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Netball - Strand
The Strand Leisure Pool and Park has a large court on which both
netball an
d five-a-side
football can be played.
Netball was originally called
basquette and its creation comes from a simple misunderstanding.
When Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of the modern game of
basketball, was asked to send a copy of the rules to Clara Baer, a
sports teacher in New Orleans, he sent a drawing of the court with
lines on it. Baer thought that the lines indicated that the players
couldn't leave those areas and thus was the game of netball
created.
Until the formal rules were established in 1960 by the International
Federation of Women's Basketball and Netball, both nine-a-side
and five-a-side versions were played.
Visit England Netball for the
rules of netball.
It costs £15.90 to hire the court.
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