I like to watch rugby international games and American football (when I get a chance.) As both modern games evolved from a common ancestor and the balls have different shapes, I was curious about the history of the balls themselves. It was easy to find examples of the two types of balls for the last hundred years, but there were very few, if any, clear images on the internet of earlier examples. Wikipedia, however, does have a discussion of the how the balls were made in the 19th century for the teams at the Rugby school. With the invention of rubber bladders to replace pig bladders as the inflatable lining of the balls, it became possible to standardize a spherical shape for the balls. Films of the Eton Wall game in the early 20th century show a round ball that I guessed was similar to the ones used a few decades earlier at Rugby.
And Then: I searched for “oldest football” and found images of the ball from Stirling Castle in Scotland dating from around 1540.
Tip-of-the-hat: CG Krab for his leather material that I used in a couple of these models - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coAn-LbAiSk
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