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Slam pong
Slam pong is a form of beer pong. Unlike many other variants of beer pong, slam pong is a fast-moving game that retains some of the rules of table tennis but borrows inspiration from the rules and game play of volleyball. The name ''slam pong'' is derived from ''beer pong'', which is in turn was derived from ''Ping Pong'', a trademarked name for a brand of table tennis merchandise. The "slam" in slam pong refers to the action of slamming a table tennis ball with a paddle into a plastic cup of beer placed on the table, the fundamental way of scoring points in the game.
==History==
Beer Pong with paddles can trace its origin to the mid-1950s, when fraternity houses at Dartmouth College first began to experiment with drinking games that included the placement of a newly-available plastic cup full of beer on a table tennis table during a game. An Alpha Phi Delta fraternity alumnus, David Thielscher, class of 1954, recalled in an interview for ''The Dartmouth'' newspaper that beer pong was played when he was an undergraduate.〔Jacob, Jess (1997). ("More than a game: Pong goes way back" ). ''The Dartmouth''. Oct. 16, 1997.〕 The objective was to try to hit the ball with a paddle into the cups. The sport seems to have been played in a rather informal manner through the latter half of the 1950s and the 1960s and spread to a limited number of other college campuses in the northeastern United States.〔Garfinkel, Jennifer (2005). ("Dartmouth First to Promulgate Pong" ). ''The Dartmouth''. Nov. 16, 2005.〕
Beer pong became recognized as an intramural sport at Dartmouth College in the 1970s, with individuals and teams most often representing fraternities. Rules of the game were standardized, and competitions were held at the fraternity houses. The game was played in a manner very similar to table tennis, with one beer cup placed on the table for each player. Beer pong at Dartmouth was the only college-sponsored drinking competition in the country, until 1977 when the college decided to discontinue its sponsorship of the games.〔Rathod, Anoop (2005). ("Without a Paddle" ). ''The Dartmouth Independent'', Sep. 19, 2005.〕 Official derecognition would not reduce the level of beer pong activity at Dartmouth or elsewhere, but would lead to many new variations on the game.
Slam pong was one of the forms of the game that evolved from the traditional beer pong of the late 1970s. Slam pong retained the use of just one beer cup per player, with two players per team, but added the twist that a legal volley required the ball to strike the paddles of both players on a team before striking the table or beer cups. One of the earliest documented record of slam pong comes from Chris Robinson, Dartmouth College class of 1986, who recalled playing slam pong when he was an undergraduate.〔 An article in the March, 1986 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine describes slam pong being played by the brothers of Psi Upsilon at Dartmouth.〔Carroll, E. Jean (1986). ("Young Men, Old Money" ). ''Playboy'', March, 1986.〕 By the early 1990s, slam pong was played in nearly half of all Dartmouth College Greek organizations, and had been introduced to other colleges including Bowdoin College, Bucknell University, Cornell University, Lehigh University, Princeton University, and Williams College, but by the middle of the decade was beginning to decline in popularity.〔 By the early 2000s, slam pong had been almost totally eclipsed by other variations of beer pong, especially Beirut, one of the first variations of beer pong to be widely played across the country. At Dartmouth, lob became the standard variation of beer pong played by undergraduates.
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