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Former Steamboat resident Sherman Poppen, grandfather of snowboarding, dies at age 89 | SteamboatToday.com
ASME UET Lahore - Narowal Campus - - Mechanical Facts - Modern snowboarding began in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening
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One in a million': Sherman Poppen, inventor of the Snurfer, remembered as a 'driving force' in Muskegon who changed thousands of students' lives - Community Foundation Muskegon County
![Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame - History of the Snurfer, Snurfing and the birth of the sport of Snowboarding - 1966 Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame - History of the Snurfer, Snurfing and the birth of the sport of Snowboarding - 1966](http://www.mashf.com/Sherm%20and%20his%20prototypes.jpg)