History of Hockey Hockey is a very interesting sport but it wasn’t always called hockey it was once called Ball and stick it is almost as old as civilization itself. Its earliest origins may be from Persia, as civilization spread, so did the games. As the world went north, ball and stick moved onto ice. There were paintings in the Netherlands in the 1600s showed that the Dutch played a version of golf on the ice. The amazing team that was born in Scotland’s Edinburgh Skating Club formed in 1642 they are considered the oldest club in the world Ball-and-stick games were as old as civilization itself. Its earliest origins may be that Persia and China might be where the game came from, while archaeological evidence shows an early ball-and-stick …show more content…
Creighton solved the problem creating a flat circular piece of wood, this was the first hockey puck. After practicing for about a month Creighton decided there was something that needed to be changed to enter a public exhibition of the sport on March 3, 1875. While some praised the new sport, others decried the violence in the game and did not enjoy watching the game. Hockey took the country by storm as hockey teams raised and never went back down the violence of the sport made is 2x as entertaining everything from people getting knocked out from black eyes all that made the hockey a lot more money, both at universities and at amateur athletic clubs. In the 1800s a young man signed The first hockey league’s formed in the 1880s it was a great organization called the Dallas stars, that was the best hockey team to be invented in the past decade it had excellent players on the team I believe there whole starting lineup was all starts but that was not a thing back then so they were just considered the best in the game at the moment it was the first national hockey organization. In 1893, the dominion challenge trophy it was the name of the cup it would never become …show more content…
At their first attempt of capturing the cup the Winnipeg team defeated their counterparts from Montreal. The first team the Cup winners didn’t come from Montreal, and the reports of the victory came down in hockey’s first play-by-play, done by telegraph. Montreal soon became the hockey capital of the world. The team of Halifax had come west with the practice of putting fishing nets on the back of the metal posts that served as goals. These were the first goal nets ever born. Hockey’s popularity let to serious money making for the owners, the Stanley Cup is basically a huge financial success, getting the attention of large crowds who paid good money to watch the games. Also the sport led to major gambling and under the table deals that were made for some serious money however all the money that was being made almost never went to any of the players, That all changed in when great man named Jack Gibson, was born in Ontario in 1880 and a hockey star there, Gibson’s team was given a new arena to play and practice in by a local business man James Dee he was a great man he made a lot of money but it didn’t come easy he grew up poor and his dad had a farm that he worked on but he decided that he didn’t want to work on a farm for the rest of his life so entered all his money on the stock market and it paid big
... milestone game in 1980, hockey in the United States has grown significantly at the professional and amateur levels. (USA Hockey, N.d.)
Fortunately for the NHL, they had/ have the Chicago Blackhawks, the Franchise to bring hockey back. The Chicago Blackhawks started the 2012-2013 series with a 24 point streak, meaning that they went 24 games with at least 1 point gained in each game. As many people don’t pay attention until the season has hit 20 or so games, the Hawks, had come to break the lockout of that particular attention span causing more attention towards not only the NHL , but for the Blackhawks themselves. As fans joined the progressing bandwagon, the NHL was gratefully coming out of the “drought” with numourus sponsorships with companies, and gaining profit from their
The most memorable moment in hockey history came thirty-four years ago with the 1980 Miracle on Ice. The Americans defeating the dominant Soviet team at the Olympics was not only an important triumph for USA Hockey, but for the entire nation. Contrary to popular belief, the underdog win was not only the result of a miracle; it was also the result of a hard-working team led by Coach Herb Brooks. With increasingly negative views on the position of the United States in the Cold War, the Miracle on Ice and the gold medal win lifted the spirits of the nation and brought hockey into the American spotlight.
