21. Curling History A onetime visit which allows you to learn-to-curl , play a game or practice your skills http://www.kccurling.com/news/curlingfeeds/41-curling/46-curling-history.html

22. Chicago Curling Club Curling History Curling History. An excellent history of the sport of curling can be found at the World Curling Federation's History of Curling site. http://curlingchicago.org/content.aspx?page_id=9&club_id=196081

23. Sweden Makes Women's Curling History - Olympics, Other Winter Sports- NBC Sports Feb 23, 2006 Swedes first to hold all major titles at same time after beating Swiss 76 http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/11524779/ns/sports-winter_olympics/

24. Untitled Document Curling is a very old scottish sport. It isn't known, when scottish people began playing Curling. But in the Smith Institute in Stirling is a rock with the http://library.thinkquest.org/26974/e_history.htm

History Curling is a very old scottish sport. It isn't known, when scottish people began playing Curling. But in the Smith Institute in Stirling is a rock with the engraved year 1511 exposed. The first report about a Curlingmatch between two monks stems from Paisley Abbey near Glasgow and is dated February 1541. Someone named Mr. James Gall let on his tombstone engrave in Perth, Scotland, that he was a big Curling fan. The ancient Scotland was a poor country. The Citys hadn't got a lot citizens, no public traffic existed, the land was poor and only within some months useful. So, the only occupation of the Scots was to thrash the British or steal some sheeps of the neighbor's clan. But at all times, they did sports. The hooligans were probably a scottish invention, because 1457, the scottish parliament prohibitted Soccer and Golf (!) because they aroused riots. Curling wasn't endangered by this prohibition allthough the rocks were great to hit an opponent.. The first Curling rocks weighted only 2 or 3 kg. They had the design of a hand. And so they were called "loofies" (loof=hand in old english) With the help of the time, the rocks became like today ones. The people called them boulders, gave them a handle and rounded them like the modern rocks . At the beginning, everybody knew, that you must shoo the rockk from A to B, but no precise rules were known. Especially the lenght or width of the rink or the size and the weight of the rock were unknown.. That's why some real boulders appeared in 18th Century. The biggest one, the "Jubilee Stone" had the weight of 58.5 kg. If this would be still so today, Curling would be a sport for strong men. Fortunately, the evolution took another way.

25. Curling History: Mapping Scotland's Curling Places We have already described how David has researched, from a variety of sources, the various places in Scotland where curling was played . Lindsay Scotland suggested putting all http://curlinghistory.blogspot.com/2008/07/mapping-scotlands-curling-places.html

26. Mississaugua Golf & CC - Curling History Curling History. In1959, a six sheet curling rink was added to provide yearround enjoyment for its members. Construction started in May 1958. Masons strike held up completion http://www.mississauguagolf.com/index.cfm?ID=228

27. Curling History | Circle City Curling Club Founded in 2007, the Circle City Curling Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and education of the sport of curling in Indianapolis. http://circlecitycurling.com/?q=node/5

28. Curling Facts, History And How To Play Things to consider when going curling Teams are made of 4 people (each player throws 2 stones). Two teams play against each other on one sheet (lane) of ice. http://www.citywindsor.ca/000559.asp

//Top Navigational Bar III v3.4.1.1b (By BrotherCake @ cake@brothercake.net) //Permission granted/modified by Dynamicdrive.com to include script in archive //For this and 100's more DHTML scripts, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ //This notice MUST stay intact for legal use Skip Navigation RECREATION AND CULTURE Activity Guide Birthday Parties ... Directions Curling Facts, History and How to Play Normal Version Printer Friendly Page Things to consider when going curling: Teams are made of 4 people (each player throws 2 stones). Two teams play against each other on one "sheet" (lane) of ice. Time can be saved by pre-arranging teams. The four positions are: Lead: Second: Vice: Skip: Throws last, holds brush for all other players, tells other players when to sweep, watches the "curl" of the stone - has most difficult shots as all other stones have already been played - team captain. You will need a warm sweater and a very, very clean pair of running shoes How to Play: At the conclusion of an end the two Vices must agree on the score and it is marked on the scoreboard. (Measuring devices are used if the naked eye cannot determine which stone is closer.) At the conclusion of a game the teams shake hands and say "Good Curling". Brief History of the Sport: While it is true that the sport of curling dates back to the 15th century, the modern version (Scottish style) originated in the early 17th century. The oldest Curling Club in North America is Royal Montreal Curling Club (1807). Curling was always played outdoors, usually on frozen lakes, until the 20th century. Curling was a demonstration sport in the Olympics 4 times (1924, 1932, 1992, 1994) before being admitted as a full medal sport in 1998. Canada has more curlers in total than any other country.

