Cornhole, a History

I Googled Cornhole, a popular game in these parts and I discovered this site – it’s not drop dead hilarious but it has a couple of gems.  If nothing else, you’ll waste a good 10 minutes.

Anyways, back to Cornhole.  From Wikipedia:

The true history of the game is mostly unknown,^[5] though stories abound. One story claims that the game was first played during the 14th century in Germany, then rediscovered in Kentucky within the last century.^[5] Despite debate about whether the game was actually created in the Kentucky farmland, Champaign, IL or the West Side of Cincinnati,^[6] some sources credit the invention to western Cincinnati,^[7] but by whom or when is unknown. Popularity of the game began to increase in the late 1990's in Cincinnati area universities, particularly Miami University where cornhole became a mainstay at parties and as a casual drinking game. Helped along by the advent of commercial cornhole bags and boards under the trademark Baggo, cornhole is now a popular game in and around the Midwest and Rust Belt states.

The key score of this research project is the new terminology I learned while wikipedia-ing Cornhole.  While the lexicon of throwing beanie bags at a wooden box included such lame ones as “cornfusion” (when players can’t agree on the scoring), my personal favorites are “dirty bag” (a bag that it is hanging off the board touching the ground) and the various fractions of “Galbraith” (all four bags in the hole).  The complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole

By the way, the governing body of Cornhole is the American Cornhole Association of course.  This man is their President.