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500
500-600 BC
China played a game called "Tsu Chu" that was played with a leather animal skin ball stuffed with feathers. This game could have been soccer because it was played with no hands just like modern soccer. http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/history.htm -
Mar 1, 700
Pre-Medieval Time
Villages would kick skulls into other towns and the other town would have to kick it back. http://soccerballworld.com/History.htm -
Mar 1, 1000
1000 BC
The Japanese played a game like hackysack but played it with a larger ball that was stuffed with saw dust. http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/history.htm -
Mar 1, 1300
600-1600 AD
In Central American during this time a rubber ball was made where the objest of the gamae was to get the ball through a hoop. http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/history.htm -
Mar 1, 1400
700 AD
Britain used a head of the Danish prince after defeating them at war. http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/history.htm -
1600
In Canada and Alaska they played a game called aqsaqtuk on ice with a ball stuffed with grass, hair, and moss. http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/history.htm -
First Inflatable Rubber Ball to be Manufactured
H.J. Lindon created one of the first inflatable rubber balls when he inflated blatters with air. These balls were oval in shape but hard and easy to kick http://soccerballworld.com/History.htm -
Two Companies
Two companies were the first to mass produce the soccer ball. High quallity was made of the rump or butt of the cow while lower quaity was made of the caw's shoulder. http://soccerballworld.com/History.htm -
New Technique
"Most balls had a tanned leather cover with eighteen sections stitched together arranged in six panels of three strips each. Each section was stitched together by hand with five-ply hemp and a small lace-up slit was on one side." This caused the ball to be heavy and many head injuries during a game. http://soccerballworld.com/History.htm -
White Ball
The ball's leather was white washed so the spectators of the game could see it better. http://soccerballworld.com/History.htm -
World Cup Soccer Balls
Adidas created the image of the common soccer ball. "That ball is what probably lots of people think of when someone says “think of an image of a soccer ball.”" Its the black and white patterned with pentagons and hexagons. http://slyoyster.com/cheap-thrills/2010/evolution-of-the-world-cup-soccer-ball/
