Rubber Match Origin

The action of each triggers the initiation of the next eventually resulting in achieving a stated goal.

Rubber match origin.

In a three game series tied at one game a piece the third match is the rubber match. Rubber definition a highly elastic solid substance light cream or dark amber in color polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants especially hevea and ficus species. The sporting term rubber match refers to the final and deciding game in any series and traces its origins back to the 16th century english game of lawn bowling. A rube goldberg machine named after american cartoonist rube goldberg is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way usually these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices.

Rubber match posted by bruce kahl on september 11 2003. I post the following interesting one from the world of lawn bowling. A rubber match or rubber game is a match where the winner of that match wins the series. The sporting term rubber match refers to the final and deciding game in any series and traces its origins back to the 16th century english game of lawn bowling.

Somewhat similar to bocce ball the object of lawn bowling is to roll wooden balls across a flat field toward a smaller white ball so they stop as close as possible to the smaller. Rubber match plural rubber matches a sporting event at the end of a series in which the opponents are tied in terms of events won and lost. Posted by henry on september 11 2003. I guess that on the origin of the usage of the term rubber in sports there are only speculations available.