Who Really Invented Hockey?
Johan Hermann
2025-05-21 12:35:05
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Canada's national pride has been dealt a serious blow after Britain laid to inventing ice hockey - claiming Charles Darwin was one of the sport's first ever participants. A recently-discovered letter sent by the famous naturalist in 1853 asks his young son if he has a good pond at school, adding: 'I used to be very fond of playing at Hocky [sic] on the ice in skates'. If that is the case, ice hockey would have been played in Britain at least 50 years earlier than the first officially recognised match in Canada, where is it now a national sport and general obsession. Canada took the game, sped it up and made it better.
Cleta Johnson
2025-05-15 08:24:32
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Ice hockey’s roots stretch back centuries to premodern British stick and ball games and indigenous lacrosse. Montreal in the 1880s was the center of the modernizing sport. It began among anglophone middle classes and quickly became popular. The first formalized rules were taking shape in the period when the Stanleys saw their first game.
Federico Leuschke
2025-05-13 07:36:09
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It is said to have been invented by British soldiers stationed in Canada. These soldiers would play the game during their free time on the frozen lakes. Of course, no one can really confirm this story as there are no written records of the game’s origins. However, it is widely believed that hockey originated in Canada.
Ethan Bruen
2025-05-05 09:22:30
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Most people consider its rightful birthplace to be in Canada, where hockey is the country’s national sport. Some say that the Irish and French played a version back in the 1700s, but others say that Canadians invented it in the mid-1800s. The first organised indoor hockey game was played March 3, 1875, at Montreal’s Victoria Skating Rink, between two teams of nine players each, many of whom were McGill University students.
Elvie Sanford
2025-04-22 21:21:56
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Darwin's letter was sent to his then 13-year-old son William, who was boarding at Shrewsbury School at the time, on March 1, 1853. The evolutionary theorist had himself attended the school as a boarder between 1818 and 1825 himself, and it is thought his reference to enjoying "hockey on the ice" relates to this time. The early 1820s was around the time that a game recognisable as ice hockey started.
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