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 The balls used to be pigs' bladders, inflated orally. After Richard Lindon's wife died from a disease which she caught by blowing into a pig's bladder, he invented the leather ball inflated using a pump. He produced spherical and ellipsoidal balls for use in different variations of the game. Those designs eventually became soccer balls and rugby balls. UTC Time: 11:41, Friday 18 September 2015 Local Time: 12:41, Friday 18 September 2015 Estimate of longitude: 1° 15' 46.98" W = -1.263050° Estimate of latitude: 52° 22' 14.81" N = 52.370780° Possible error on position estimate: 100 metres | |