tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76219669948128535072024-03-12T17:38:10.362-07:00British Handball HistoryThis occasional blog mainly focussed on historical aspects of handball in the UK with contributions from individuals involved going back to the late 50s when handball arrived in Hull.
The contributions are likely to increasingly focus on contemporary issues as the sport hopefully grows in popularity.russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-44682005686424456132016-08-12T03:54:00.000-07:002016-08-12T03:54:03.734-07:00Interest in Handball After One Week of Rio 2016The Rio Olympics are now a week old and a good time to analyse the interest in handball raised by the Games. A quick way to get a window on this is to analyse the Wikipedia views that national associations receive. As might be expected Olympic Sports in which Team GB is doing well which are also popular in the UK are gaining hundreds of hits per day. For example as was the case four years ago the British Cycling page has well over 100 hits per day and went over 450 with the first gold in the velodrome yesterday evening. Similarly the British Swimming page is averaging well over 100 hits per day, bolstered by success in the pool. But when we turn to handball and compare it with some of the other minority team ball games and some of the minority sport in which Team GB has done well, handball is gaining a great deal of interest.<div>
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The table below shows a selection of Wikipedia page views from the first week of the Rio Olympics taken from British and English governing body and national association pages (due to time Scottish, Welsh & Northern Irish data could not be analysed). It should be noted that England Fencing does not have a Wikipedia page and British Rowing also acts as the governing body for England. The data shows that page views of the England Handball and British Handball Wikipedia pages compare excellently against the other sports shown. In fact so far the only days on which the England Handball Wikipedia page has not had the most views of these pages are 7 August when Team GB Fencing almost won Bronze and British Fencing Association had 170 views and 11 August when Team GB Rowing won a silver and the British Rowing Wikipedia page had 88 views compared with 74 views for England Handball. So in total the two handball pages have had 639 views which is more than double any of the others shown apart from Rowing on 363.</div>
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As predicted in a previous post, '<a href="http://britishhandballmemories.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/can-rio-give-handball-another-boost.html" target="_blank">Can Rio Give Handball Another Boost?</a>', the exposure that handball is getting due to the organisation of the schedule is a great advantage. Those surfing through the options online of which sport to watch are as likely to encounter handball as any other sport since the programme is across the day and also throughout the games. There are some points in the evening when handball makes it on to the featured options and also the BBC Red Button. This was true yesterday evening between the Cycling finishing in the Velodrome and the Late Swimming session. In this period there were only five live sports and as a result Slovenia's defeat of Sweden was featured on the Rio 2016 landing page.</div>
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Now that the Athletics is starting and the Cyclists look to be hitting form it will be interesting to see if handball can maintain this level of views.</div>
russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-16471584237457002402016-08-08T04:00:00.000-07:002016-08-12T02:45:01.928-07:00Sir Steve Redgrave and HandballThe <a href="http://www.englandhandball.com/" target="_blank">EHA</a>, the governing body of handball in England, has today reported that <a href="http://www.englandhandball.com/redgrave-impressed-by-handball/" target="_blank">Sir Steve Redgrave has spoken in the Radio Times about how impressed he is with handball</a>. In the report he mentions that he went to see handball during the Athens Olympics and was really impressed. What he appears to have forgotten is a little remembered regional sports programme made during the mid-1980s in which two towns played each other at a variety of sports. Now it may have been that the show never made it past the pilot. It certainly didn't survive for a second series if it was commissioned and would not have been shown nationally. Anyway, handball was one of the sports and Sir Steve was the celebrity sportsperson for one of the towns, it may have been Reading. Does anyone remember the name of the programme?russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-48916915805320010632016-08-03T08:43:00.002-07:002016-08-04T05:28:51.804-07:00Can Rio Give Handball Another Boost?<div class="MsoNormal">
The Rio Olympics are almost upon us and with it the four
yearly chance for handball to grab the public’s attention and showcase what it
has to offer. This opportunity was never greater than in 2012 when, as hosts,
Team GB was permitted to field teams across the entire range of sports. Handball
was one of the major beneficiaries of this when, for the first time, the men
