The Importance Of Sports In Schools

Sports are part of our lives in the UK from an early age through the school system

. Some of the world's most famous sports began in Britain, including football, cricket, lawn tennis, golf and rugby and these sports are still played regularly in our schools today. Other key sports which are played in schools today are Tennis, netball, and basketball along with many others.

Numerous people believe football is our national sport, but the real national sport is actually cricket. Cricket is played from April through to August on village greens though out the country. Marylebone Cricket Club, based at lords cricket ground in London became responsible for the rules of cricket in the eighteenth century.

Although Cricket is technically our nation's favourite sport, if you ask the average person on the street, football will be invariably be their response. Football is highly televised, and incredibly popular with in the UK. There are a number of English football teams which are famous throughout the world. The most famous being Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Another widley televised sport is Rugby. The game of rugby is a variation on the original game of football which is followed by thousands throughout the world today. The origins of rugby are accredited to William Webb-Ellis, who during a game of football is said to have picked up the ball and ran with it. Back in the day this would have been seen as unacceptable but for some reason this was accepted and a very early version of the game of rugby was born.

A rugby team consists of fifteen players on each side, with up to seven substitutes allowed. A game is made up of two forty minute halves. The object of rugby, like most games is to beat the opposition by scoring more points. In rugby you do this mainly by scoring tries. You are awarded 5 points for each try awarded. You score a try when you ground the ball in the in goal area of the opposition. The goal area is marked out at each end behind the goal posts. In rugby you can also win points by kicking the elongated ball at the goals, over the crossbar. These are very losing and brief explanation of the game as this is a game of complex rules and regulations.

Cricket is game made up of eleven players on each side, two batters stand in front of the wickets which are set about twenty feet apart. Each wicket consists of three wooden rods also known as stumps, pushed in to the ground with two smaller bits of wood known as bails, balanced on top. The batters job during the game is to try stopping this from happening by hitting the ball with a flat side of the bat. If the ball goes far enough then the two batters run back and forth between the wickets while the fielders on the opposite team try to catch or retrieve the ball. The game is scored by counting the number of times, also known as runs, that the batters exchange places.

Footballs beginnings can be partly place on a game known as mob football, this might not seem like the best name, but it basically involved a mob of people trying to manoeuvre an inflated pigs bladder by any means possible from one end of a field to the other.

Although this rough version of the game was seen as good exercise it became regulated and this new less rough version came to be played in English public Schools.

The Football Association was created and set the first official rules in England in 1863. A football team is made up of two teams of eleven players. Only the Goalie is allowed to touch the ball with his hands during play. The field players are to kick the ball to the opposite end of the field to their team's goalie in the aim to score a goal in the opponents net. The team that has scored the most goals at the end of the game wins.

Whether you are a child or an adult getting involved in sport can and will have a positive effect on your life.

by: Ben Whitlow

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