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Does anyone have a clue of what those look like on the DePaul bowling score side of things? The little paper that tells bowlers how many points a strike is worth in 10-pin It can be a bit confusing to read the score sheets in some older ones, if you had not seen one before. But don’t worry! I'll break down how to read these score sheets so you can understand the game even better!

That girlish bowling score sheet contains ten frames just like the sheets we use today. For every frame, the bowler rolls two balls per each turn to knock down as many pins possible. So the score in these two frames is how many pins were knocked down on both rolls. When a bowler knocks all ten pins with the initial roll, that is referred to as a strike. This means that the frame will be considered as 10 points plus a number of pins knocked down in your two next rolls. That is why you may see a frame with a strike that gives zero score! Sounds a bit difficult but You will get used to it as you grow.

A Look at the Evolution of Bowling Score Sheets

Score sheets started out relatively basic. All they did was have spots for player names, and number of pins knocked down, % total score. Those were pretty basic of course but as the game began to take off in America during the 19th century so did ones ability to keep score. They provided slots to write the score for each frame, and whether it was open, strike, or spare. As time passed, the official score sheets also indicated whether a bowler had a "turkey" (three strikes in consecutive frames) or four-bagger; if you can tell what that means I'll buy your sportswriter-drinks.

Nowadays, most bowlers tend to use computerized and electronic scoring systems instead of the paper score sheets. These systems will keep score for you and automatically show a bowler gets strikes OR spares can do fun animations within certain halls/houses. Great technical evolution, removing manual aspect of addition previously done by hand/pen(cil). Nonetheless, true bowlers still cherish their paper score sheets — holding on to the traditions of a bygone era. A quarter for two games is a sort of entertaining throwback to the ways bowling used to be played.

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