and women’s British teams were able to take part in a top level international
competition. Handball made the most of this opportunity by gaining
unprecedented publicity for the sport. Millions watched on the television, new
clubs, such as <a href="http://britishhandballmemories.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/coventry-handball-club.html" target="_blank">Coventry</a>, immediately sprang up around the country, the
<a href="http://britishhandballmemories.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/governing-body-hits-on-wikipedia.html" target="_blank">governing body had more hits on Wikipedia</a> than any other except for cycling and
even Sir Clive Woodward caught the bug, tweeting about the virtues of handball
on more than one occasion, labelling handball as “<a href="https://twitter.com/CliveWoodward/status/230309425762680832" target="_blank">a proven start in creating co-ordination</a>” and expressing the view that handball should be adopted as a
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In the intervening years, between the 2012 and 2016 games,
handball has had an uneven rise. Immediately after the London Olympics the
governing body for handball in England, the EHA, reported a near <a href="http://www.englandhandball.com/participation-in-handball-quadruples/" target="_blank">quadrupling of participation over the period 2010-2012</a>. However, this coincided with <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/handball/22876588" target="_blank">UK Sport withdrawing all funding for elite British handball</a> leading to the closing of
the senior international programme. At grassroots level the growth of the sport
has been phenomenal with the <a href="http://www.englandhandball.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/EnglandHandballAnnualReportv7.pdf" target="_blank">EHA reporting school participation</a> in England
rising from 25 teams in 2010 to 285 in 2014 and over 900 in 2015. This was
helped by <a href="https://www.sportengland.org/our-work/national-governing-bodies/sports-we-invest-in/2013-17-whole-sport-plan-investments/" target="_blank">£1.2 million funding received from Sport England</a> for the period
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The rapid expansion in the number of schools in England
adopting handball has been aided by the sport’s recognition in GCSE PE.
However, the attraction of handball to physical educators is not only for its
novelty value and place in the curriculum; the sport is being adopted because
of a variety of benefits that it brings. In an article published last month, ‘<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08924562.2016.1182365?journalCode=ustr20" target="_blank">Spicing up your curriculum</a>’ by Adolfo Ramos and Keri Esslinger, the writers describe handball
as feeling fresh but that it integrates many principles of more traditional
sports. In it they summarise some of these benefits, noting that handball
develops basic skills and provides participants with a workout in which they
may run up to three miles in a series of short bursts of energy over the period
of an hour. In addition, they point out that the sport helps youngsters develop
decision-making and problem solving and can even contribute to their appreciation
of diversity since handball is popular across the globe and particularly in
continental Europe. Add to these benefits the fact that handball is usually
played indoors and so is rarely a victim of the weather and the relative ease
and frequency with which scoring takes place compared with other popular team
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So, four years on from London, what position is handball in
to exploit the potential boost of the Rio Olympics? There will be no British teams
to follow this time around but even if funding had been available for full Team
GB squads, they would not have made the progress required to qualify in such a
short time frame. On the other hand, since handball is not starting from the
relatively low awareness based of four years ago, more people may be encouraged
to watch, having been introduced to it since 2012. A major drawback for
handball has often been the size of court required; only a small proportion of
sports halls in the UK are built to the dimensions required (40 by 20 metres).
However, this year the EHA has introduced the ‘<a href="http://www.englandhandball.com/tryhandball/" target="_blank">Try Handball</a>’ initiative which
has been designed to introduce more flexibility to the way that handball is
played and importantly encourages play in more limited spaces. Importantly, the
coaching base has also expanded so that when the Olympics have finished there
will be more available to take advantage of any interest generated as well as
many more teachers aware of what the sport has to offer. Handball will also benefit from being one of the few sports that takes place across the whole of the games and across the whole of the sporting day. Until the advent of the <a href="http://www.englandhandball.com/bbc-sport-showing-olympic-handball/" target="_blank">red button and the Internet</a> we were lucky if we had more than the final 30 seconds of the final broadcast on TV. Also, it will be featured in the major holiday event <a href="http://iamteamgb.com/" target="_blank">I am Team GB</a> on Saturday 27 August.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, 6 to 21 August, the duration of the handball tournament
