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    Shuttlecocks Eurasia British Battledore and Shuttlecock Duke of Beaufort Badminton House Gloucestershire Isaac Spratt

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    Badminton developed in the mid-19th century as a variant of battledore and shuttlecock among the British. Its exact origin is unclear but the name comes from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House. Early versions of the game were played with sides of 1-4 players across a string suspended 5 feet high. The game may have originated among British officers in India where it grew popular in the 1870s, sometimes played with a wool ball instead in windy weather. It was also known as Poona after the town where the first rules were written in 1873. By 1875 officers returning to England had started badminton clubs, establishing the best games were between two or four players.

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    Badminton developed in the mid-19th century as a variant of battledore and shuttlecock among the British. Its exact origin is unclear but the name comes from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House. Early versions of the game were played with sides of 1-4 players across a string suspended 5 feet high. The game may have originated among British officers in India where it grew popular in the 1870s, sometimes played with a wool ball instead in windy weather. It was also known as Poona after the town where the first rules were written in 1873. By 1875 officers returning to England had started badminton clubs, establishing the best games were between two or four players.

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    Badminton developed in the mid-19th century as a variant of battledore and shuttlecock among the British. Its exact origin is unclear but the name comes from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House. Early versions of the game were played with sides of 1-4 players across a string suspended 5 feet high. The game may have originated among British officers in India where it grew popular in the 1870s, sometimes played with a wool ball instead in windy weather. It was also known as Poona after the town where the first rules were written in 1873. By 1875 officers returning to England had started badminton clubs, establishing the best games were between two or four players.

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    Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia,[a] but the modern

    game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the British as a variant of the earlier
    game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".)[4] Its exact origin
    remains obscure. The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton
    House in Gloucestershire,[5] but why or when remains unclear. As early as 1860, a London toy dealer
    named Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore – A New Game, but no copy
    is known to have survived.[6] An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton as
    "battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, across a string suspended some five feet from the
    ground".[7]
    The game may have originally developed among expatriate officers in British India,[8] where it was
    very popular by the 1870s.[6] Ball badminton, a form of the game played with a wool ball instead of a
    shuttlecock, was being played in Thanjavur as early as the 1850s[9] and was at first played
    interchangeably with badminton by the British, the woollen ball being preferred in windy or wet
    weather.
    Early on, the game was also known as Poona or Poonah after the garrison town
    of Poona,[8][10] where it was particularly popular and where the first rules for the game were drawn up
    in 1873.[6][7][b]By 1875, officers returning home had started a badminton club in Folkestone. Initially,
    the sport was played with sides ranging from 1 to 4 players, but it was quickly established that
    games between two or four competitors worked the best.[4] The shuttlecocks were coated with India
    rubber and, in outdoor play, sometimes weighted with lead.[4] Although the depth of the net was of no
    consequence, it was preferred that it should reach the ground.[4]

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