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The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States.It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier of all tenpin bowling standards, rules, and regulations from 1895 onwards; the Women's International Bowling Congress—founded in 1916, as the female bowlers' counterpart to ...
Maurice Kilgore was an American bowler, notable for being the first African American bowler to compete in a nationally televised tournament. He was also a member of the first team of African American bowlers to play in an American Bowling Congress tournament, a milestone that has been credited with breaking the color barrier in bowling.
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The USBC Masters is a championship ten-pin bowling event conducted by the United States Bowling Congress. The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) began recognizing it as a title event in 1998, and it was designated one of the four majors in 2000. A PBA rule change in 2008 retroactively awarded a PBA title (and a major) to any Masters winners ...
November 1904 The American Sports Publishing Co issued Inter-Collegiate Cross Country Association of Amateur Athletes of America: Constitution and Bylaws. The book include results, rules, and campuses in the association. The back of the book includes an abbreviated list of the Spalding Athletic Library books available early 1905. [129]
The Zanesville United States Bowling Congress recently donated $10,000 to Genesis HealthCare System for its breast cancer fund. Money was raised in February from the annual Strike Out Breast ...
Varipapa was inducted into the American Bowling Congress (now United States Bowling Congress) Hall of Fame in 1957. [29] He is also a member of the New York City Bowling Association (1951), Eastern Long Island Bowling Association (1965), National Italian-American Sports (1980), New York State Bowling Association (1982), Long Island Sports (1984 ...
William V. Thompson (April 25, 1865 – September 30, 1938) was an American professional and champion tenpin bowler. He was the proprietor of Plaza Bowling Alley in the Chicago Plaza Hotel, the first official regulation ten-pin bowling alley.