in Rio, may well be the most important 16 days that British handball has had since
London 2012 despite there being no British teams in the tournament. It remains
to be seen if these Games will give the sport the boost it needs to grow even
faster but given the wider participation, and the advances outlined, even a small proportion of the
publicity handball attracted in 2012 should enable it to take advantage.<br />
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russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-49595214796960259072015-11-23T07:03:00.000-08:002015-11-23T07:03:38.997-08:00The End of Brentwood '72An article from the Times of 20 September 1985 by Paul Harrison which explains why the reigning league and cup champions of the day, Brentwood '72, were unable to continue.<br />
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russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-55921267513396023392015-04-02T03:55:00.000-07:002015-04-02T03:55:49.178-07:00Some key moments in the history of British Handball from an article by Joshua Drake published in 2013.<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-18276485902696117152014-11-10T06:19:00.001-08:002014-11-10T06:29:49.711-08:00Handball on TVThe 2012 Olympics were not the first occasion that handball had featured on domestic TV in the UK. As far back as the 1970s the sport was featured on the Saturday afternoon sports programmes Grandstand (BBC1) and World of Sport (ITV). In this cutting from the Guardian of 21 February 1976 the TV schedule shows a handball international between Great Britain and Poland is listed as starting at 1 o'clock. However, the feature was a short one with the News listed as starting at 1.10!<br />
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russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-52251157320351725712013-07-27T15:06:00.002-07:002013-07-27T15:19:33.545-07:00GLSE Select's first ever game in 1981In celebration of GD playing Ruislip in the Copper Box one year on from the Olympics, this post shows a very brief report of the first game played by the GLSE Select team on Saturday 30 May 1981. The team took on a visiting Swiss police team and went down by 34-17. The team line up shows four players from Ruislip Eagles and three from Great Dane. The report appeared in the first edition of the GLSE Handball News in October 1981 on page 13.<br />
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Today is the school national finals for handball and one team taking part with a long tradition is the Cardinal Griffin School in Cannock. This photograph shows a press photograph from the under 15 final in 1982 when Cardinal Griffin defeated Woughton Campus 18-11.</div>
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The school, which has had a long association with the local club Olympia, were so strong back in the early 1980s that they finished 4th in the famous <a href="http://www.interamniaworldcup.com/en/" target="_blank">Teramo Tournament</a> in Italy which was then the European Under-14 Championships in all but name.<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-60770561181236991992013-06-15T13:31:00.000-07:002013-06-15T13:44:31.834-07:001970s Scottish ActionThis photo by Arthur Kinloch appeared in the Glasgow Herald on 11 December 1979. It shows Billy Hayburn (centre with the ball), who then played for Allander and Scotland U21, and two unnamed defenders.<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-28008077184899338772013-05-28T02:53:00.001-07:002013-05-28T02:53:11.051-07:00The Hull Handball League (Part 5) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This photograph appeared in the Hull Daily Mail along with a short interview with Ron Lister. It shows the presentations at the Hull Handball Association Dance in the early '60s which was held at the Beverley Baths.<br />
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In the interview Mr Lister explained that football referees had been recruited to learn the rules of handball and officiate in the league which took place over the summer. It was felt that it was an ideal sport for football and rugby players to play in the closed season.<br />
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As in a previous Hull Daily Mail article, Mr Lister goes on to explain that the first international to be played by Great Britain was against Holland in 1959 and that this was followed up a year later by an international against Germany. However, this report gives further details, in that it confirms that the Germany international was also played in Hull at the Costello Stadium which is now the KC Stadium.russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-78299982146498929472013-02-05T12:49:00.000-08:002013-02-05T12:49:01.697-08:00Scotland - England InternationalsThis is a short report from the Glasgow Herald of Monday 6 May 1985 about the Scotland versus England Handball internationals which had taken place on the weekend before.<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-76702654712787431902013-01-26T07:32:00.000-08:002013-01-26T07:32:39.627-08:00Salford (Ladies) v Ruislip (Ladies) 19 December 1983 This post is a short report from a match played 30 years ago between the Salford Ladies Handball Team and the Ruislip Ladies Handball Team who were known at the time by the sponsor name of Robert Jenkins Systems Handball. The report is from a London Association newsletter hence the lack of mention of the Salford players.<br />
