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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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netball
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Game much played in girls' schools in Britain, similar to the American basketball from which it developed. Basketball was invented in 1891 to exercise a group of male students at a YMCA college in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1895 an American, visiting a physical training college for girls in Hampstead, taught them a version which they played with wastepaper baskets hung at each end of the hall. The rules of basketball were still imprecise, and netball is merely the game established in a set of rules drawn up on this side of the Atlantic in 1901. It was the accident of its first English home which made it above all a game for girls.
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