where does hockey originate?

Answer 1

Canada invented the Hockey due to all of the frozen ponds and things around. It was soon named Hockey.

Answer 2

The game originated in Canada around 1855, when the game on ice was first played with a puck rather than a ball, distinguishing it from field hockey, as played by British soldiers in Canada. A sport similar to ice hockey, bandy, also uses a ball. Modern field hockey was born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England on January 18, 1886. The current governing body of the global game is the International Hockey Federation or FIH.

Answer 3

Canada invented hockey.

There are many other forms of hockey derived from hockey, not all of THOSE were invented in Canada.

Other forms:

table hockey
field hockey
air hockey
street hockey
floor hockey
roller hockey
video hockey

Answer 4

Field Hockey (though it probably wasn't called this) you know stick, ball, field... was one of the earliest sports in history to be invented, but on the complete other side of the world from Canada. Hockey played on ICE like you see it today was invented in Canada. A lot of provinces here fight over who actually invented "Ice Hockey" but never the less, ice hockey is Canadian.

Answer 5

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.

A man who is still North America's most quoted author, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, born in Windsor in 1796, told of King's boys playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a young student at the school around 1800. This is the earliest reference in English literature of a stick-ball game being played on ice in Canada. Haliburton, who wrote the first history of Nova Scotia, was the first Canadian to acquire international acclaim as a writer, and the account of his recollection is therefore of great significance.

Answer 6

I have to go with Windsor , NS, Canada. I agree with the "King's Collegate" (Now Kings-Edgehill, since it went co-ed) story. I question if the author of " Sam Slick" is as often quoted as Mark Twain, but I could be wrong. My nieces went to (K-E) until this year & I will be spending Christmas in Windsor, so I know better than to dispute the Hockey legend. I want to get home to Halifax, in one piece.

Answer 7

Field hockey is the oldest known ball-and-stick game and is believed to date from the earliest civilizations, although there is no conclusive evidence of exactly how and where the game began. The Arabs, Greeks, Persians, and Romans each had their own versions of hockey and traces of a stick game played by the Aztec Indians of South America have also been found. Hockey can also be identified with other early games, such as hurling and shinty and, during the Middle Ages, a French stick game called hoquet was played, and the English word may have derived from this. The sport is referred to as field hockey to distinguish it from the sport of ice hockey.

'Modern hockey' developed in the British Isles but it was not until the first half of the 19th century that field hockey became firmly established. The first club was Blackheath, headquartered in southeast London prior to 1861. The club played on a large piece of open ground with crudely designed sticks and a 'ball' that was a solid cube of black rubber. At this time there were few offensive or defensive tactics involved in the game and, although Blackheath was the first club it was Teddington, another London club, which modernized and refined the game by introducing several major variations into hockey, such as: including the ban of using hands or lifting sticks above the shoulder. They also began to use a sphere as the ball (instead of the rubber cube) and, most importantly, they instituted the striking circle which was incorporated into the rules of the newly founded Hockey Association in London in 1886.

After modern field hockey had developed in the British Isles in the late 19th century, it spread throughout the British Empire, largely due to the British army and this is one reason why India, Pakistan and Australia are so formidable (all were British colonies). Today, field hockey is played all over the world by a variety of countries and field hockey is currently recognized as the second largest team sport in the world, just behind soccer.

Ice hockey as we know it is first played in either Windsor, Nova Scotia, Kingston, Ontario or Montreal, Quebec, depending on who you believe and how you read the evidence. It was introduced by English soldiers, who wanted to play, but had no flat feilds, so played on ice instead.

Answer 8

Canada invented Hockey and a Canadian invented Basketball and 5 pin bowling too.

Answer 9

you to be dumb not to know that canada is where hockey came from. EVen my friends who dont know anything about hockey know that

Answer 10

Way too many grey areas.

Montreal was the site of the first RECORDED (ie newspaper) hockey game.