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The game was a National League fixture which threw off at 4.30pm. The teams were lead out by Salford Majorettes and Ruislips' starting seven were<br />
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Fitzgerald opened the scoring for Ruislip and the first half found them exploiting a weak Salford defence but not being able to turn the superiority into the advantage that it should have been. When half-time came Ruislip were leading by six goals to three. The spectators were entertained at half-time by the Salford Majorettes who were a group of mainly 9 to 10 year olds. The second half continued much the same as the first with Ruislip continuing to dominate while playing in a relaxed manor throughout. While the team as a whole played sufficiently well, special mention goes to Sue Roberts in goal who save four penalties. The game ended in a 12-6 victory to the Londoners.<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-79184089046099673122013-01-24T01:59:00.000-08:002013-01-24T01:59:06.744-08:00Ruislip Eagles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Ruislip Eagles Handball Club was formed in 1970 when they were based in the old South Ruislip Leisure centre. The Club have previously been known as Graphite Eagles (when sponsored by Graphite Equipment Ltd) and Robert Jenkins (Graphite were acquired by Robert Jenkins Systems and the name changed as a result of this).</div>
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The men’s and women’s teams were started and coached by Bill Holderness, a GB goalkeeper. The teams were largely made up of British players but gradually more and more overseas players joined the club and brought new skills and experience.</div>
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The club enjoyed a successful spell through the 1980s when many of their players were picked for the national team and the women won the league on several occasions alongside fierce rivals Wakefield.</div>
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The men also were involved with great competition with Brentwood and Liverpool but it was the women’s team who enjoyed the greater success. In 1982 the women became the 1st British team to win a match in a European Cup, beating the Belgian champions over two legs.</div>
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Both men’s and women’s teams have an international flavour with many nationalities playing in both teams.</div>
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russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-28756214744802120002012-09-23T02:27:00.002-07:002012-09-23T02:27:50.126-07:00The Hull Handball League (Part 4): Possibly the oldest club photo<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As previously reported in Part 2 Crawford Sports were the Hull handball league champions in 1961. This photograph taken from the Hull Daily Mail shows the Crawford team lined up as follows: back row Roy Marshall, George Gardiner, Ray Riley, George Nesfield, Ray Sissons and Barry Fuller<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">; f</span></span>ront row Syd Cowan, Col Raper, George Pougher, Ronnie Bray and Terry O'Neill. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The team took the name of the club sponsor Crawford Sports which was a sports shop based in East Hull.</span><br />
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The main source of information comes from the Midland Handball Association's handbook published in 1982. It lists the member clubs as Leicester Computers, Coventry, Leicester '73, Milton Keynes 1980, Olympia (Cannock), Salford and John Quinn Sheffield. Each club has details of officials, colours, match times and a brief history.<br />
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The entry for Coventry shows that the club had previously been known as Nuneaton Tech and Recreation Nuneation and that prominent club members were Frank Dillon, Mick Darlison and Chris Leadbetter. It records the home base as Coventry SC in Fairfax Street and club colours as white shirts, blue shorts (first choice), orange shirts, blue shorts (second choice).<br />
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The history section explains that the club could trace its roots to Nuneaton Tech, a club which had been founder members of the English National League and places its establishment as 1975 at the latest. In 1977 a 'B' team (Nuneaton Newdegate) was formed to play in the lower league. The team eventually broke away from Tech after sports centres were opened at Etone and Jubilee and the club was renamed Recreation Nuneaton. In 1980 Recreation won the English Second Division but they were apparently denied promotion due to reorganization of the leagues meaning that all teams had to go through regional qualifying. The final National League table for 1980/81 shows that the team finished sixth out of seven in a league which was won convincingly by Brentwood '72.<br />
