Team sport Team sport A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective. A team sport is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win. Examples are basketball, volleyball, rugby, water polo, handball, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, and the various forms of football and hockey. Team sports are practiced between opposing teams, where the players interact directly and simultaneously between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar object in accordance with a set of rules, in order
Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics the Olympic Games. To an outsider, the game features elements of association football, gaelic football, and rugby. It is played on a grass surface with an oval ball, in four 20-minute quarters. Also, at the time of the Olympic Games, a team consisted of eighteen players and two reserve players (each of whom could substitute for a player on the field, with the substituted player being unable to resume their place on the field under any circumstances). Like today, the goals consisted of an inner and outer pair of posts, where the scoring was six points for a goal (between