Where Did Hockey Get Its Start?
Therese Pagac
2025-03-27 16:55:13
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Although there are localities and remains that confirm that hockey already existed in Egypt and Ireland, the invention again belongs to the English; at least the modern version of 1886. The first club of the sport goes back to 1861 in London. At first, it was only men, but in 1880 women began to participate in the sport as well. The International Hockey Federation was created in 1886, and the first international matches were held in 1890. It was part of the 1908 Olympic Games.
Guy Bode
2025-03-27 16:42:56
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Hockey on the ice originated in England.
English field hockey's influence was stronger.
The modern sport was more closely related to English field hockey, which was played on ice with skates in the Norfolk area, before being taken to North America by English soldiers in the early 19th century.
Scottish emigrants to Canada played shinty on ice in winter, giving rise to the game of ice hockey.
Scots did make an important contribution to the development of ice hockey, pointing out that an informal game is still referred to as a "shinny" in Canada.
The Scottish shinty connection has been made in a number of Canadian centres, including the vigorous Scots community of Kingston, Ontario, where a newspaper report from 1899 states: 'Hockey is a graduate of old man shinny'.
This is supported by other reports of sons of Scotland playing shinty on the ice in front of the town as early as January 1839.
Sean Price
2025-03-27 15:03:22
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It was people from Northern Ireland (sic) who first brought hurling to Canada. We found out that William Cochran, a principal in a school in Windsor, Nova Scotia, was teaching his pupils hurling, which he then improvised into ice hurling. The seed of the game came from hurling and ice hurling, and then the game just took off. After hurling took to the ice and became ice hurling, it took a new life of its own.
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