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The Midland's Handbook then explains that the club moved to Coventry following a friendly against a Scottish team called Linwood and that the club started 1981/82 very well but that due to rule infringements had points deducted. They also went out of the British Cup in the first round losing 26-24 to Great Dane London. The Midland Directory was introduced for the 1982/83 season and finishes the piece on Coventry by saying that the club resigned its place in the National League position in 1982 to join the Midland League. This is verified by BHA publications which show Coventry in mid-table after six games of the '81/82 season but as not being in the league on publication of the final table.<br />
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The 1982/83 season proved to be the last for the club and shows that there may have still bee problems as records from the season show that Coventry were in the Midland League but the final standing only show four teams (Milton Keynes 1980, Olympia, Salford and John Quinn Sheffield). Despite this, the records show that Coventry were involved in an exciting cup tie in the first round of the British Cup. Playing Kirkby Select, a National League team, Coventry tied the game 20-20. Following extra time the game was still level at 22-22. It took a further period of extra-time for Kirkby to defeat Coventry 24-23.<br />
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1983 proved to be Coventry's final year. It is recorded in the November 1983 edition of the BHA publication 'Word is...' that the club came about from the 'considerable work done by Frank Dillion' and that following Frank's move to Saudi Arabia the club had folded.<br />
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So, 30 years after the former club embarked on its last season, the new club is about to embark on the first of what will hopefully be many.<br />
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Good luck Coventry Handball Club! <a href="http://coventryhandball.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Click to find out more about the new club.</a><br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-84631254673582048452012-08-31T01:46:00.000-07:002013-02-18T08:47:10.261-08:00The Hull Handball League (Part 3) The first ever GB teamHull was not only the location of the first handball league in Britain; it was also where the first ever Great Britain representative team played. The status of this representation is not clear; on the one hand there was no official Handball Association but on the other hand the Hull league was recognized by the IHF. It is reported by the Hull Daily Mail that Great Britain played Holland on Sunday 28 June 1959 at the Costello Stadium in West Hull.<br />
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Syd Cowan, who played in the game, explained that the Dutch were much better but that the score was kept down by the brilliant goalkeeping of Billy Bly. Cowan said "I played in this game and have one of the commemorative plaques. The Dutch players handled the ball and moved it quicker than us and ran into open spaces. When they shot at goal they took the ball on the move and leaped and hurled the ball down from about nine feet high - no wonder Billy looked a bit downcast towards the end".<br />
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One of the officials on the day, Ron Lister, explained that a further international took place, this time against Germany in 1960 and Cowan adds that the team also traveled to Germany to play a team from Freiburg. The team which played Freiburg are lined up in the poor quality photograph below which, was published in the Hull Daily Mail. The photograph, dated August 1960, is almost certainly the oldest in existence of a handball team in Britain.<br />
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A page from the programme of the international in 1959 (shown below) confirms that the game played in Hull 50 years ago was in fact the 11-a-side version of handball. There is not much footage of this version of handball but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NGmByqjY_o" target="_blank">this short clip</a> shows a game between East Germany and Austria from the same period.<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-45662611905148280542012-08-28T14:17:00.000-07:002012-08-29T04:21:01.823-07:00The Hull Handball League 1958-62 (part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sir Clive Woodward recently tweeted that handball is the ideal second sport for football and rugby teams. Well the truth is that for a few years around 50 years ago it was ... in Hull.<br />
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Handball in Hull lasted for just four years. It is clear that it was introduced in 1958 by Dr Seewald while Syd reports that the Division One Shield was last contested in 1962 after which "sadly the game petered out." There is no mention of any silverware in 1958 which is not surprising given the fact that it had only just been introduced however in 1959 a tournament was organised with a team by the name of Asbestos winning the trophy. In 1961 the full league was organised and the Shield winners were Crawfords Sports. The second and final year of the league saw Hull Boys Club win the Shield.<br />
