Year
1997
3 dated items in the record for 1997, and 14 championship result rows.
Dated items
- 1997: 'Handball Playing Rules', an Irish Handball Council publication from Croke Park cited once in a 2002 bibliography (Handball Playing Rules (1997)). Source: Internet Archive, full-text search for "hand ball" AND "rules" AND "1886" (seen 28 October 2026)
- 1997: GAA wallball open Irish nationals from 1997 (Wallball Open Irish Nationals): the one-wall game arrives in the Irish record. Source: GAA Handball Ireland, wallball nationals roll of honour (seen 28 October 2026)
- 1997: The 47th USHA Four-Wall Nationals are held at the Michigan Athletic Club in 1997, where the pro champions had also won in 1992 Source: US Handball Association, "Four-Wall National Championships" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)