Who REALLY Invented Hockey?
Manuela Fisher
2025-04-23 02:28:44
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Ice hockey’s roots stretch back centuries to premodern British stick and ball games and indigenous lacrosse. Montreal in the 1880s was the center of the modernizing sport. It began among anglophone middle classes and quickly became popular. The first formalized rules were taking shape in the period when the Stanleys saw their first game.
Alexie Effertz
2025-04-15 19:21:09
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Canada's national pride has been dealt a serious blow after Britain laid to inventing ice hockey - claiming Charles Darwin was one of the sport's first ever participants. A recently-discovered letter sent by the famous naturalist in 1853 asks his young son if he has a good pond at school, adding: 'I used to be very fond of playing at Hocky [sic] on the ice in skates'. If that is the case, ice hockey would have been played in Britain at least 50 years earlier than the first officially recognised match in Canada, where is it now a national sport and general obsession. The entry reads: 'On Saturday last, an amusing scene took place on a splendid sheet of ice which covered Croxby Pond. After going through several quadrilles, reels and playing a warmly contested game at hockey, the party partook of a cold collation, and again stepping into their sledges, glided swiftly away.' Canada took the game, sped it up and made it better. Canada really made the game its own and hockey is truly a Canadian game now.
Elissa Daugherty
2025-04-10 22:47:35
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Most people consider its rightful birthplace to be in Canada, where hockey is the country’s national sport. Some say that the Irish and French played a version back in the 1700s, but others say that Canadians invented it in the mid-1800s. The first organised indoor hockey game was played March 3, 1875, at Montreal’s Victoria Skating Rink, between two teams of nine players each, many of whom were McGill University students.
Jane Pacocha
2025-04-05 03:35:58
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The sport’s origins can be traced back to various forms of stick and ball games played in Europe for centuries. However, it’s understood it was in England that the modern version of hockey began to develop. The first recorded game in the UK took place in 1861 at Blackheath in southeast London. In 1875, the Hockey Association was formed in England, becoming the world’s first governing body for the sport.
Sadye Fay
2025-03-23 13:56:36
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Darwin's letter was sent to his then 13-year-old son William, who was boarding at Shrewsbury School at the time, on March 1, 1853. The evolutionary theorist had himself attended the school as a boarder between 1818 and 1825 himself, and it is thought his reference to enjoying "hockey on the ice" relates to this time. If that is the case, ice hockey would have been played in Britain at least 50 years earlier than the first officially recognised match in Canada, where is it now a national sport and general obsession.
Jean-Patrice Martel, a member of the Society for International Hockey Research, poured fuel of the fire by claiming the early 1820s was around the time that a game recognisable as ice hockey started. The trio also found an entry in the Lincolnshire Chronicle dated February 16, 1838 that backs up claims the ice hockey was being played in Britain in the first half of the 19th century. The entry reads: "On Saturday last, an amusing scene took place on a splendid sheet of ice which covered Croxby Pond."
Canada took the game, sped it up and made it better. Canada really made the game its own and hockey is truly a Canadian game now.
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