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russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-3599030062080343482012-08-14T14:52:00.001-07:002012-08-14T23:42:03.662-07:00Governing body hits on WikipediaHow do you measure the level of interested generated by different sports during the Olympics? I'm sure MORI or IPOS are being commissioned to carry out surveys to measure people's attitudes but a crude insight into the level of interested is whether people can be bothered to find out a bit more and maybe investigate the governing bodies of sports. One method by which people do this is to search Wikipedia. Fortunately, data is available for the number of hits a Wikipedia page receives each day and this has today been analysed to compare the 30 day period since 15 July. It should first be noted that a few governing bodies still do not have Wikipedia pages e.g. Weightlifting and others have governing bodies which do not exist at a British level e.g. Badminton and Football.<br />
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So which British governing body has received the most hits in the past 30 days? With 11,897 hits cycling wins hands down, although it needs to be remembered that some of the hits will have resulted from the exceptional performance of British cyclists during the Tour de France. So we move on the the silver medal and ... Yes! The page British Handball Association with 3,453 views beats UK Athletics (3,153), British Swimming (2269) and British rowing (2173).<br />
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A little like the claims that Scotland and Yorkshire make about where they would come in the medal table, England Handball would have been fourth with 2459. Finally, Scottish Handball (568) had more views than the British governing body pages for five other Olympic sports.<br />
<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-29379290763931620142012-08-14T05:38:00.001-07:002012-08-14T05:38:30.064-07:00England - Scotland Internationals Required Urgently!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The London Olympics are over and everything indicates that handball has been one of the big successes of the games. Sell out crowds attended the Copper Box and Basketball Arena creating one of the best atmospheres for any sport, there was a television audience which rivalled those for judo and water polo and journalists and broadcasters continually raved about this undiscovered sport. Sir Clive Woodward has even suggested in a tweet that ‘all team sports should play handball as their second sport’.<br />
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So what about the legacy? During the course of the Olympics new teams and interest started to appear almost every day - 'Anyone interested in starting a team in Sunderland?', 'We've just started a team in Aberystwyth.' and Telford Handball Club has appeared on Facebook to give just three examples. This is a good start, however as Daly Thompson pointed out, if sports don't act immediately then all the free publicity will be for nothing.<br />
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So here are a few points:<br />
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It's good news that a teams such as Liverpool and Rutland are involved in the Join in UK initiative <a href="https://www.joininuk.org/">https://www.joininuk.org/</a> but why isn't handball listed on the drop down menu of sports to choose from? 'I want to try handball ... oh it's not on the menu.' Yes, it's about trying local sport but maybe some people would be willing to travel to Liverpool or Rutland to give it a go if they knew the session was on. With no handball on the menu they can't.<br />
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Wikipedia is mocked by many but it's where many people go to get their information and then follow links. There has been a massive surge in hits on handball related pages including that for the BHA and EHA. It is quite normal nowadays that organisation manage their Wikipedia pages, so that links work and information is accurate and useful. The EHA link was broken on Wikipedia until a few days ago when I noticed this and fixed it.<br />
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Finally, we need a follow up event that will serve as a bridge to raise interest again before the new handball season starts and before the Olympics are forgotten about. If it is not planned then how about an England Scotland International day featuring the male and female teams? Or how about something similar to the Rugby League where the Great Britain teams would take on the best of the English and Scottish Leagues? Better still let's have both of these events. The public would see their Olympic handball heroes in action while they can still remember the names.<br />
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Given the way that the BBC is currently raving about handball they will surely put the licence fee money where their mouths are!<br />
