英语词汇pigskin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pigskin
词源	pigskin. Though animal bladders were once kicked around in various games of football, pigskin was never used to make a football. Nevertheless, pigskin has been a word for a football since at least 1894, when the term was used by Amos Stagg’s University of Chicago Maroons, the great football team of that era. Footballs are made of a rubber bladder covered with a cas- ing of leather.
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