Thursday, January 31, 2013

  Largest Cornhole Board: Ephraim Ford breaks Guinness world record

SOCORRO, N.M., USA -- NRAO engineer and New Mexico Tech graduate Ephraim Ford and his crew built a cornhole board game 10 times larger than the standard cornhole board size and played a game of cornhole on it,
setting the new world record for the Largest Cornhole Board, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/. largest cornhole board world record set by Ephraim Ford

  Photo: New Mexico Tech graduate Ephraim Ford, an engineering manager at NRAO, and a crew built the world's largest cornhole board. ( enlarge photo )

Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the Largest Cornhole Board set by Ephraim Ford.

 The Guinness world record for the longest marathon playing cornhole is 24 hr 31 min 34 sec which was set by the teams Arctic Zone and Doober (both USA) in Warrenville, Illinois, USA.

  What's cornhole? It's a popular game in the Midwest in which players toss beanbags at a 2-foot by 4-foot board and try to get the beanbag into the hole from 24 to 27 feet away.

  A native of Las Cruces and a graduate of New Mexico State University and New Mexico Tech, Ford learned the game after earning his bachelor's in Industrial Engineering and moving from Las Cruces to Iowa, where cornhole is a popular game at backyard gatherings and tailgate parties.

  Ford and his partners in the project, Henry Newton, Brad Winton and Mike Timmons, ended up spending five hours building the board, and then, after playing with it for several hours, spent another two hours taking it down.

 "I've built a few cornhole sets," he said. "When I came back to New Mexico, I spread the word and got some friends to play it."

  Ford is married to Dr. Julie Ford, Associate Professor of Technical Communications at Tech. "He is the kind of guy who – when he says he'll do something – as ridiculous as it sounds – he'll make it happen," she said.

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