When was the first match invented?
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The first match was invented in 1805 by K. Chancel, assistant to Professor L. J. Thénard of Paris. The head of the match consisted of a mixture of potassium chlorate, sulfur, sugar, and rubber. They were ignited by dipping the tip of the match in a small asbestos bottle filled with sulfuric acid. This kind of match was quite expensive and its usage was dangerous, so Chancel's matches never gained much popularity.\n\nThe first friction match was invented in 1827 by English chemist John Walker.
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a match should do the trick
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Modern football started in the UK.\nFirst time humans used a game based n shooting a ball with their feet was around 3000 b.c. in ancient egypt.Later the babylonians played a similar game, then much later a game closer to basket ball called "ring ball" appeared in the villages of the Maya civilization in central america. Almost all civlizations have used a spherical object in one sport or the other.
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England played in the first ever international football match, against Scotland at Hamilton Crescent in Partick, Glasgow, Scotland on November 30, 1872. The result was 0-0; England had to wait until the following year to record their first win, 4-2, over Scotland at the Kennington Oval.
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Both American Football and Soccer (called Football by the rest of the world) have their origins in the game of Rugby, invented in 1823 at the Rugby Boys' School in England.  \n\nA "football-type" game was played on the first Monday of every school year on the Boston Common by Harvard University Students and caught on in popularity around 1860 (about the time of the Civil War).  In 1865, Princeton and Rutgers along with other colleges established standard rules for the game, and that same year, the football itself was patented.\n\nIn the 1890's the game was so brutal that nearly 200 players had been injured badly.  In 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt called upon Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to help save the sport from demise.  These schools met, agreed upon rules for reform, and invited other schools to come and meet about these reforms.  Sixty schools showed up and formed what would eventually be come to known as the NCAA.
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(m)\n\nSoftball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. A group of about twenty young men had gathered in the gymnasium of the Farragut Boat Club in order to hear the outcome of the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale's victory was announced and bets were paid off, a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone, who hit it with a pole.\n\n George Hancock, usually considered the inventor of softball, shouted, "Let's play ball!" He tied the boxing glove so that it resembled a ball, chalked out a diamond on the floor (smaller dimensions than those of a baseball field in order to fit the gym) and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat. What proceeded was an odd, smaller version of baseball. That game is now, 111 years later, known as the first softball game. Softball may have seen its death on the day of its birth if Hancock had not been so fascinated by it. In one week, he created an oversized ball and an undersized rubber-tipped bat and went back to the gym to paint permanent white foul lines on the floor. After he wrote new rules and named the sport indoor baseball, a more organized, yet still new, game was played. Its popularity was immediate.
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The game was probably invented in late medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, in February, 1541. Two paintings (both dated 1565 [1]) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling (Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf).\n\nThe word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, Scotland, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson. The game was (and still is, in Scotland) also known as "the roaring game" because of the sound the stones make while travelling over the pebble (droplets of water applied to the playing surface). The word derives from the Scots language verb curr [2] which describes a low rumble (a cognate of the English language verb purr). The word does not take its name from the motion of the stones, which due to their deviation from a straight-line trajectory are said to curl.
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The first version of softball was invented in Chicago, Illinois in 1887 by George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, as a winter version of baseball. It was intended to be a way for baseball players to keep in practice during the winter.\n\nYale and Harvard alumni had gathered at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago to hear the score of the annual football game. When the score was announced and bets were paid, one person threw a boxing glove at another. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it.Hancock called "Play ball!" and the game began. Hancock took a boxing glove and tied it into a ball. A broom handle was used as a bat. The ball, being soft, was fielded barehanded rather than with gloves like those which had been introduced to baseball in 1882. Hancock developed a ball and an undersized bat in the next week. The Farragut Club soon set rules for the game, which spread quickly to outsiders.\n\nIn 1895 Lewis Rober, Sr. of Minneapolis organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters; this game was known as kitten ball (after the first team to play it), pumpkin ball, or diamond ball. Rober's version of the game used a twelve-inch (305 mm) ball rather than the sixteen-inch (406 mm) ball used by the Farragut club, and eventually the Minneapolis ball prevailed, although the dimensions of the Minneapolis diamond were passed over in favour of the dimensions of the Chicago one. Rober may not have been familiar with the Farragut Club rules. The first softball league outside the United States was organized in Toronto in 1897.\n\nThe name softball dates from 1926 (in addition to indoor baseball, kitten ball, and diamond ball, names for the game included mush ball, and pumpkin ball). Standard rules were agreed on only after the formation of the Amateur Softball Association in 1933.\n\nSixteen-inch (406 mm) softball, also sometimes referred to as "mush ball" or "Super-slow pitch" is a direct descendant of Hancock's original game. Defensive players are not allowed to wear fielding gloves; however, a sixteen inch softball is actually soft, and can be fielded safely with bare hands. Sixteen inch softball is played extensively in Chicago, Illinois.\n\nIn the 1940s, fast pitching started to dominate the game. Slow pitch was invented to give batters a better chance to hit the ball.\n\nAfter World War II, Canadian soldiers introduced softball to The Netherlands.\n\nIn 1991, Women's fast-pitch was selected to debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics.\n\nIn 2002, sixteen-inch slow pitch was written out of the ISF official rules, though still played extensively in the United States under Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) rules.\n\nThe 117th meeting of the International Olympic Committee, held in Singapore in July 2005, voted to drop Softball and Baseball as Olympic sports for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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The first championship was being held in 1930. \nThis years championship will start on June 9 and end on July 9.
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Don't know who scored the goal.  But the first FIFA match was May 1, 1904.  The match was held in Brussels, Belgium.  The game was between Belgium and France.
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It was an official sport in 1924. Was demoted to a demonstration sport until 1998, when it made it's official debut.
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the question to ask is, when was nine pin bowling created/inveted/first played, \n\nsometime in ancient egypt was when the game originated, or something similar to it.
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The ball is: \nspherical; \nmade of leather or other suitable material; \nof a circumference of not more than 70 cm (28 ins) and not less\nthan 68 cm (27 ins); \nnot more than 450 g (16 oz) in weight and not less than 410 g\n(14 oz) at the start of the match; \nof a pressure equal to 0.6 – 1.1 atmosphere (600 – 1100 g/cm2) at\nsea level (8.5 lbs/sq in – 15.6 lbs/sq in).
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People have been kicking balls about for thousand of years, but soccer (short for asSOCiation football) was invented by public schoolboys in England in the 1860s. (NB You need to know that in England a 'public school' is actually a private, fee-charging school. Go figure!)
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Union came first as an amuture game.It was first played in the English midlands at a Rugby school in 1823 ( the legend is that it was William Webb Ellis who invented the game, but that has been proven as a hoax) In the late 19th century there were players and officials who became disillusioned with the attitue of rugby union and developed a break away code called Rugby League which has always been a professional paid sport.Union officals always wanted to keep Union a gentleman's sport and amature. and it was up until the mid 1990's when attitues changed and players were paid thus now being  a professional sport. ( a well paid one too).
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lacrosse was invented by many indian tribes as a form to prepare for war. the earliest recorded date of lacrosse being played was when all the explorers came to the northern americas.  when the queen of england saw this sport she thought that the sticks look like whats called a La Crosse which is the long metal pole that the pope holds. thats how it got its name
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The origins of soccer go back way further than 1620, most ancient cultures had some sort of ball game played by it's population. The Mayans for instance were playing a ball game over 3000 years ago!\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame\nOfficially though, FIFA credit the invention to the Chinese. That version however was undoubtly was very different to the modern game, which as noted above, was properly formalised into Association Football in England during the 19th Century