You also can't hit the ball off the ceiling in squash. Squash is more a thinking person's game. Invented in England around 1830, squash hit the United States in 1882, at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. Legend says the frigid New Hampshire weather caused the soft ball used in Europe not to bounce. American and international squash became two different games. Hardball is quicker, with less time to think.
International squash has longer rallies and more running.
Because the American game was so different, foreigners rarely played at U.S. schools. But then, in 1994, American universities adapted to the worldwide and professional circuit standard by switching to international rules, with the wider court and softer ball. It was a U.N. convention on the courts. Greenwich, Newport, Phillips Academy, the Winsor School. The only foreign player on either team came from Canada.