At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand.

A very rarely-used trick play known as the " fake fumble " calls for the quarterback to lay the ball on the ground as he backs up after receiving the snap, so that a pulling guard can pick it up and run the ball around the end.

As he lay unconscious from the impact, he still had a viselike grip on the ball.

His flaw, though, is that on all three rounds, he refused to lay up on the par-5 18th hole, hitting the ball into the pond.

The females lay hundreds or even thousands of eggs in a ball which they initially carry about on their abdomen, and later deposit into the water.

The main workings are on the eastern outcrop of the deposits at Kingsteignton, which can lay claim to being the centre of Britain's ball clay industry.

One of the most anticipated new features was EA Sport's " Freestyle Control " which allows the user to flick the ball on and lay it off to team mates.

On the floor lay a ball.

Since the bunker lay outside of the gallery ropes in an area where the crowd had been walking, Johnson had not realized that the sandy area where his ball lay was in fact a bunker.

If the player failed, even hitting their opponent's ball, his next shot would have to be played from where his ball now lay.

It is the opinion of many people in the bowling community that these advances in bowling ball technology have undermined bowling skill and have made it more difficult for lane maintenance personnel to lay out fair and credible conditions for participants.

Held balls occur when two opposing players both lay equal claim to the ball, and after trying to wrestle it from each other, end up in a stalemate.

Short even for the 19th century ( less than five feet four or 162 centimetres ) Briggs ' skill lay in his ability to vary the flight and pace of the ball as well as in achieving prodigious spin on the primitive pitches of the nineteenth century.

He had " several good shots ," and proceeded on till coming between the meeting-house and Buckman's tavern at Lexington, with a prisoner before him, the cannon of the British began to play, the balls flying near him, and for safety he retreated back behind the meeting-house, when a ball came through near his head, and he further retreated to a meadow north of the house and lay there and heard the balls in the air and saw them strike the ground.

During the game at ball as he kicked the ball, a lay friend of his, also called William, ran against him and wounded himself on a sheathed knife carried by the canon, so severely that he died within six days.

They are also commonly used to " lay up " in front of a hazard or to create a better lie for the next shot, and for recovery from firmer rough or sometimes from sand when the ball is lying on top of the surface.

Ducks can be tricked into laying eggs where desired by placing a golf ball or similar object in a place where they might normally lay.

He sits there remembering the tense moment before the ball was snapped ; ;

Under the trees, there was a dead redcoat, a young boy with a pasty white skin and a face full of pimples, who had taken a rifle ball directly between the eyes.

but packed in that metallic ball there was the explosive force of 20,000 tons of Aj.

For example, the Banach – Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition.

While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

This version of croquet varies from six-wicket croquet in that there are nine wickets, two stakes, and players usually compete individually with a single ball, with up to six players competing.

Much like the 2007 play-in game when it was not clear whether or not Matt Holliday had touched home plate with the game-winning run, there was question as to whether Barmes actually caught the ball, as photos later emerged showing the ball apparently sliding down his arm as he went to the ground.

If a vector field F with zero divergence is defined on a ball in R < sup > 3 </ sup >, then there exists some vector field G on the ball with F = curl ( G ).

Also, if a gust of wind blows the ball over on a place kick attempt after the kicker has begun their run-up, thus allowing the opposing team to begin a charge down, then there is no time to reset the ball, and the kicker may attempt a quick drop kick.

Under NFL and NCAA rules, once the quarterback moves out of the pocket, and there is no good option for a forward pass, the ball may be legally thrown away to prevent a sack.

Finally there may not be three players touching the ball at one time.

Note also that until well into the 20th Century, rather than an official readying the ball for scrimmage, the side entitled to the snap had complete custody of the ball and could snap it from the required spot at any time ; for instance, a tackled ball carrier might feign injury, then suddenly snap the ball while recumbent, there being no stance requirement yet.

In Canada, from oral histories, there is evidence of a tradition of an ancient stick and ball game played among the Mi ' kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada.

While a forward pass may only be thrown once per down by the team on offense from within or behind the neutral zone, there are no restrictions on the use of lateral passes ; any player legally carrying the ball may throw a lateral pass from any position on the field at any time, any player may receive such a pass, and any number of lateral passes may be thrown on a single play.

Abel's uncle, Peder Mandrup Tuxen, lived at the naval base in Christianshavn, Copenhagen, and at a ball there Niels Abel met Christine Kemp, his future fiancée.

However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.

The shining of one side of the ball, as well as the use of sweat and saliva, even when tainted with mints that a player is sucking on, is not only legal in cricket but an integral part of the game as it is used to create such phenomena as swing bowling.

Bongco, after a legendary shining ball called “ trabongko ” that giant snakes amused themselves with on dark evenings.

The final boss character, Orochi, was first meant to be " a buck-naked Chris " fighting with a shining energy ball.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white.

The fear became generalized to include other white, furry objects, such as a rabbit, dog, and even a ball of cotton.

While salmon are usually hunted by an individual or a small group of individuals, herring are often caught using carousel feeding ; the killer whales force the herring into a tight ball by releasing bursts of bubbles or flashing their white undersides.

Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.

The logical form can be had by the bouncing of a ball ( for example, twenty bounces might communicate a white rook's being on the king's rook 1 square ).

The ball is made of a high-bouncing air-filled celluloid or similar plastics material, colored white or orange, with a matte finish.

For example, a white ball is easier to see on a green or blue table than it is on a gray table.

Test cricket is played in traditional white clothes and with a cricket ball | red ball.

A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar, signalled by the umpire raising a white flag.

Also, the ABA used a colorful red, white and blue ball, instead of the NBA's traditional orange ball.

If the ball goes over the crossbar, a point is scored and a white flag is raised by an umpire.

The ball is usually white, but there is no statutory colour, black being a common colour for Kyles Athletic and fluorescent balls now being available.

In the mid-1990s the ball was changed from a vintage style ball ( such as those used in the 1960s ) to the current ball with black and white panels, for copyright reasons.

The balls used in One Day Internationals are white and become discoloured very easily, especially on dusty or abrasive pitches, and thus the ball change is deemed necessary to ensure that the ball is easily visible. Vinay Duwadi See.

It appears as a bouncing, white ball of light floating about four to six feet off the ground occasionally making an appearance somewhere between West Columbia and Angleton.

Historically, white footballs have been used in football games played at night so that the ball can be seen more easily ; however, this practice is no longer commonplace, as artificial lighting conditions have improved to the point where it is no longer necessary.