Who invented point spread?

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Wikipedia says:

Spread betting was invented by Charles K. McNeil, a mathematics teacher from Connecticut who became a bookmaker in Chicago in the 1940s.

Does anyone agree or disagree?
 

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i was suprised when u told me this....i just assumed the late 20's or early 30's
 

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Naw back then you just bet on who would win. And the early point spreads had a gap, like it might be Redskins +5.5 Bears -7.5 and if the Bears won by 6 or 7 the book collected on both bets.
 

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From what I've always read/heard, is that the point spread was invented in Minnesota. I think it must have been in the early-mid fifties because I remember football lines being put out like baseball lines. My uncle was a big bookie in Newark, NJ at the time and that's the way I remember it.
 

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they've been betting point spreads in cricket going back to the 1500's

any game that can be won by a margin of points has been bet on using a point spread since the invention of that game.

it's like asking: who invented gambling?
 

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Brendan Lang ..................Oh wait he invent losing on the point spread .........
 

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