Editing Beer pong (section)

==Origin and name==
[[File:Throw Pong at Bucknell University.png|thumb|Members of [[Delta Upsilon]] playing Throw Pong at [[Bucknell University]] during the House Party weekend of 1980<ref name="The Bucknellian"/>]]

The game was originally believed to have evolved from the original [[Beer pong (paddles)|beer pong played with paddles]]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D12FB3455127B93C1AB178FD85F468785F9 | work=The New York Times | title=About Beer-Pong | date=1972-04-23 | access-date=2010-04-26 | first=Ted | last=Lippman }}</ref> which is generally regarded to have had its origins within the fraternities of [[Dartmouth College]] in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, where it has since become part of the social culture of the campus. The original version resembled an actual [[ping pong]] game with a net and one or more cups of beer on each side of the table.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2004/11/on-language-princeton-style-the-history-of-beirut|title=On language, Princeton style: The history of 'Beirut'|last=Berner|first=Laura|year=2004|work=Daily Princetonian|access-date=2007-07-27}}</ref> Eventually, a version without [[Table tennis racket|paddles]] was invented and the names ''Beer Pong'' and ''Beirut'' were adopted in some areas of the United States sometime in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/argus/archives/feb212003/dateyear/w5.html |title=Student educates community on history of Beirut – the game |publisher=Wesleyan.edu |access-date=2010-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060919095836/http://www.wesleyan.edu/argus/archives/feb212003/dateyear/w5.html |archive-date=2006-09-19 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bcheights.com/2.6178/bc-reveres-8220-ancient-8221-tradition-of-beirut-1.925582 |title=" + artTitle.replace("-","") + " - " + "The Heights" + " - " + "Features" + " |publisher=Bcheights.com |access-date=2010-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817094217/http://www.bcheights.com/2.6178/bc-reveres-8220-ancient-8221-tradition-of-beirut-1.925582 |archive-date=2010-08-17 }}</ref> In some places, ''Beer Pong'' refers to the version of the game with paddles, and ''Beirut'' to the version without.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Warshaw |first1=Brette |title=What's the Difference Between Beer Pong and Beirut? |url=https://www.eater.com/2019/7/31/20747064/whats-the-difference-beer-pong-beirut |website=Eater |access-date=3 March 2021 |language=en |date=31 July 2019}}</ref>

[[Bucknell University]]'s student-run newspaper, ''The Bucknellian'', claims [[Delta Upsilon]] fraternity members at Bucknell created "Throw Pong", a game very similar to beer pong, during the 1970s,<ref name="The Bucknellian">{{cite news|title=Bucknell celebrates its part in the invention of Beer Pong|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2ydPXnP9gA0NTRhMTVkMTctMjhlMS00YzZlLTgyYmEtMjU4Yzk1YjcxNjlk&hl=en_US|access-date=12 September 2011|newspaper=The Bucknellian|date=9 September 2011|author=Michelle Joline}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bucknellian.net/10510/arts-campus-life/beer-pong-article/|title = Bucknell celebrates its part in the invention of beer pong|date = 8 September 2011}}</ref> and that "Throw Pong" was then brought to [[Lehigh University]] by fraternity brothers who visited Bucknell and this led to the creation of the version of beer pong that is played today.<ref name="The Bucknellian" />

The origin of the name "Beirut" is disputed. A 2004 op-ed article in ''[[The Daily Princetonian]]'', the student newspaper at [[Princeton University]], suggested that the name was possibly coined at Bucknell or Lehigh University around the time of the [[Lebanese Civil War]]. [[Beirut]], the capital of [[Lebanon]], was the scene of much fighting during the war, particularly [[Mortar (weapon)|mortar]] fire.<ref name="DailyPrincetonian">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2004/11/on-language-princeton-style-the-history-of-beirut|title=On language, Princeton style: The history of 'Beirut'|last=Berner|first=Laura|year=2004|work=[[The Daily Princetonian]] |access-date=2007-07-27}}</ref>