Foosball History of when and where foosball all started. Also information on foosball table manufacturers that were made years ago, and are still currently running.

If your doing a History assignment, or just want to know more about the history of foosball of how and when it all started, this is the place.

Also Foosball Manufacturers in the 1950's and up, when foosball all started.

Below you will find an intro to both of these pages. For more, click the links to the right.

Where did Foosball Start?

From a primitive wooden box, some wooden dowels and a lot of imagination, the European game has developed into a professional piece of amusement equipment today, taking its place alongside the flipper.....

The original game we know as table soccer probably originated in Germany during the late 20's. early 30's. We say "probably" because some feel the French were working with such games at the same time. But the game did flower in Germany and became a location staple there years before it made its first timid appearance in the United States...
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Table Manufacturers

EBSCO Amusements, a division of EBSCO Industries Inc.. entered the table soccer field in 1965. Initially, EBSCO imported two German made tables. The Deutcher Meister and the Leonhart. However, a few years later, the firm began manufacturing the Vulcan Fussball Table at its Red Bank...

Cabinet-game veterans at the Irving Kaye Sales Corp entered the soccer table arena in 1969 with their Super Soccer table The firm. which has been a prominent manufacturer of pool tables since the 50s. lent its carpentry/amusement skills to the new game concept and came out with a piece that offered a number of exclusives at that time, including a slide-out playfield for maintenance ease and a one-piece cabinet...
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