what was old hockey puck's made out off?

Answer 1

Rubber. Players used to use rubber balls, but they bounced and rolled too much. With experimentation, they found that slicing the top and bottom off created a puck that slid across the ice and was easier to control.

Answer 2

This question and answer site is stupid. Just do a google search and you can find the answer to just about anything. You are all right except you forgot one item that was used sometimes and that was a small carved stone.

This was a passage taken from an article on the history of the hockey puck.

We can trace the origin of the modern hockey puck back to 1872. Up until that time early day hockey enthusiasts would use a knot of wood, or possibly a small carved stone, or even a piece of frozen cow dung to bat around on the ice. But in 1872 some unnamed sadist invented the rubber hockey puck. (The word puck supposedly originated in the 17th century from a French verb that means "to poke" - which is just a mild description of what the average hockey puck actually goes through.) Ever since then the hockey puck has been subjected to horrendous abuse and torture.
Hockey pucks have

Answer 3

Are these people stupid? Horse manure? Never. Original hockey pucks were made from maple trees.

Answer 4

My dad use to play, (in the 50's, because he was poor, but really poor, family of 9 and everythings you know about the history of Quebec) with "pomme de route", it's iced horse's manure, nothing less.

Answer 5

sugar and spics and everything nice......and a little rubber from old tires.

Answer 6

rubber