Saturday 26 September 2015

Tennis

Fun Facts:
1)The fastest recorded tennis serve went 263 km per hour (Served by Samuel Growth in 2012)  
2)About 42.000 tennis balls are used during the Wimbledon Championship
3)Tennis player Roger Federer was the number one tennis player in the world for a record 237 straight weeks.
4)The longest tennis match in history was 11 hours and five minutes
6)Tennis players need to be fast to reach all parts of the court
5)Tennis is played on variety of surfaces, including clay, concrete, and grass
7) Shortest match was only 23 minutes
8) Oldest Tennis player is Ivo Karlovic at the age of 36
9) Tennis balls were originally white, the first yellow tennis ball was used in 1986
10) Wimbledon is the only major tournament that is still played on grass

How To Play
You throw the ball into the air and hit it with the racket. The maximum times the ball can bounce on the ground is once.
You have to make the ball bounce at least more than twice to get a point.


Monday 7 September 2015

Football

What is Football
Football, a full contact contest where two teams try to pass to the other side, carrying a football and force the ball toward their opponents end zone. Football is one of the most aggressive sports in the world. In football each team is divided into three units offense, defense and special teams.


How To Play/Rules
You carry a football to the opposition’s end zone and you get a point. Penalties are given when rules are broken. Players are not allowed to push an opponent on the back, hold a player other than the ball carrier, or illegally obstruct a player.

Football field
A football field is 100 yards long (110m)with an end zone at each end.


History
Back then players were paid only $10 to play in a game in 1895. When Super Bowl 1 was on the lowest ticket price was only $6. The first football game played was November 6th 1869.

Clothing

-Helmet
-Shoulder Pads
-Thigh Pads
-Knee Pads
-Cleats
-Jersey


Fun Facts About Football
Each year the NFL uses 12,046 footballs. The highest loss ever in a college football game is 222-0 georgia tech vs cumberland. In each NFL game the home team has to provide 24 footballs. Each NFL team ends in the letter “S”. Eli and Peyton Manning are the only set of brothers playing football  to both play quarterback and play against each other in a super bowl game


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