The History...
Folklore surrounding the history of tug and war as a sport suggest it goes all the way back to ancient Egyptian and Chinese times, when - often known as ‘hook pulling’, it was a royal pastime and considered to be played even by the sun and the moon, or the good and the bad, as their way of wrestling over sunlight and darkness. There has also been evidence found of the sport’s early existence in countries including India, Myanmar and New Guinea - in India going as far back as the twelfth century.
