BOWLING, A BRIEF HISTORY

The term bowl is thought to be derived from the Saxon bolla and the Danish bolle, both meaning, in the literal sense, “bubble.” The word later referred to any round or spherical object. Some trace the to the Latin bulla or round ball, and others just prefer the French form of the word boule, meaning ball.
It didn’t what you called it or how you played it, bowling has been around for a long while and I know that you don’t want to hear about the ancient Egyptians and how they started it all, so I won’t say anything about them. The process of throwing things at other things in the purpose of knocking the other things over has been an urge inside of man for many centuries.
In other studies, a man by the name of Dr. Malcom Rogers, who is the curator of the San Diego Museum, discovered an ancient bowling game as performed by the Polynesians, in which small elliptical balls, and round flat discs of stone, about four inches in diameter were used. The game was called...