Which was first, Ice Hockey or Field Hockey?

Answer 1

Before the home run...
before the layup...
before the slap shot...

there was a ball and a stick.

One of the oldest of competitive pastimes, the sport of field hockey dates back well before the Ancient Olympic Games. Although the exact origin of the game remains unknown, 4,000-year-old drawings found in the tomb at Beni-Hasen in the Nile Valley of Egypt depicted men playing the sport. Throughout the following centuries, variations of the game were played by a spectrum of cultures ranging from Greeks and Romans to Ethiopians and Aztecs.

Ice Hockey was not invented, nor did it start on a certain day of a particular year. It originated around 1800, in Windsor, where the boys of Canada's first college, King's College School, established in 1788, adapted the exciting field game of Hurley to the ice of their favorite skating ponds and originated a new winter game, Ice Hurley. Over a period of decades, Ice Hurley gradually developed into Ice Hockey.

Answer 2

There was just hockey to begin with, irrespective of the surface. But I imagine Ice hockey came after Field due to the requirements in preparing the playing surface for Ice hockey.

Answer 3

field hockey was being played in Europe years before they started playing ice hockey.

Answer 4

Field.