Editing Stoolball (section)

===20th century revival===
A Sussex Stoolball League was established in 1903.<ref name="Locke 2011 203"/>  Initially played by women only, men joined in shortly afterwards.<ref name="Locke 2011 203"/>  Modern stoolball is centred on Sussex where the game was revived in the early 20th century by [[Major William Grantham]].<ref>{{harvnb|Locke|2011 |p=203}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Nauright|2012| p=194}}</ref>  Grantham wore a traditional Sussex [[Smock-frock|round frock]] and [[beaver hat]] to stoolball games.<ref name="SEng-Hist"/>  In 1917, [[County Cricket Ground, Hove|Sussex County Cricket Ground]] in Hove hosted a match between young men who had lost one arm in [[First World War]] action at a temporary hospital in Brighton's [[Royal Pavilion]], "damaged by wounds", and a team of older lawyers, "damaged by age".<ref name="SEng-Hist"/>  The soldiers won and were deemed to be 'heroes'.<ref name="SEng-Hist"/>  In 1919 a demonstration match was held at [[Lord's]] and the game was also played near the trenches of the battlefields of the First World War.<ref name="Collins 2005 252">{{harvnb|Collins|2005| p=252}}</ref><ref name="Locke 2011 203"/>

First played in 1923, the League Championship Challenge Cup is open to the winning teams of the five leagues of the Sussex County Stoolball Association - North, East, West, Mid and Central.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stoolball.org.uk/sussexchampionship/2014|title=Sussex County Stoolball Association League Championship, 2014 Season|access-date=10 April 2016}}</ref>  By the 1930s stoolball was being played in the Midlands and the north of England.<ref name="Locke 2011 203"/>  Since 1938 Sussex and Kent have competed annually for the Rose Bowl, which was presented to Sussex by Major William Grantham.  This is sometimes a team representing Sussex and sometimes one of Sussex's five leagues may represent the county against Kent.<ref name="SB-MC"/>  Grantham founded the Stoolball Association of Great Britain at Lord's in 1923.<ref name="Collins 2005 252"/>  By 1927 over 1,000 clubs were playing stoolball across England, however in 1942 the Stoolball Association of Great Britain ceased to function.   The National Stoolball Association was founded on 3 October 1979 at Clair Hall in [[Haywards Heath]] attended by 23 people from nine different leagues.  On the advice of the Sports Council the governing body was renamed Stoolball England in 2010.<ref name="SEng-Hist"/>

In the early 20th century stoolball was also played outside England, including in [[France]], [[Japan]] and [[Ceylon]] (now Sri Lanka).<ref name="SEng-MSR-G">{{cite web|url=https://www.stoolball.org.uk/history/story/stoolball-in-sussex-by-russell-goggs/|title=Stoolball in Sussex, by M S Russell-Goggs|first=M.S.|last=Russell=Goggs|access-date=30 October 2018}}</ref>