29. Vancouver Now - Curling History Canada reintroduced the sport at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics to the delight of curlers around the globe. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/history/story/2009/11/25/spo-sport-history-curling.ht

30. Ny Side 1 Index site. Guestbook World Curling Championship European Curling Championship Unknown Pins Pacific Curling Championship http://www.curlinghistory.com/lande.htm

Index site. Guestbook World Curling Championship European Curling Championship Unknown Pins ... Denmark I reland Poland W.C.F England ... Pictures from Curling Events

31. KilsythCurling KILSYTH Birthplace of World Curling 1716 History and Origins of Curling. There are strong and credible claims that Kilsyth is the true birthplace of the roaring http://www.paperclip.org.uk/kilsythweb/Communityresources/Curlinghistory.htm

KILSYTH - Birthplace of World Curling 1716 History and Origins of Curling There are strong and credible claims that Kilsyth is the true birthplace of the "roaring game". The first written reference to a contest using stones on ice come from the records in 1541 from Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, although the word appeared in print in Perth in 1220. By 1511 some form of organised curling was taking already place in the Stirlingshire and Kilsyth areas. But for the records, in 1716, the world's first known (and still surviving) curling club was founded in Kilsyth. T he old curling pond at Colzium Estate, still exists, now a favourite picnic site and beauty spot which is unde r threat by Wimpey Homes . Public curling also took place at Banton Loch A Brief History of Curling The true origin of this ancient game is obscure. Some believe it had its beginnings on the frozen ponds and streams of the Continent. Others insist that the "roaring game" is Scottish through and through. The game of curling was already popular in Scotland in the early sixteenth century - as evidenced by a curling stone, inscribed "St. Js B Stirling". A famous curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 was uncovered, along with another bearing the date 1551, when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.

32. Soudog's Curling History Site: Curling At The Olympics Curling was a fullmedal sport for the first time in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Curling has, however, been a demonstration sport on four previous occasions in 1924 at Chamonix http://soudogcurling.tripod.com/Olympics/

Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); OLYMPIC CURLING HISTORY Curling was a full-medal sport for the first time in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Curling has, however, been a demonstration sport on four previous occasions: in 1924 at Chamonix, France; in 1932 at Lake Placid, New York; in 1988 at Calgary; and in 1992 at Albertville, France. Here, then, is a retrospective of Curling at the Olympics. Click on Olympic image to see each year. 1924 - CHAMONIX, FRANCE Demonstration Event 1932 - LAKE PLACID, NEW YORK, USA Demonstration Event 1948 - ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND Demonstration Event 1964 - INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA Demonstration Event 1988 - CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA Demonstration Event 1992 - ALBERTVILLE, FRANCE Demonstration Event 1998 - NAGANO, JAPAN Full Medal Event 2002 - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA Full Medal Event 2006 - TORINO, ITALY Full Medal Event BACK TO MAIN PAGE

33. FCC Curling History | Fredericton Curling Club The sport of curling started about five centuries ago on the lakes of Scotland. Historians disagree as to whether it was Scotland or the Netherlands. http://www.fcc1854.com/history

Fredericton Curling Club 154 Years of Curling! FCC Curling History The sport of curling started about five centuries ago on the lakes of Scotland. Historians disagree as to whether it was Scotland or the Netherlands. However, there is no question that in New Brunswick, curling started in Fredericton during 1854. 1854 was the year Fredericton businessman, John Neill, imported curling stones from Scotland, started curling in Fredericton and founded the Fredericton Curling Club. Mr. John Neill would never have imagined that 150 years later his image would be displayed publicly or that his great grandson, Mr. Bob Neill, would currently be an active curler in the club that he founded. Officer's Square has great historical significance to the commencement of curling in New Brunswick. A letter written by Mr John Neill, founder of the Fredericton Curling Club, documents many details related to the start of curling in this area. A brief excerpt from Mr. Neill's letter: "We had great difficulty at first in getting good ice. We tried the river, Heron's Lake and the Nashwaak and several other places, but never had so good a place as we got at last in the Officer's Square." He further states in the same letter that they were required to use the gravelled roads in the square and had to haul the water in wooden casks on sleds to make the ice.

