Rubber Match Origin

Rubber match posted by bruce kahl on september 11 2003.

Rubber match origin.

The action of each triggers the initiation of the next eventually resulting in achieving a stated goal. 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. 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. I post the following interesting one from the world of lawn bowling.

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 rubber match or rubber game is a match where the winner of that match wins the series. The red sox having lost the opener and won the second game lost the rubber match against the twins. 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.

Posted by henry on september 11 2003. 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. I guess that on the origin of the usage of the term rubber in sports there are only speculations available. In sports where 2 wins out of 3 games wins the match and after 2 games where each team has won one match the third and decisive game is referred to as the rubber match.