Lacrosse

Lacrosse...More than just a game

Equipment used

Why they played Lacrosse...

LACROSSE

What is Lacrosse?

Lacrosse is a ball game invented by Native Americans, played by two teams who try to propel a ball into each other's goal by means of long-handled hooked sticks that are loosely strung with a kind of netted pouch

No protective equipment was worn in traditional lacrosse.

The first lacrosse sticks had one end bent into a 4 to 5-inch diameter circle, which was filled with netting. The netting was made of wattup or deer sinew.

• Length between two and four feet long
• Today’s lacrosse sticks most closely resemble that of the eastern Woodland tribes.

Some early lacrosse balls were made out of wood. Others were made of deerskin stuffed with hair. They were typically three inches in diameter.

Gambling!

The training and games served as an excellent training for war.

To settle arguments and resolve territorial disagreements.

Man’s individual rite of passage into manhood.

Spiritual game

(cc) photo by theaucitron on Flickr

2011

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1867

Only with the formation of the Iroquois Nationals in the 1980s did the original lacrosse founders successfully become eligible to compete in World Games.

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1900

The first intercollegiate tournament

In Oklahoma in 1900 when the Choctaw tribe were seen attaching lead weights to their sticks in order to crack their opponent’s skulls. After this, lacrosse was banned for several years. When it finally did come back again in 1904,

W. George Beers

Olympics in St. Louis

Montreal Newspaper

Jean de Brebeuf

In the 1970s mass productions of lacrosse sticks made lacrosse equipment more available to a larger number of athletes.

1904

1930s

Stick materials were changed

The creation of basic rules

The Father of lacrosse

A new set of rules

W. George Beers

1980s

Queen Victoria

Lacrosse is said to have been invented

John Clayton

"An Acount of the

Indians in Virgina"

Seven Years War

Britain/France(Fox soldiers)vs the Ojibwa tribe

New York University

Louisa Lumsden

"It is a wonderful game, beautiful and graceful"

2011 Today lacrosse is competed by England, Australia, the United States, Ireland, and Scotland. Lacrosse is also played in 500 colleges and 1400 high schools. The sport has become a combination of the sports football, hockey, and basketball. Fairly recently the sport has become popular and broadcasted nationally on the radio and television. Artifacts of early equipment from the 1900s can now be found in museums on the Atlantic coast.

The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in Baltimore, MD is to honor men and women, past and present, by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors

Created by Phil Kenney III