32 m by two teams of 3 players.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frisian_handball (387 words)

	Handball (Site not responding. Last check: )
		American (or Court) handball played against one or more walls has origins in pre-Hispanic central America (about 1500 BC) and Scotland/Ireland ca 1500 AD.
		It is similar to (and in fact preceded) Racquetball and Squash; Jai alai is also thought to have evolved from handball.
		European Team (or Field) handball is similar to Association football (soccer) and may have originated in either Germany, or earlier in Greece.
	www.factspider.com /ha/handball.html (466 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - Team Handball goes for only shot at Athens
		When the U.S. men's and women's handball teams finally scrimmaged Uruguay, the arena was humid and empty, the floor was slick with sweat, and explosions from a nearby fireworks show thundered off the barren walls.
		The 2,700-seat handball pavilion was ready for play, although during scrimmages Wednesday night, a handful of workers were making small adjustments to the facility.
		The American women were supposed to scrimmage Uruguay on Tuesday night, but the lights went out in the Parque de Este athletic complex, where several venues are located, leaving both teams in the dark.
	espn.go.com /oly/panam2003/s/2003/0801/1588668.html (686 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Chinese handball (also known as Ace-King-Queen, King(s), and Slugs), is a form of American handball popular on the streets of New York City and Bridgewater, NJ during the 1960s and '70s, and is still played today.
		Similar to one-wall handball with an opposite twist ("Chinese"), instead of hitting a ball against the wall to opposing players after the first floor bounce as in a normal handball scenario, would hit the ball (normally a spaldeen or kick pinkie) to the ground first toward the direction of the wall.
		A version of Chinese handball is still very popular in Australian schools, where it is known simply as "handball".
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Chinese_handball (920 words)

	VL of Sport - Handball
		How to teach Handball to a beginner an article geared to the academic quarter of ten weeks of instruction with two class periods per week.
		Handball Information including a brief history of the sport going back to 2000 BC Detailed History of Handball from ancient history to the start of the modern game in the early 1900's
		The United States Handball Association develop team handball through schools, recreational leagues and colleges; provide multiple levels of competition for all ages, skill levels, and interests; as well as developing the Men's and Women's teams for the Pan American Games, World Championships, and the Olympic Games.
	sportsvl.com /ball/handball.htm (754 words)

	History
		In 1919, the two men built a handball court in Melton’s barn, and it was this two-man handball club that so intrigued the eastern sportswriters years later when Melton competed in the national championships.
		They also began to establish handball in their own towns, Art Trenery of Billings, James Casteel of Lewistown, and Clyde Churchill of Havre were some of the early players who widened the circle a bit.
		The Montana association adopted the handball rules of the AAU in 1928; the kind of handballs used in national play were ordered for state meets; and the now-standard four-wall court of 40 feet by 20 feet by 20 feet became the norm in Montana.
	www.montanahandball.com /Miscellaneous/History.htm (3430 words)

	Team Handball History & Team Handball Rules - Johann & Sandra's Team Handball
		Team Handball is a sport which is kind of like water polo on a basketball court.
		The International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) was established in 1928; handball was a demonstration sport at the Olympics that year and again in 1932.
		When handball was introduced to the United States, about 1930, the name was already being used for the court game that was very popular in YMCAs across the country,.so the new import was called "field handball," eventually shortened to "fieldball," and it was at first played primarily by girls and women.
	www.johann-sandra.com /handball.htm (1057 words)

	Handball Bibliographies
		The development of achievement standards in handball and touch football for use in the Department of physical training for men at the University of Texas.
		Relationship of hand size and grip strength to accuracy of team handball penalty throws for beginning boys, ages thriteen, fourteen and fifteen years.
		Handball and how to play it : its great merit as a physical exercise; qualifications necessary for a player; a regulation court and something about its construction; the rules and their definitions
	www.washjeff.edu /german/handball/handpubtitle.htm (649 words)

	Sports Rules - Court Handball
		Objective: (Court) Handball is a ball game played by two players, or two pairs, on a walled court.
		It is worth noting that not all handball courts have the receiving line marked.
		There must be at least a 15 centimetre (6 inch) line marked on the side walls to signify where the line would be.
	sportsrules.50g.com /handballcourt.htm (909 words)

	USA Team Handball (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USA Team Handball announces the team to represent USA at the 2004 Men's Pan American Championships, Santiago, Chile this July.
		In team handball USA competed strong to earn a bronze medal, the first international medal in 12 years.
		A long-term goal of USA Team Handball is to build a strong base of experienced, new-generation players for the program.
	www.usateamhandball.org /usath/news/news_06302004.htm (368 words)

