Did You Ever Think To Play With Animal Bladders?

A surprising question............... but it is a reality, in Europe, early footballs were made out of animal bladder especially, inflated pig’s bladders. Later, leather covering were introduced to keep their shape.

 In 1851, Richard Lindon and William Gilbert, both shoemakers, exhibited both round and oval-shaped balls at the Great Exhibition in London. 

Charles Goodyear in 1855 exhibited a spherical football, with an exterior of vulcanized rubber panels in an Exhibition at the Paris.   Today’s football mostly made up of leather or plastic and filled with air.