Oldest Hockey Team: Who Takes the Crown?
Jaunita Marquardt
2025-05-10 22:48:51
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Blackheath Hockey Club is reputed to be the oldest Hockey club in the world and was formed no later than 1840. In 1897, almost 57 years later, an advert appeared in the Loughborough Echo announcing that: “The newly formed Hockey Club for Loughborough will hold a practice match this afternoon at Shelthorpe at 3 o’clock to which all interested in the game are invited”. It was after that practice match that Loughborough Town Hockey club was officially formed.
Annetta Lockman
2025-05-01 08:24:49
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Blackheath Hockey Club marked their 150th anniversary with a match on the heath against a Parliamentary team full of MPs and their staff. Founded by the Old Boys of Blackheath Proprietary School, the club used to play its matches on the heath but, since 1952, has been based in Rubens Street. Committee member Michael Earnshaw said: "The match we played was next to the church on the heath which is where this club started."
Carmelo Ziemann
2025-04-27 09:18:07
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Teddington Hockey Club are the world’s oldest and due to delays relating to the pandemic, they are celebrating their 150th anniversary this year. The sport of hockey was formally invented in Bushy Park by the local cricket club looking to play sport following a particularly wet summer, and created hockey and Teddington Hockey Club which still exists to this day. Marcus Wardle, archivist at the Hockey Museum, said: “Teddington are the founders of modern hockey." "But in my opinion Teddington are the most influential team in modern hockey because they formalised the rules and you can see their influence all over the game.”
Pasquale Cassin
2025-04-21 19:33:22
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It was the first established hockey club. We have been accepted and ‘rightfully’ exist as the oldest club for 160 years, it’s a bit late to change that now. ‘It’s undoubtedly Blackheath’. According to the book “Hockey” written in 1899 by P.A. Robson and J. Nicholson-Smith, the publication states: “This club was formed not later than the year 1840.
Erick Roberts
2025-04-09 21:45:25
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Teddington HC have the rightful claim to the accolade over Blackheath, according to research by The Hockey Paper. But the debate over who can lay claim to this historic mantle can now be put to bed. Teddington HC, who mark 150 years this season but have put celebrations on hold.
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