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<br />russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-67577474585396033112011-06-12T08:25:00.000-07:002011-06-12T11:46:45.285-07:00The best team in BritianThe wingman recently asked on the British Handball Forum, which team has been the best of the past decade. But which has been the best in the history of British handball? In the light of Great Danes' impressive domectic record over the decade they have a case. Of course it is never easy to compare teams from different eras but the Danes' impressive record over recent years would certainly take some beating. The list of honours recorded by The wingman reads as follows:<br /><br /><span class="SmallText"><span class="NormalText">2011 - English League Champions<br />2011 - English Cup Champions<br />2010 - English League Champions<br />2009 - English League Champions<br />2009 - English Cup Champions<br />2008 - English League Champions<br />2008 - British Cup Champions<br />2007 - Weymouth Beach Handball Champions<br />2007 - English League Runners up<br />2007 - British Cup Champions<br />2006 - British Cup Champions<br />2006 - 3rd place in England League<br />2006 - Runners up in Weymouth Beach Handball Tournament<br />2005 - British Cup Champions<br />2005 - England League Champions<br />2005 - Oktopus Tournament (Eindhoven) Champions<br />2004 - British Cup Champions<br />2001 - England League Champions<br />2000 - England League Champions<br /><br />So in summary<br /><br />7 English league championships<br />5 British Cups<br />2 English Cups<br />1 Beach Handball<br />1 Tournament<br /><br />The records I have to hand are incomplete and other caveats such as the ability of teams to field their strongests teams consistently and the quality of opposition at the time make comparison even more difficult. However, some teams that might be considered for comparison are the following:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brentwood '72</span> (mid '70s to mid '80s)<br /><br />The records that I have at hand show that they were English League champions each year from 1979 to 1983, British Cup winners each year from 1979 to 1982 and Bristol Tournament winners in 1981. In essence for this period of time they were untouchable and this made the 1983 Cup Final when the lost to thier arch rivals Liverpool by one goal all the more memorable, although as a report of the game shows Brentwood had a number of important players missing. Why were this team so good? In two words, Goran Gazivoda. Not just because he was the highest profile handball player ever to be involved in British Handball, or because he was one of the best coaches to pass knowledge on to British players but because he assembled a team of the best British players. The best players were prepared to travel miles to be part of the Brentwood set up, in fact the remaining members of the British team based in England all played on Merseyside.<br /><br />Whether Brentwood's dominence at the time was a good thing for the long term good of the game is open to debate but is not the topic here. The facts speak for themselves; for almost 5 years between 1978 and 1983 Brentwood did not lose a single game in domestic competition.<br /><br />Despite this record teams in England that may rival it are Kirkby in the early '70s and Liverpool from the mid-80s however my records are incomplete so I leave it for others to proide support in terms of numbers of titles.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">East Kilbride</span> (mid-70s to mid-80s)<br /><br />I know little of Scottish handball but East Kilbride's record published in the entry of 4 October 2009 shows that they won 6 Scottish Championships and 5 Scottish Cups between 1974 and 1979. The entry club's Wikipedia entry further claims Scottish Championships in a further two years 1983 and 1984 after the club had merged with Barrhead to become EK82.<br /><br />A rival bid could I imagine be put forward by Tryst '77 of Cumbernuld in either the '90s or '00s but again I leave it for others to provide comprehensive data.<br /><br />For <span style="font-weight: bold;">women's handball</span> my records are even more sketchy but if records are available for Ruislip Ladies after the mid-80s or Wakefield Metros or Tiger Belles before the mid-80s, I think there might be some periods of dominence showing up. </span></span><span class="SmallText"><span class="NormalText"><br /><br />Of course it would be useful if </span></span><span class="SmallText"><span class="NormalText">full records could be published by the Associations</span></span><span class="SmallText"><span class="NormalText"> or, if records are missing, that they started wikis on the sites (if they have already I couldn't find them)</span><span class="NormalText">. That way we could share all sorts of records</span></span><span class="SmallText"><span class="NormalText">, documents, photos etc centrally.</span></span><b><b><span class="SmallText"><span class="NormalText"><br /></span></span></b></b>russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-70247733919994080482010-06-06T06:47:00.000-07:002010-06-06T07:33:30.018-07:00GB U21 men win 30 years ago this yearPosts to this blog are rare and will continue to be rare due to most of the available material being posted already. If anyone has any interesting material relevant to the blog to share then I'm happy to add authors. Anyway, I recently found the two reports which are attached to this post and since it will soon be the 30th anniversary of the game in question then it seemed a good time to post. The game appears to be significant since both reports suggest that it is a first win but the evidence isn't entirely clear; one saying a first for the GB U21 men's team and the other saying the first win in 10 years for any GB men's team. Does anyone have conclusive evidence to support either claim?