The Billiards and Snooker Control Council (B&SCC) (formerly called the Billiards Association and Control Council (BA&CC)) was the governing body of the...
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the Billiards Association and Control Council (later the Billiards and Snooker Control Council), formed in 1919 by an amalgamation of the Billiards Association...
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World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards. It is headquartered...
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Amateur Billiards Championship. The associations were dissatisfied that the Billiards and Snooker Control Council was controlling both the UK and international...
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Billiard table (redirect from Pocket (billiards))
two pieces of slate, while carom, English billiards and tournament-size pool tables use three. Full-size snooker tables require five. The gap between slates...
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a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). In its various forms, and usually as a single competition, the title...
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maintained by the sport's governing body, World Billiards, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. A player's ranking is based...
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Joe Davis (redirect from The Sultan of Snooker)
of the World Snooker Championship by persuading the Billiards Association and Control Council to recognise an official professional snooker championship...
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Snooker". Billiards and Snooker. the Billiards Association and Control Council. January 1964. p. 13. Everton, Clive (1981). Guinness Book of Snooker....
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Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long...
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the game of English billiards. Dating to some form to 1951, the event has been sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation since 1973...
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1972 from the amalgamation of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council's Billiards and Snooker and his own World Snooker. Everton was editor until he retired...
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Frank Callan (category English snooker players)
of snooker, and started coaching in the 1970s. He disagreed with the prescriptive techniques of Joe Davis and Billiards and Snooker Control Council chief...
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Junior Snooker Championship was organised by the Billiards and Snooker Control Council (known as the Billiards Association and Control Council until 1971)...
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Women's Billiards Association (WBA), founded in 1931 and based in London, United Kingdom, was the governing body for women's English billiards and snooker, and...
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professional snooker and billiards player. He contested eight consecutive world championship finals against Fred Davis from 1947 to 1954, and won the title...
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World Billiards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA). It includes former...
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Encyclopedia of Billiards. New York: The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-55821-797-3. The Billiards and Snooker Control Council Handbook & Rules. London: Billiards Association...
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Clive Everton (category English players of English billiards)
and professional snooker and English billiards player. He founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published (as World Snooker) in 1971, and continued...
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Leslie Driffield (category English players of English billiards)
English billiards. He won the World Amateur Billiards Championship title twice, in 1952 and 1967; and the Billiards and Snooker Control Council version...
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Camkin. They persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926–27...
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snooker and English billiards. He was an eight-time World Snooker Championship winner from 1948 to 1956, and a two-time winner of the World Billiards...
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English snooker and billiards player. She won the Women's Professional Snooker Championship each year from its inception in 1934 to 1940, and again when...
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rules of English billiards, snooker volunteer snooker and snooker plus. Billiards Association and Control Council. 1967. p. 95. "Billiards – Women's Professional...
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Birmingham: Billiards and Snooker Control Council. January 1967. p. 9. "Davis in the lead". Billiards and Snooker. Birmingham: Billiards and Snooker Control Council...
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Guinness Snooker – The Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 125. ISBN 0851124488. The Billiards and Snooker Control Council Handbook and Rules. London:...
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Vera Selby (category English players of English billiards)
an English snooker and billiards player who won multiple women's world titles in both sports. She won the inaugural World Women's Snooker Championship...
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dispute between the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) and the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC). The PBPA established an...
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English billiards and snooker. She won the World Ladies' Amateur Billiards Championship, now recognised as editions of the World Women's Billiards Championship...
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Rex Williams (redirect from Rex Williams (billiards player))
English retired professional billiards and snooker player. He was the second player to make an official maximum break in snooker, achieving this in an exhibition...
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