Lacrosse is sport played with a stick with a net on the end and a rubber ball the size of a tennis ball. Its name originally was just stickball before it was changed later on. The sticks used to be made out of wood, but now it can also be from plastics to all sorts of metal. They can also vary in size from a yard to two yards depending if you’re on offense, defense, or the goalie. The ball used to be made out from deerskin, clay, stone or wood, but thankfully it’s not as heavy now as before. Simply put, to play you catch, carry and pass the ball to make your goal. It’s a mixture of soccer, hockey and basketball in certain aspects. To play, you have try a make the ball on the opposing team’s goal, but you cannot touch the ball with your hands.
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It initially was played by the Algonquian tribe that was later followed by the east half of North America and near the Great Lakes. Lacrosse would also settle disputes as a diplomatic tool and ritualized battles reinforced political fellowship. The first Europeans to take note of Lacrosse being played were by French missionaries in the St Lawrence Valley in 1630s. Jean de Brébeuf was one of these French men who wrote about the Huron Indians in 1636 and he himself ended up naming the game he saw as Lacrosse. In 1740s, European settles began to bet and wager on the games of local tribes. This led to redistribution of material wealth and was a social leveler as even if a tribe ended up losing once, their victories in the future would make up for it. The Ojibwa tribe played a game by a British fort to distract their soldiers and then surprised attacked and killed them. In 1834 was when Canada’s steady interest in lacrosse began as the Caughnawaga Natives displayed a game in Montreal. They even named lacrosse as it’s national sport in 1860s. A Canadian dentist was actually the one in 1866 to draw up the rules to the game and redesigned the ball and stick. A year later from that there were exhibition games being played in England where the Queen herself even enjoyed the game. By 1904 and 1908, Lacrosse was introduced into the Summer Olympics. Nearly a hundred years …show more content…
Lacrosse still continues to be a fast growing sport across the world as it has spread from a game traditionally for Native Americans to leagues all around for competitive and recreational reasons. It is the fastest growing sport currently for the United States. There are over 600 men’s and women’s college teams in the United States and about 200,000 high schoolers playing in the last 10 years. In Massachusetts, there has been a boast of more than 6,000 young lacrosse players from grades 2nd to 8th. The U.S Lacrosse established in 1998 now has membership to 250,000 players, coaches and
It initially was played by the Algonquian tribe that was later followed by the east half of North America and near the Great Lakes. Lacrosse would also settle disputes as a diplomatic tool and ritualized battles reinforced political fellowship. The first Europeans to take note of Lacrosse being played were by French missionaries in the St Lawrence Valley in 1630s. Jean de Brébeuf was one of these French men who wrote about the Huron Indians in 1636 and he himself ended up naming the game he saw as Lacrosse. In 1740s, European settles began to bet and wager on the games of local tribes. This led to redistribution of material wealth and was a social leveler as even if a tribe ended up losing once, their victories in the future would make up for it. The Ojibwa tribe played a game by a British fort to distract their soldiers and then surprised attacked and killed them. In 1834 was when Canada’s steady interest in lacrosse began as the Caughnawaga Natives displayed a game in Montreal. They even named lacrosse as it’s national sport in 1860s. A Canadian dentist was actually the one in 1866 to draw up the rules to the game and redesigned the ball and stick. A year later from that there were exhibition games being played in England where the Queen herself even enjoyed the game. By 1904 and 1908, Lacrosse was introduced into the Summer Olympics. Nearly a hundred years …show more content…
Lacrosse still continues to be a fast growing sport across the world as it has spread from a game traditionally for Native Americans to leagues all around for competitive and recreational reasons. It is the fastest growing sport currently for the United States. There are over 600 men’s and women’s college teams in the United States and about 200,000 high schoolers playing in the last 10 years. In Massachusetts, there has been a boast of more than 6,000 young lacrosse players from grades 2nd to 8th. The U.S Lacrosse established in 1998 now has membership to 250,000 players, coaches and