Where did the game of squash come from?
While searching for this answer, I found this interesting fact: There are 154 squash courts in Connecticut; Yale has 25 while the public university of Connecticut has 8 courts. (I live 15 miles north of Yale) http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/squash.htm The origins of all raquet sports are complex but lead to France in the Middle Ages. The thinking is that the original sport, Jeu de Paume, was played with the hand, sometimes a net, sometimes a wall and sometimes neither. Eventually people started wearing gloves, then wrapping their hands and the extension to a raquet or paddle was the next step. This game eventually became tennis, the sport out of which all modern raquet and paddle sports evolved. The game played in America as squash came from a British game, rackets. Rackets had its origin in the court games of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and had a close association with the handball-like game of “Fives.” Rackets was played both inside with three or four walls and