The sport of hockey has a long proud history of being one of the best sports in the
Thomas Raddall, a Canadian historical analyst, once said, “When the soldiers were transferred to military posts along the Saint Lawrence and Great Lakes, they took the game with them; and for some time afterwards continued to send to Dartmouth Indians for the necessary sticks.” This quote goes to show that the game’s reputation took off, even during undesirable times such as during a war. Up to this point in time, the sport was primarily played by masculine males and not women. Skip ahead 75 years from the birth of the sport, in 1875 James Creighton, a native Canadian, devised the modern rules of the game. He strategically thought of all possibilities the game could ensue, and devised a set of rules in Montreal. A group of nine players, including Creighton, tried out his guidelines at the Victoria Skating Rink located at McGill University. They all agreed upon the fairness and rationality of the principles he set forth for the game. Instead of using a ball like they formerly did, they switched the ball out for a wooden puck; similar to today’s rubber puck. As the game’s organization progressed, seven years later, the first club ice hockey team was formed: McGill University Hockey Club. By 1880, there were enough club teams to start a tournament division that each team played against one
That night, the people of Lake Placid went running and cheering through the streets. The next day, the victory made hockey the front-page of newspapers everywhere; the impact reached everywhere, and is still felt today. Since that victory, hockey has almost tripled in popularity in the US at both amateur and professional levels.
If you ask any Canadian what they were doing on september 28 1972, there it a good chance they will say watching the Canadians and soviets battling it out for the title of the summit series. It was one of the largest rivalry games in Canadian history. Kids in school watched the games during class, People across the nation sat on the edge of their seats for the month of september and were thrilled when Canada pulled off the victory. All of the hype leading up to the event made people wonder if the summit series was the biggest event in Canadian sports history or even Canadian history in general.There is no doubt that the summit series was a huge milestone for Canada and brought the nation together for an exciting ride, even to this day we still see the effects of this great event, it sculpted the game of hockey that we know and love today.
Lacrosse is the oldest game in North America estimated between five hundred to one thousand years old. Many villages would play lacrosse together training for battle. Back then lacrosse balls were made mostly of clay. Sometimes they were made from wood and in rare
Lacrosse is the oldest team sport in North America, having been played by Native American tribes long before any European had even set foot on the continent. A century after European missionaries discovered the game played by Native Americans, they began to play it themselves, starting in the 18th century. From there, it evolved and grew in popularity from a very savage game that resembled war, into what it is today, a recreational sport played widely in America and other countries. As U.S. Lacrosse literature aptly puts it "Lacrosse is a game born of the North American Indian, christened by the French, adopted and raised by the Canadians, and later dominated by the Americans.”
It first originated from ball and stick games played in Greece in 400 BCE. With the spread of civilization came the spread of the ideas and characteristics as well. Although there is archaeological evidence of people playing some kind of field hockey it was not played in an organized setting until the 1800’s. In 1872, a man from Nova Scotia by the name of James Creighton moved to Montreal bringing the sport of hockey with him. He brought his sticks and skates and sparked interest from those around him. He first begin to play with others indoor but because the sport was first played with a ball they eventually moved outdoors due to the danger of the ball flying all over indoors. It wasn’t long until Creighton designed a “flat circular piece of wood” later known as the puck that made it possible to play indoors again. Montreal became the hearth or node of Ice
Games similar to soccer were played in China as early as 400 B.C. In 200 A.D. the Romans played a game in which 2 teams tried to score by advancing the ball across a line on a field, which means no soccer goals. They passed the ball to one another, but not by kicking it. Also in the 1100's, London children played a form of soccer (World Book Encyclopedia, S p.73).
Participation in sports and games has long been a part of Native culture. The most significant example of a sport invented and played by Natives is lacrosse. Lacrosse is still designated as the official sport of Canada despite the overwhelming popularity of hockey (http://canada.gc.ca). Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by Native Americans and Canadians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from other stick and ball games, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and vault it into or past a goal to score a point.
When I think of what it means to be Canadian, one of the first things that come to mind is hockey. This is true for many Canadian’s as hockey was and is an integral piece of the formation of the national identity. However, when people think of playing hockey their attention usually turns to the men in the National Hockey League or other top men’s leagues and tournaments. Even so, Canada has come a long way from its beginnings, when women were not even considered persons under the law until 1929. While it has taken many decades for women to receive more recognition in the world of sport, today shows great improvements from the past. A key reason that women are not treated the same way as men in regards to hockey is due to how the game began;
To begin with, Henderson’s game-winning goal shaped modern hockey. Specifically, Canada was under the assumption that they were going to beat the USSR easily, but that all changed when they realized the Soviets could actually play well. It brought both teams together and the Russian influence on the NHL began with that series (Recsey). As a result of how...
the impact it had on places such as Winnipeg and Quebec, where the Winnipeg Jets and