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A ball has the shape known in mathematics as a sphere. (Unless it's an American football.)
An American football, a Rugby football and an Aussie rules ball are all prolate spheroids (pointed ovals). A soccer ball is a sphere.
An American football, a rugby football and an Aussie rules ball are all prolate spheroids (pointed ovals). A soccer ball is a sphere.
Rugby/American Football - Prolate Spheroid Association Football - Sphere Old style World Cup ball - Truncated Icosahedron
A cylinder is shaped like the empty inner cardboard of a toilet roll, whilst a sphere is shaped like a football [soccer, not American fb].
Sphere
So that they roll smoothly. Notice that the balls for American football are not spheres, they bounce unpredictably when they hit theground.
No Cooky Isnt American
All balls are not spheres b/c not all balls have complete circles, a example to this is a football...
Sphere.
it is an oval
yes it isnt american............idiot!