Squash is a popular indoor racket-and-ball court game played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.
Squash was invented in England's Harrow School out of the older game rackets around 1830. Squash is played on a smaller court than rackets and with a softer ball.
Rackets required a somewhat outsize court and as only one existed at Harrow school it proved inadequate for all the boys anxious to play. The game originally called squash rackets was created out that, the idea being that though still very similar to rackets, it needed much less room.
The game of squash has grown rapidly since the 1920s, when the popularity of rackets declined because of the cost of building the larger courts.
Squash was officially made a sport in 1864 when actual courts were constructed at a school in London.
The first squash courts in North America appeared at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire in 1884. The four squash courts, built outside a building that contained two racquets courts, were open to the air. Any pupil who annually paid one dollar could use them.
In 1904 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the earliest national association of squash in the world was formed as the United States Squash rackets Association, (USSRA), now known as U.S. Squash.
The RMS Titanic had a squash court in first class. The 1st-Class Squash Court was situated on G-Deck and the Spectators Viewing Gallery was on the deck above on F-Deck. To use the Court cost 50 cents in 1912.
Squash really took off in the aftermath of the Second World War. Wherever more courts were built and more courts were accessible, it blossomed
Jahangir Khan dominated the sport of squash for 25 years. In one five year period between 1981 to 1986, Jahangir Khan played 555 consecutive squash matches, maintaining an unbeaten run the entire time. this is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records. During this winning streak, he won the International Squash Players Association Championship, without losing a single point.
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Squash was invented in England's Harrow School out of the older game rackets around 1830. Squash is played on a smaller court than rackets and with a softer ball.
Rackets required a somewhat outsize court and as only one existed at Harrow school it proved inadequate for all the boys anxious to play. The game originally called squash rackets was created out that, the idea being that though still very similar to rackets, it needed much less room.
The game of squash has grown rapidly since the 1920s, when the popularity of rackets declined because of the cost of building the larger courts.
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Squash was officially made a sport in 1864 when actual courts were constructed at a school in London.
The first squash courts in North America appeared at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire in 1884. The four squash courts, built outside a building that contained two racquets courts, were open to the air. Any pupil who annually paid one dollar could use them.
In 1904 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the earliest national association of squash in the world was formed as the United States Squash rackets Association, (USSRA), now known as U.S. Squash.
The RMS Titanic had a squash court in first class. The 1st-Class Squash Court was situated on G-Deck and the Spectators Viewing Gallery was on the deck above on F-Deck. To use the Court cost 50 cents in 1912.
Squash really took off in the aftermath of the Second World War. Wherever more courts were built and more courts were accessible, it blossomed
Jahangir Khan dominated the sport of squash for 25 years. In one five year period between 1981 to 1986, Jahangir Khan played 555 consecutive squash matches, maintaining an unbeaten run the entire time. this is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records. During this winning streak, he won the International Squash Players Association Championship, without losing a single point.
According to the World Squash Federation, as of June 2009, there were 49908 squash courts in the world, with 188 countries and territories having at least one court. England had the greatest number at 8,500.
The racket (or Racquet) is similar to a tennis racket, but it's lighter and smaller.
The game of squash gets its name from the sound that the synthetic rubber "squashy" ball makes when it strikes a wall.
A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet.
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