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34-456: The organization sanctions competition in the following sports: Competitive bowling , bass fishing , and archery were sanctioned beginning in the 2011–12 school year. Competition in girls' slow-pitch softball was discontinued after the 2006–07 academic year. The KHSAA governs competitions for both public and private schools throughout the state, plus two federally administered schools— Fort Campbell and Fort Knox High Schools, located on

68-575: A handicap method for bowling. In 1905, Rubber Duckpin bowling was invented by Willam Wuerthele of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , catching on in Quebec, Canada . The ABC initially used bowling balls made of Lignum vitae hardwood from the Caribbean , which were eventually supplanted by the "Evertrue" rubber bowling ball, and the Brunswick "Mineralite" rubber ball by 1905. Columbia Industries , founded in 1960,

102-641: A man bowling with a triangular formation of ten pins, before that variant of the sport is believed to have appeared in the United States. An 1828 auction notice , also in Ipswich, explicitly mentions "ten-pin and skittle grounds". In 1819, New York writer Washington Irving made the first mention of ninepin bowling in American literature in his story " Rip Van Winkle ". Newspaper articles and advertisements at least as early as 1820 refer to "ten pin alleys", usually in

136-796: A public feast was held in Frankfurt, Germany , with a venison dinner followed by lawn bowling. English King Henry VIII was an avid bowler. In 1511, he banned bowling for the lower classes and imposed a levy for private lanes to limit them to the wealthy. Another English law , passed in 1541 (repealed in 1845), prohibited workers from bowling except at Christmas , and then only in their master's home and in his presence. In 1530, he acquired Whitehall Palace in central London as his new residence, having it extensively rebuilt complete with outdoor bowling lanes, indoor tennis court, jousting tiltyard, and cockfighting pit. Protestant Reformation founder Martin Luther set

170-715: A religious ritual to cleanse oneself from sin by rolling a rock into a club (kegel) representing the heathen, resulting in bowlers being called keglers. In 1299, the oldest-surviving known bowling green for target style bowling was built: Master's Close (now the Old Bowling Green of the Southampton Bowling Club) in Southampton, England , which is still in use. In 1325, laws were passed in Berlin and Cologne that limited bets on lawn bowling to five shillings. In 1366,

204-798: A standard reference for lawn bowling in Scotland. In 1875, the National Bowling Association (NBA) was founded by 27 local clubs in New York City to standardize rules for ten-pin bowling, setting the ball size and the distance between the foul line and the pins, but failing to agree on other rules; it was superseded in 1895 by the American Bowling Congress . In 1880, Justin White of Worcester, Massachusetts , invented Candlepin Bowling . In

238-455: Is also related to bowling. Bowling games can be distinguished into two general classes, pin bowling and target bowling. Five main variations are found in North America , with ten-pin being the most common but others being practiced in the eastern U.S. and in parts of Canada : Another form of bowling is usually played outdoors on a lawn. At outdoor bowling, the players throw a ball, which

272-475: Is an accepted version of this page Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term bowling usually refers to pin bowling, most commonly ten-pin bowling , though in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, bowling may also refer to target bowling, such as lawn bowls . Bowling

306-482: Is played by 120 million people in more than 90 countries, including 70 million people in the United States alone. In pin bowling, the goal is to knock over pins on a long playing surface known as a lane . Lanes have a wood or synthetic surface onto which protective lubricating oil is applied in different specified oil patterns that affect ball motion . A strike is achieved when all the pins are knocked down on

340-430: Is repeating a grade during high school for any reason is not allowed to compete during his or her second year at that grade level. Homeschoolers are prohibited from joining any KHSAA-sanctioned team or participating in any KHSAA-sanctioned tournaments. However, KHSAA schools are now required by law to allow KHSAA teams to compete against teams composed of homeschoolers during regular season play. Bowling This

374-481: Is sometimes eccentrically weighted, in an attempt to put it closest to a designated point or slot in the bowling arena. (Ex: Bocce Ball, an Italian lawn game) The earliest known forms of bowling date back to ancient Egypt , with wall drawings depicting bowling being found in a royal Egyptian tomb dated to 3200 BC and miniature pins and balls in an Egyptian child's grave about 3200 BC. Remnants of bowling balls were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to

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408-603: The Egyptian protodynastic period in 3200 BC. What is thought to be a child's game involving porphyry (stone) balls, a miniature trilithon , and nine breccia -veined alabaster vase-shaped figures—thought to resemble the more modern game of skittles —was found in Naqada , Egypt, in 1895. Balls were made using the husks of grains, covered in a material such as leather, and bound with string. Other balls made of porcelain have also been found, indicating that these were rolled along

