Water Polo

Water Polo

They say the historians of the sport water polo began as a sort of imitation of rugby, but with the added complication that was practiced in two teams each defending a river bank, which had to be crossed with a rubber ball under the arm in order to reach the opponent's field and place it in a small raft of low edge, equivalent to score against. It will be in 1870 in England, when they begin to play the first games of this "football pool", which then became available in ponds and enclosures, applying a brief regulations developed by the partners in the London Swimming Club.

One of the first written references to this sport lies in the pages of the London daily Times, in its issue of July 21, 1870. In it, along with other news and more substantial are just a short note of three lines that say: "In yesterday afternoon in the pool of the West-End, two teams of seven men each, went down to the water to be measured in Foot-Ball game water.