UW Dawg Pound · Nov 24, 2016
Mailbag: “Cup of Apples” Edition
Useless facts to enlighten your Thanksgiving cohorts:
The first hockey puck ever used was a frozen piece of cow dung.
The first professional football team with an insignia on its helmet was the Los Angeles Rams, who hand-painted gold horns on their leather helmets.
Prior to 1859, baseball umpires sat in padded rocking chairs behind the catcher.
About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the approximately 650 games of the Wimbledon Championship.
In bowling, three strikes in a row is known as a turkey. The term originated in the 1800s, when the first member of a team to throw three strikes in a row was given a free turkey.