442-677: The U.S. Army bases of the same names. Fort Campbell High is actually located on the Tennessee side of the base, which straddles the state border, but the U.S. Department of Defense organizes the schools it runs on the two bases under a single district . Not all secondary schools in Kentucky participate in the KHSAA. About two dozen small, private religious schools are sanctioned by the Kentucky Christian Athletic Association. KHSAA

476-531: The 1880s, Brunswick Corporation (founded 1845) of Chicago , Illinois, maker of billiard tables began making bowling balls, pins, and wooden lanes to sell to taverns installing bowling alleys. On 9 September 1895, the modern standardized rules for ten-pin bowling were established in New York City by the new American Bowling Congress (ABC) (later the United States Bowling Congress), who changed

510-541: The 2007 realignment, football also used this rule. In cross-country and track, the KHSAA rule is to divide the classes so that 40% of all schools that sponsor the sport are in Class A and 30% are in both Class AA and AAA. As is standard for high school sports in the U.S., students are limited to four consecutive years of eligibility (grades 9–12), whether or not they participate in any sports during one or more of those years. In football and soccer, students are not allowed to play on

544-480: The 2007–08 school year, the classification rules for the three sports which are divided are: The 2007–08 school year was the first for a six-class alignment in football; previously, a four-class system had been used. Schools were allowed to petition the KHSAA for reclassification before the football realignment became final. Eleven schools requested that the KHSAA place them in a higher class than their enrollment warranted; six of these requests were approved. No school

578-851: The ABC. In 2005 the ABC merged with the Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) et al. to become the United States Bowling Congress (USBC). In the early 1890s, Duckpin bowling was invented in Boston, Massachusetts , spreading to Baltimore, Maryland about 1899. In 1903, the English Bowling Association was founded by cricketer W. G. Grace . On 1 January 2008, it merged with the English Women's Bowling Association to become Bowls England. In 1903, D. Peifer of Chicago, Illinois, invented

612-629: The United States. In 1909, the first ten-pin bowling alley in Europe was installed in Sweden, but the game failed to catch on in the rest of Europe until after World War II. Meanwhile, ten-pin bowling caught on in Great Britain after hundreds of bowling lanes were installed on U.S. military bases during World War II. In 1913, the monthly Bowlers Journal was founded in Chicago, Illinois, continuing to publish to

646-692: The context of a side attraction to a main business or property as distinguished from dedicated "bowling alley" establishments as presently understood. By the late 1830s, New York's Knickerbocker Hotel housed a bowling alley with three lanes. In 1846, the oldest surviving bowling lanes in the United States were built as part of Roseland Cottage , the summer estate of Henry Chandler Bowen (1831–1896) in Woodstock, Connecticut . The lanes, now part of Historic New England's Roseland Cottage House Museum contain Gothic Revival architectural elements in keeping with

680-666: The first official mention of bowling in England was made, when King Edward III banned it as a distraction to archery practice. In the 15th–17th centuries, lawn bowling spread from Germany into Austria, Switzerland, and the Low Countries, with playing surfaces made of cinders or baked clay. In 1455, lawn bowling lanes in London were first roofed-over, turning bowling into an all-weather game. In Germany, they were called kegelbahns and were often attached to taverns and guest houses. In 1463,

714-537: The first roll, and a spare is achieved if all the pins are knocked over on a second roll. Common types of pin bowling include ten-pin , candlepin , duckpin , nine-pin , and five-pin . The historical game skittles is the forerunner of modern pin bowling. In target bowling, the aim is usually to get the ball as close to a mark as possible. The surface in target bowling may be grass, gravel, or synthetic. Lawn bowls , bocce , carpet bowls , pétanque , and boules may have both indoor and outdoor varieties. Curling

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748-743: The ground rather than thrown due to their size and weight. Some of these resemble the modern-day jack used in target bowl games. Bowling games of different forms are also noted by Herodotus as an invention of the Lydians in Asia Minor . About 2,000 years ago, in the Roman Empire , a similar game evolved between Roman legionaries entailing the tossing of stone objects as close as possible to other stone objects, which eventually evolved into Italian bocce , or outdoor bowling. Around AD 400, bowling began in Germany as

782-619: The individual country level. In September 1907, the Victorian Ladies' Bowling Association was founded in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , becoming the world's first women's lawn bowling association. In 1908, the now-oldest surviving bowling alley for the tenpin sport was opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the basement of the Holler House tavern, containing the oldest sanctioned lanes in

