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History of Hockey

The history of hockey is similar to that oftime.
golf as it basically is rooted from any game
that involved a stick and a ball or rockThe game continued to grow in popularity and
which have all been played for thousands ofbecame so popular that Montreal offered the
years. Very rough and crude forms of thesefirst World Championship of Ice Hockey in
games have been taking place for thousands of1883. European hockey continued to grow at
years throughout Europe, Egypt and Souththe college level while a number of
America  that  have  formed  hockey  history.universities  formed  fierce  rivalries.
Hockey began to form clearer roots throughoutSome dramatic rule changes were applied that
England in the sixteen and seventeenhelped progress the game to a field of eleven
hundreds. These were treacherous games thatplayers while hockey equipment began to
often combined the entire village versusevolve as well. The use of safety equipment
another village and teams could often have upto include pads, helmets, mouth pieces and
to a hundred players and the players oftenprotective eye shields have dramatically
played through major injuries and enduredimproved from the early days of hockey
several  days  of  these  games.history. It was not uncommon to not even
wear  head  gear  until the last few decades.
The sport that we are more familiar with
today began to form at Eton University inThe international appeal of hockey grew
England when they actually began to formulatetremendously due to the Olympic Games. It
rules around 1860. Then the first Hockeywas first played at the Games in 1924 and
Assoc. in the history of hockey was formed inonly allowed male teams. Canada was a safe
1875  which  clarified  more  rules.bet to win the gold medal as they won the
first six out of seven golds. From the mid
Further growth of the sport was spawning infifties to the eighties the Soviet Union
North America as new settlers came to thedominated. Although the US won its first
continent. Montreal was credited with thegold medal in hockey history in1960 it was
first organized game in the history of hockeythe 1980 "Miracle on Ice" where our college
that was played in 1875 by college students.amateur team went on to beat the heavily
The students then formed more associationsfavored Russians that spurred a growth in
and leagues and created new rules at the sameAmericas appetite for hockey.



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