	Gothamist: Please Explain: Handball
		It's like a cross between soccer and basketball, in the way that there are goals with a goalkeeper instead of baskets, but players use their hands, not feet.
		Four wall handball (not be be confused with the Olympic sport called Team Handball) was around for years before racquetball was invented.
		So handball isn't a game played on racquetball courts, racquetball is a game played no handball courts.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2006/01/19/please_explain_2.php (1604 words)

	Athletes Get Rated - Allsportrating.com - Handball - FREE Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Team handball has origins reaching as far back as the antiquity: urania in ancient Greece, harpaston in ancient Rome, fangballspiel in medieval Germany, etc. There are also records of handball-like games in medieval France, and among the Inuit on Greenland, in the Middle Ages.
		The team handball game as we know it today was formed by the end of the 19th century in northern Europe, primarily Denmark, Germany and Sweden.
		The first set of team handball rules was published on October 29, 1917 by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz and Erich Konigh from Germany.
	allsportrating.com /sport.php?id=6 (398 words)

	Hoganstand.com - Handball
		Handball star Paul Brady says his Cavan SFC success with Mullahoran is comparable to anything else he has achieved in sport.
		Members of the St. Coman’s handball club in Roscommon who took part in the recent World Championships in Canada were well kitted out thanks to the generous support of the Irish Asphalt plant in Aughnacliffe, Co. Longford.
		Brigid’s and Dublin handballer Eoin Kennedy has received a major boost with the announcement that Vogue Bathrooms, the market leader in designer bathroom products, is to sponsor him for the remainder of the 2006 championship season in addition to the upcoming 2007 season.
	www.hoganstand.com /handball (826 words)

	hurdle-o-gram 09102002
		Handballers get to socialize off the court with each other and might be able to get a better understanding of what this is all about.
		We are recreational handball players, so the association has to offer more than just competition.
		Each meeting we will be showing a marquee game from around the world. The first half-hour of each meeting will be devoted to current events and topics. At approximately 8pm, the “Game of the Month” will begin. This month’s marquee match is the 2000 Olympic final featuring Sweden v.
	www.condorhandball.com /hurdleograms/09102002.html (364 words)

	10H HANDBALL
		A sports medicine analysis of the incidence of injuries and accident epidemiology of indoor handball sports in senior players in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1981].
		Sattler, T.P. The development of an instrument to measure handball ability of beginning level players in a physical education class.
		Performances by college students in handball being taught by three different teaching methods.
	nutrition.ucdavis.edu /Olympics/Sports/hand.htm (358 words)

	Dan Washburn's Sporting Life
		Cappelmann's team is training for the 2001 Men's Junior Pan American Championship, which runs April 4-8 at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park.
		The county is home to Atlanta Team Handball and the nation's brightest young talent — most of whom had never even heard of the sport before middle school.
		Team handball was developed in Europe in the 1920s and made its Olympic debut in 1936.
	www.danwashburn.com /handball.html (719 words)

	Sports Features Communications - Press Point (Site not responding. Last check: )
		2003 USA Team Handball Men’s Athlete of the Year, Gary Hines, continues to shine as he was selected to the 2004 NORCECA Championships All Tournament Team and helped the team win Silver with his outstanding scoring abilities.
		Michael D. Cavanaugh, USA Team Handball Executive Director served as the technical delegate for the Competition committee of the Pan American Team Handball Federation, “I was very pleased with the blend of youth and veterans and the overall team chemistry.
		USA Team Handball is the National Governing Body for the Olympic sport of team handball in the United States.
	www.sportsfeatures.com /PressPoint/show.php?id=8681 (378 words)

	contact
		Carolina Team Handball (CTHC) is the University club and is made up of students attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		Carolina Team Handball has won the Bronze Medal (1998, 2000, 2003) and the Silver Medal (1999 and 2001) and the Gold Medal (2004, 2005, 2006) at the USA TH Collegiate National Championships.
		Sampson and Williams were named to the 2003 USA Pan American Games Team and Williams secured the starting spot at right wing.
	www.unc.edu /cthc/CTHC-HISTORY.htm (654 words)