816-920: The number of pins (which varied from 3 to 17) at nine. He had a bowling lane built next to his home for his children, sometimes rolling a ball himself. On 19 July 1588, English Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Drake allegedly was playing bowls at Plymouth Hoe when the arrival of the Spanish Armada was announced; he replied, "We have time enough to finish the game and beat the Spaniards too." In 1609, Dutch East India Company explorer Henry Hudson discovered Hudson Bay , bringing Dutch colonization to New Amsterdam (later New York); Hudson's men brought some form of lawn bowling with them. In 1617, English King James I published Declaration of Sports , banning bowling on Sundays but permitting dancing and archery for those first attending an Anglican service, outraging Puritans; it

850-605: The present day. In late 1916, the Women's International Bowling Congress (originally the Woman's National Bowling Association) was founded in Saint Louis, Missouri , merging with the United States Bowling Congress in 2005. In 1920–1933 Prohibition in the U.S. caused bowling alleys to disassociate from saloons, turning bowling into a family game and encouraging women bowlers. Homeschool Too Many Requests If you report this error to

884-456: The scoring system from a maximum 200 points for 20 balls to a maximum 300 points for 12 balls, and set the maximum ball weight at 16 lb (7.3 kg), and pin distance at 12 in (30 cm). The first ABC champion (1906–1921) was Jimmy Smith (1885–1948). In 1927 Mrs. Floretta "Doty" McCutcheon (1888–1967) defeated Smith in an exhibition match, founding a school that taught 500,000 women how to bowl. In 1993 women were allowed to join

918-501: The situation in most states, the default in Kentucky is to conduct a single state championship for all schools, with no classification of schools by enrollment. Most notably, Kentucky does not divide schools into classes in basketball, with Delaware being the only other remaining state with a single state basketball championship for each sex. Of the 13 sports in which the KHSAA sanctions state championships, only three are organized in multiple classes—cross-country, football, and track. As of

952-663: The style of the entire estate. In 1848, the Revolutions of 1848 resulted in accelerated German immigration to the U.S., reaching 5 million by 1900, bringing their love of beer and bowling with them; by the late 19th century they made New York City a center of bowling. In 1848, the Scottish Bowling Association for lawn bowling was founded in Scotland by 200 clubs; it was dissolved then refounded in 1892. In 1864, Glasgow cotton merchant William Wallace Mitchell (1803–1884) published Manual of Bowls Playing , which became

986-534: The third grade. The eligibility "clock" for such students does not start until they enter ninth grade. Like all U.S. jurisdictions, Kentucky has an upper age limit for high school athletic participation. The KHSAA rule is that students must be under age 19 as of the July 31 preceding the current academic year. This particular rule is actually codified in Kentucky Revised Statutes § 156.270(2)(e). A student who

1020-574: The varsity until they are actually enrolled in the ninth grade, and wrestlers cannot compete until they have entered the seventh grade. In other sports, there is no grade restriction; for example, former NBA player O. J. Mayo first played on a high school varsity team as a seventh-grader at Rose Hill Christian School in Ashland , and current PGA Tour golfer JB Holmes first played on the golf team of Taylor County High School in Campbellsville while in

1054-428: Was allowed to play in a lower class, although the KHSAA accepted one school's request to adjust its enrollment downward. As a result of these requests, the final number of schools in each classification was: In all three sports, classification is based on a four-year average enrollment in grades 9 through 12. Single-sex schools are deemed to have double their actual average enrollment for cross-country and track; prior to

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1088-520: Was created by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletes in Kentucky. Whether public, private, or federally administered, all member schools compete for state championships on an equal basis. Unlike some other states' school athletic governing bodies, the KHSAA governs only athletics; it does not govern band, academic competitions or other extracurricular activities. These activities are governed by separate bodies. Unlike

1122-571: Was reissued in 1633 by his successor Charles I , then ordered publicly burned in 1643 by the Puritan Parliament. In 1670, Dutchmen liked to bowl at the Old King's Arms Tavern near modern-day 2nd and Broadway in New York City. In 1733, Bowling Green in New York City was built on the site of a Dutch cattle market and parade ground, becoming the city's oldest public park to survive to modern times. A circa 1810 painting of Ipswich , England shows

1156-572: Was the first manufacturer to successfully use polyester resin ("plastic") in bowling balls. In 1980, urethane-shell bowling balls were introduced by Ebonite. Rules for target bowls evolved separately in each of the other countries that adopted the predominantly British game. In 1905, the International Bowling Board was formed; its constitution adopted the laws of the Scottish Bowling Association, with variations allowed at

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