34. Curling History The sport of Curling was from Scotland n then established in Canada. Get involved in what this wonderful sport is all about. http://www.wintersports360.net/the-age-old-sport-of-curling.html

35. San Diego News Network | Curling History W/Video With Olympic curling underway in Vancouver, Curl San Diego is giving Southern Californians a chance to get in on the action. http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/tag/curling-history

36. The Curling News: Denmark Curling History The official Blog of The Curling News, planet Earth's official voice on curling. Founded in Canada in 1957 and still the definitive authority on the sport today. http://curlnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/denmark-curling-history.html

37. AMERICAN CURLING HISTORY MUSEUM AMERICAN CURLING HISTORY MUSEUM . The Chicago Curling Club is proud to house a unique collection of North American curling memorabilia, records, equipment, pins, and other general http://curlingchicago.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=196081&module_

38. History Of Curling The Marquess of Breadalbane . Preface. IN view of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club in 1888, a Special Committee was appointed at the Meeting of http://www.electricscotland.com/history/curling/

History of Curling By John Kerr (1890) The Marquess of Breadalbane Preface IN view of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club in 1888, a Special Committee was appointed at the Meeting of the previous year to consider what should be done in the way of celebrating the Club's Jubilee. Among the suggestions sent up in the Report of this Committee, and adopted by the Club, was one to this effect: "That a Literary Committee be appointed, with powers, for the purpose of preparing a sketch of the Royal Club's history during the last fifty years." Of this Literary Committee, the Rev. John Kerr was appointed Convener, and the preparation of the volume was thereafter entrusted to him to be carried through under the Committee's supervision. Some words are necessary to explain how a work thus primarily intended to be a sketch of the history of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club should gradually have developed into a "History of Curling." The story of the Royal Club was obviously but the concluding chapter of a long history which had yet to be written. It was thus very early seen that, to do justice to the subject, it would require to be treated more fully than was at first contemplated. At the Jubilee Dinner in 1888, Lord Balfour of Burleigh said "that one of the wants which might reasonably be filled in the Jubilee year of the Club was a really good painstaking history of the game, which would hand down to posterity all that was known of it at the present time." That want, it is hoped, has now been supplied; at all events, every effort has been made to do so.

39. Canadian Olympic Curling History Hockey may be Canadas game, but curling is Canadas life. The game of curling was invented in Scotland. The game of curling was already in existence in Scotland in the early http://www.yousaytoo.com/canadian-olympic-curling-history/199108

40. Curling History, Cont. Curling History (continued) likely date to the late 1700s. The first documented record is the founding of the Montreal Curling Club in 1807. In 1832, the Orchard Lake Curling http://www.norfolkcurlingclub.org/hist2.html

Home Membership Leagues Bonspiels ... Contact Curling History (continued) likely date to the late 1700s. The first documented record is the founding of the Montreal Curling Club in 1807. In 1832, the Orchard Lake Curling Club, near Detroit, became the first curling club in the United States, organized at the home of Dr. Robert Burns. The Orchard Lake group curled on Lake St. Clair. The oldest continuously operating curling club in the United States is the Milwaukee, Wisconsin club, founded in 1845. The Scottish founders’ roster included such names as Murray, Ferguson, Dunlop, Gunyon, Findlay, Kinney, McFarland and McFadyen. Since the mid-1800s, curling has spread and thrived in northern states, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and also in the Great Lakes, New England and mid-Atlantic states. There are dedicated pockets of curling activity in other states, including Alaska, Washington, California, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and North Carolina. In all, there are active curling clubs in 26 states in the nation. In the United States today, there are over 15,000 curlers in over 135 clubs, most of which own their ice facility. While many U.S. curlers have Scottish roots, modern curling club membership rosters tend to reflect an ethnic cross-section of their communities, which are preponderantly small-town rural. The largest curling club in the USA is the St. Paul, Minnesota, club, with over 700 members.

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