<br /><br />However, 27 September 1980 is a night probably best remembered by many of the UK population for the scenes at Wembley Arena as Marvin Hagler put Alan Minter in his place and then had to rushed back to the changing rooms as the crowd rioted. It was a different story for the small crowd that gathered in Milton Keynes as the Great Britain Under 21 team beat the Liectenstein by 27-25.<br /><br />The two short reports are from local Milton Keynes papers. The Milton Keynes Gazette has a photo of Tony Tropp, GB's top scorer with 11 goals, being held back by an opponent. The Milton Keynes Express photo is less clear but certainly shows Larry Beard (No.2; 1 goal), Philip Church (fart right; 3 goals) and Billy Hayburn (partially hidden by Larry Beard; 9 goals). 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 283px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392921935934473618" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMNr-_9pI18oDx93SAUiBlOP3mUIBPSElHIb6lPSPQ-Lii_esfak5rqnmpzA1onVwpR2RJDkg2bygXE37Q3n_5R0XD_ncb70bLyvX4bxTZbahEjLKwZC0K1PAjsm1q7KkU-ORWLvTUj1K/s400/IMG_0019.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMu5r09u-1urWg3hPI7D5axg1EBF-BY2GNhI7uAzpjzFX9LeYVZvtGuaMxJKQLn6k1v5-bjQhnaX6JQKpeEhLIQxiU_tDuqapjmYMsw_FaZCqmwjTD8_KRtVoCdmWzTTJY8tU-NHNum2U6/s1600-h/IMG_0020.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 283px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392921746101078290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMu5r09u-1urWg3hPI7D5axg1EBF-BY2GNhI7uAzpjzFX9LeYVZvtGuaMxJKQLn6k1v5-bjQhnaX6JQKpeEhLIQxiU_tDuqapjmYMsw_FaZCqmwjTD8_KRtVoCdmWzTTJY8tU-NHNum2U6/s400/IMG_0020.jpg" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621966994812853507.post-16471966935276795142009-10-12T12:24:00.000-07:002009-10-15T13:41:18.885-07:00East Kilbride Magazine no.4 1980<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">This is the final post of the East Kilbribe Club Magazine. Unfortunately this copy isn't as clear as the previous two, but is still worth reading for the account of the club trip to Scovlunde in Denmark.</span> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391800275211099922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuf2NArCoQvg7mrv0stPsRjtWTbUdA1TJ7d2khU7mVwQxmQHgChOfhMYWxmYXdcNrWq4QYaX-JW6dfAHEAFuZOtnip8mXnSsMF7GFqYSM_Il3yk00e1w-BiEhmqNb8hTi-t3uMJgd-IAC/s400/IMG_0040.jpg" /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391799884520849458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6SiJnYJ9yewDksNR77IGtHndTVkQYYaOj5BerhEE-Jd-daXUUXT2kasu_XQAcpvi8rSziW9T01VeYYE8SccK363tDfUcfKxHXFdfRIRmxnVbMst2RS9LNZx5A8jEfX_Ta-5Awnkqa33Z/s400/IMG_0031.jpg" /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391799696849354946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha_v8HXNXEZcnFx3lhHOrV-R2CK7NUBJClDWlonKoTa8CWITkW5wIm-A_dyOn86foxgqDlRH2tpOH5Vy-Vb4xXxVXDopQFFP_diD2i2WMrLm4f3SwsNWTb9VAxmIfo8P5BjqP7iBOCqovA/s400/IMG_0032.jpg" /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391799366112611170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3nWiR2fzYhcR6ZDk7x_ctAifMfynGl3MLgsOxIAU2hpI-Xvh7045JDXydQ5R9lM8nKHr-foKcMFk2cfimSo9rIQ39cARmfdRX8CvPz52y1yPBTJrv3VSRS2mks47coEx3vGSTm4lOFEOu/s400/IMG_0033.jpg" /><br /><br /><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrQ1YZnnENl390HIu1Z31GO7BfP9-zqsjhivLrNS3J9NwNNLhWAVSUMxOw7QxxrYH73Oqc8Yecw78FeurMr7mpDsqNgD27DWz65eBQhcNvZJM4XKNdmdNU1_c5VUTy2X8FO6EgpCeT9sM/s1600-h/IMG_0034.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391799122883406178" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrQ1YZnnENl390HIu1Z31GO7BfP9-zqsjhivLrNS3J9NwNNLhWAVSUMxOw7QxxrYH73Oqc8Yecw78FeurMr7mpDsqNgD27DWz65eBQhcNvZJM4XKNdmdNU1_c5VUTy2X8FO6EgpCeT9sM/s400/IMG_0034.jpg" /></a> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391798880749244034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRLhghU4zdqqBid0CtodfMpaex1bTBmaGs_D0uD_gQND7RMzBTEvAQB7dsuy4z9Wqj3Dz9A8dntiM_KXL8cDcATY-JYzfGZhlfR42pAiGmgFsUc5B-sZ-XFlb-QgvbyfYogZY-o70STNaj/s400/IMG_0035.jpg" /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391798579609358018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EfMAAoA3B3I0lBdEDzc0C3qH43Bx7xI4AnhPKL1WYzOi7Tp2hUhiFSQng8Eiq1dzl0IgSNPB92630cbkVKJJkqK7Yx_0t3Qxvs7trvW0OXTJG9n8CIW3pQxUfniUyWEW1ESdqDQNbcmJ/s400/IMG_0036.jpg" /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391797783992801346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAMOmGxsM9oo0w5YYAkw04r032pCrRB1bQnGwDY-0Ldyd2rnxcEjvriFgVUZazqWP1veB6pKljc3CHTv291ZWOGLzMo9qttFXECpbr8Ho3BaT0hyphenhyphend0yP8_oS4ZiWuaMuocKogjjcVwiSK/s400/IMG_0037.jpg" /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391797556694763026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixqhjQ3y12TZAGNffNXmaWOCicfT9TRP0vxeJss60eLaXBuEX1lOx3HdU3qCL0uG1cyRG_r1eGRozeTbMRg4vSOiV58ejnZFt5Fen1OKvF1_uST9Bb1yqTh7jXSDxy9EClR7ztokUkKDUB/s400/IMG_0038.jpg" /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391797252741580946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOFcBnndsCXUNJQmFUI0et0AuBIhVnpqyY_05NjB-npckCmvwSdp0sKWrJMSFr_odZR_cYGHhg46SJz-bSQG3_N3OQvrVpJDyg84gvg7gkpi_MY03ms7Sic5PKuDuoRhQ07RCzIdT9XM0Q/s400/IMG_0039.jpg" /></div></div>russellhaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960931131819246511noreply@blogger.com0