The History Of Bowling

Bowling has been around for a long time, i mean a LONG time. there has been discoveries of ancient primitave bowling balls and pins in ancient eqyptian tombs! Back in the 1300s bowling became very popular in germany. Back then there wasnt any lanes to bowl on a it was just a yard game at the time. But around 1366 King Edward lll banned the game from being played because it took away time for his soldiers to practice their archery skills. Now its time to jump ahead about 500 years. In about 1812 bowling was becoming very popular in Europe and was brought to the U.S. by about 1841. It became very popular in Conneticut and New York. In Conneticut it attracted people thayt like to gamble and bet their money on who would win. The state did not like the sport being a gambling sport, so the state made a law that there was to be now ninepin bowling in the state of Conneticut. The gamblers and the owneres of the bowling centers simply got around this law by adding and extra pin to the set of pins thus creating ten pin bowling like there is today.