Heiner GillmeisterHeiner Gillmeister is a retired Chaucerian and linguistics scholar at the University of Bonn and is a world authority on the history of ball games. He taught sports history at the German Sports University, Cologne, and his theory that Association Fooball has its roots in Renaissance Italy and that golf and even cricket originated on the European continent created an international stir. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Oxford English Dictionary and to leading German newspapers such as Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Read More Read Less