	HANDBALL INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HANDBALL INFORMATION exists for the only purpose of informing our members on all international, nationals and provincial Team Handball activities.
		Ralph Wheeler from Newfoundland, is expected to teach handball classes to physical education students; he also plans one-day team handball classes to school teachers.
		In order to promote team handball in all provinces, over 100 handball balls were given to provincial handball federations from British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
	www.handball.ca /news/Hinfo01/Hinfo-0101e.html (664 words)

	Emory's handball team makes No. 1 first time out
		Team handball has not become an official NCAA sport, but this school year marked the debut of its sanctioned college league.
		The U.S. Team Handball Association successfully petitioned the USOC for a $500,000 grant to create the Southeast Team Handball Conference (SETHC), the first of its kind in the country.
		In fact, team handball is something closer to lacrosse, except the bare hands are used to carry/throw a ball that is roughly the size of a large cantaloupe.
	www.emory.edu /EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1998/January/erjanuary.26/1_26_98Handball.html (704 words)

	Cortland Sport Management
		Hassan Moustafa of Egypt, the president of International Handball Federation (IHF) Federation, and Michael Cavanaugh, executive director of USA Team Handball, the national governing body for the Olympic sport of team handball, spoke at a press conference coordinated by SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum at the SUNY Cortland Stadium Complex.
		Moustafa views the college as the ideal spot to cultivate team handball in the U.S. Cavanaugh said that SUNY Cortland was chosen over several other cities and regions as the U.S. Women’s National Team’s home for a number of reasons.
		Team handball is a fast-paced sport pitting seven players against seven players on a surface area slightly larger than a basketball court.
	www.cortland.edu /spmg/newsteamhandball2004.htm (1160 words)

	Canada - Women's World Handball Championship 2003 - Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On September 24th, Uruguay has officially informed the Pan American Team Handball Federation of the non-participation of their senior national women team to the Championship in Croatia.
		On October 1st, the Pan American Team Handball Federation officially informed the International Handball Federation of the participation of Canada in replacement of Uruguay.
		Since then, the Pan American Team Handball Federation and the CTHF are strongly fighting the IHF decision, without success yet; however we have the entire support of many team handball national sport organizations.
	www.handball.ca /Worldchampionship2003/wwhc2003/indexe.htm (481 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Gaelic handball, almost identical to American handball, a sport similar to squash where players hit the ball with a gloved hand instead of a racquet
		Reverse handball, a radical but growing variation of Australian handball involving the use of external objects.
		Handball (Australian rules football), a legal method of disposing of the ball and an alternative pass to a kick
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Handball_(disambiguation) (202 words)

	Fives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The game has also been known as hand-tennis and historically was often played between the buttresses of church buildings in England.
		There are links between Fives and the Irish and North American handball games and indeed, in recent years, British clubs have begun to establish ties with clubs in those countries.
		Fives is not the same as Long Fives, which is played in a real tennis court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fives (677 words)

	85directory - Handball (Directory/Media & Entertainment/Sports/Handball) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alaska State Handball Association - The goal is to encourage and support the growth and development for handball throughout the Alaskan community, and to introduce handball to the youngest generation...
		Handball player leaps towards the goal prior to throwing the ball, while the goalkeeper extends himself trying to stop it.
		Handball Ireland website is dedictaed to all those who play and follow handball - the Perfect Game.
	www.85directory.com /Media.Entertainment/Sports/Handball (457 words)

	Hoganstand.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cavan handball duo of Paul Brady (Mullahoran) and Michael Finnegan from the Kingscourt club reclaimed their All-Ireland senior doubles title over last year’s champions, Eoin Kennedy and Egin Jensen in an exciting final played in Moycullen, Co. Galway on Saturday last – 8th of April.
		Paul Brady also confirmed his status as Ireland’s foremost handballer with a convincing victory over Eoin Kennedy of Dublin in the All-Ireland 40 x 20 senior singles final played in Limerick on Sunday, April 1st last.
		The talented Mullahoran player was the pre-match favourite and lived up to his billing with a tremendous exhibition of attacking handball to win the title in straight games 21-19, 21-8.
	hoganstand.com /handball/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=59165 (276 words)

	Overview - American Towers Condominiums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		American Towers is a residential condominium community located in the heart of beautiful downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
		We are centrally located and within easy walking distance of shopping malls, restaurants, theaters, cinemas, performing arts centers, light rail transit, and much more.
		Our community features twin high-rise towers, with 357 condominiums and numerous amenities including swimming pool, indoor and outdoor spas, saunas, exercise facilities and handball courts.
	www.americantowers.org /index.html (79 words)

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