Did the English invent hockey?
Aglae Langworth
2025-06-02 07:02:01
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Hockey is Canada's national sport, and long-thought to have been invented here. But Montreal historian Jean-Patrice Martel says he has have uncovered new evidence that proves the game was born in England.
Aron King
2025-06-02 06:38:55
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The term “hockey,” according to The Canadian Encyclopedia, can be traced to a 1773 book published in England called Juvenile Sports and Pastimes. In Great Britain, newspapers as early as the 1840s referenced hockey played on ice. In 1864, the Prince of Wales played hockey on a lake with a London skating club. Added The Star about the first game: “The game is like Lacrosse in one sense—the block having to go through flags placed about 8 feet apart in the same manner as the rubber ball—but in the main the old country game of shinty gives the best idea of hockey.”
Scarlett Conroy
2025-06-02 06:17:51
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The birth of modern hockey and drafting of the first rules of the game was in the United Kingdom in 1876, following the establishment of the first clubs, Blackheath Club (est. 1849) and Teddington Hockey Club (est. 1871). Hockey debuted at the Games of the 4th Olympiad in London, England in 1908, with England, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales competing in the Olympic Men`s Hockey competition. In 1927, the International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations (IFWHA) was formed with 8 founding National Associations (Australia, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa & USA with Catherine Gaskell (GBR) as its first president.
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