Sport in Wales is a team sport – related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy – which was first recorded in Wales in the eighteenth century. The game is played on a large level field between teams of up to thirty players each of them equipped with a "bando": a curve-ended stick resembling that used in field hockey. Although no formal rules are known, the objective of the game was to strike a ball between two marks which served as goals at either end of the pitch. Popular in Glamorgan in the nineteenth century, the sport all but vanished by the end of
Handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics in those three games. Each country was allowed to enter a team of 22 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total of 107"(*)" field handball players from 6 nations competed at the Berlin Games: Not all reserve players are known. Handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics Field handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport at the Olympics. It was contested by six teams. Games were played outdoors with 11 players on each side. The six teams were split into two groups of three. Each team played each other within each group.