Of related interest, Australian rules being tagged as "aerial ping pong" originated in the early 1900s simply as "ping pong" - it wasn't though derived from "kicking the ball back and forth" but from rugby quips belittling Aust rules as a soft/girlish football game so tame that it was capable of being played indoors in your front lounge room by women and children i.e. games such as ping-pong / table tennis (which was extremely popular in the late 1890s and early 1900s).