Lacrosse Is The Hardest Sport In America

Do you want to learn about one of the most amazing sports in the world? Lacrosse is considered to be the first sport in America. Evin Demirel an editor for The Daily Beast insists lacrosse was the first sport to be played because “it was first played by Native Americans around a millennium ago” (paragraph 10). Lacrosse was the most widespread sport in America because so many Native American villages played the sport together. Lacrosse got its name from the French. They named it Lacrosse which means the game of the stick. Lacrosse is the oldest and hardest sport still being played 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

The lacrosse players would go up to each other and smack at each other’s sticks trying to dislodge the ball. The French named the game lacrosse which means the game of the stick. Sometimes a player would hit an opposing team’s player, severely injuring the person or breaking bones. There is even one account of a player dying. Anthony Aveni an editor for History.org says, “It is quite common to see someone crippled for the rest of his life who would not have had this misfortune but for his own obstinacy” (paragraph 9). The Indians did not have a goal so they used landmarks such as rocks and trees for a goal. Jane Claydon, an editor for Federation of International Lacrosse claims, “Some estimates have mentioned between one hundred and one hundred thousand players…. On the field at one time” (paragraph 2). There are tons of players. The fields were very extreme ranging anywhere from nine hundred yards to nine miles in length. Players at one end could not see the ball at the other end. The game would last from sun up to sun down many