Games using tangible projectile – Playing field or court game; game element or accessory... – Having at least two different types of game elements used in...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-15
2001-03-13
Chapman, Jeanette (Department: 3711)
Games using tangible projectile
Playing field or court game; game element or accessory...
Having at least two different types of game elements used in...
C473S410000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06200234
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The subject invention relates to a portable soccer golf game which is played by combining some of the aspects of soccer and golf.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
By way of background, the game of soccer is played between two teams of eleven players on a rectangular outlined field with opposing goals, in which, a ball may be advanced by the opposing players by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body, except the arms and hands, toward the opposing team's goal. The game of golf is played by individual players, in which, golf clubs are used to hit a small golf ball into a number of holes, usually nine or eighteen, in succession. The holes are situated at various distances over a course having natural and artificial obstacles with the object of the game being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
Various other games have been developed using similar elements and rules of the games of soccer and/or golf. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 2,157,023 to Shannon, issued May 2, 1939, discloses the method of kicking a ball from a starting location through a plurality of hazards and wickets to a goal location. The ball must be kicked along a predetermined path around a course and advanced through each of the hazards and wickets between the starting location and the goal location. Additionally, U.S. Pat. No. 2,220,291 to Savoy, issued Nov. 5, 1940, discloses an attachment for a shoe to receive a striker head for kicking a golf ball around a golf course in accordance with the rules of golf, but without the use of conventional golf clubs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A method of playing a soccer golf game comprises the steps of arranging a course layout comprising a plurality of independent and successive stations wherein each station includes a designated starting location spaced a predetermined distance from a designated goal location defined by a goal. A fixed number of players are selected to participate in the game and a resilient ball is associated with each of the players at one of the designated starting locations. One of the players is selected to initiate the game by kicking the player associated ball from the designated starting location along any desired path toward the associated designated goal location with the intent to kick the ball into the goal. The players repeat the kicking of the ball until the ball is received in the goal wherein the goal comprises a main frame supporting a net and a support frame for supporting the goal at the goal location. The number of kicks required by each of the players to advance the associated ball into the goal is counted and recorded by the players on a scorecard. Finally, the game continues by the player moving to the designated starting location of the next successive station until all stations have been played.
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Bliss McGlynn P.C.
Chambers M.
Chapman Jeanette
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