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Bando is a team sport – related to field hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy – which was first recorded in Wales in the eighteenth century.[1]
A bando game is played on a large level field between teams of up to thirty players each of them equipped with a bando: a curve-ended stick resembling that used in field hockey.[1] Although no formal rules are known, the objective of the game was to strike a ball between two marks which served as goals at either end of the pitch.[1] Popular in Glamorgan in the nineteenth century, the sport all but vanished by the end of the century. Now a minority sport, the game is still played in parts of Wales (are there any references to this? I'm not aware of any except for a spoof article here: http://www.thejudge.me.uk/TVR/TVR_gal_ATC_TC_02.htm) where it has become an Easter tradition.
- ^ a b c Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.