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This sport has been around since the beginning of the Olympics in Ancient Greece and was invented by the Greeks. -
England is credited for inventing the modernized version of soccer. Along with the founding of the Football Association. -
The first match was played on November 6th, 1869. It was played against two colleges, Rutgers and Princeton. -
Tennis was invented in Birmingham, England which was originally called lawn tennis. -
Softball's first game actually came about from a football game, not a baseball game. -
Invented by a Springfield College instructor/graduate student, James Naismith. -
William G. Morgan invented the sport in Holyoke, Massachusetts. -
Beach volleyball began in Hawaii around 1915 at the Outrigger Canoe Club. Most people give credit to Santa Monica for the creation of its current competition outline. -
Ten football teams from four states came together in Canton, Ohio. The league was first known as the American Professional Football Association. -
Formed in the US by two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded in 1937) and Basketball Association of America (founded in 1946). -
Before being called MLS, this league was called North American Soccer League which existed from 1968-1984. The league also started off with ten teams and quickly gained more. -
The first game was played by the New York Liberty against the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles. -
The WPSL was founded in 1997 and folded in 2001. Then NPF was created in 2004, but disbanded in 2021 after two cancelled seasons because of COVID-19. Then the Women's Professional Fastpitch was created just last year.