Ice Hockey¡¯s Main History - By: Koly Alen

In the seventeenth century, we can see the earliest record of ice hockey on Dutch publications. Gentlemen wear ice skates, which are tied with bones and skate on the frozen river with a round cake slide. Records of Micmac Indians in Canada begin to emerge in the 19th century. It says that Micmac Indians plays a similar game like ice hockey with sticks and wooden round cakes.

While other people hold the opinion that ice hockey stemmed from lacrosse, which is an old American sport. However, the most widely circulated and accepted theory is that ice hockey evolved from the field hockey, which is played on a ground. Hockey originated in northern Europe, has more than five hundred years history. The British troops quartered in Canada brought this sport to North America.

On December 25, 1855 in Canada, the first game was held in Kingston. The sport of ice hockey preached to Europe in 1858. In 1860, Canada began to use rubber disc-shaped ice hockey. On March third, 1875 in Montreal Victoria of Canada, the first official hockey game was held in McGill University, two teams participated in it. On the court, there were thirty players at that time. The rules of the game were developed by Professor Robertson and Smith who were students of McGill University in 1879. They set the number of nine people for each game. In Canada, hockey quickly became the most popular item. The first Amateur Hockey Association was formed in 1885, it give people who love hockey sport a opportunity to participate in it. However, it was unreasonable that the Association collected a fee from amateurs. To analyze the development at this stage, you can find that athletes began to use more equipments to ensure the safety problem of the body, such as the goalkeeper is of great use the board as well as put on a mask.

Afterwards people in the United States and Europe began to play the sport of ice hockey. In 1893, Canadian ice hockey team began to perform in the United States for the first time. In Les Wong of Switzerland, the first European ice hockey club was set up in the year of 1902. The association of the International Ice Hockey was founded in 1908 in Paris, IIHF was its new name. The league headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1910, the first hockey tournament was held, British won the championship. Seven years later, the Hockey League of the United States was established. There are only six teams taking part in the game in 1967. In recent years, NHL has become the world's professional and commercial league.

The Association of Canadian National Hockey first adapted the playing method of six people in 1912, and it is also adapted by Ice Hockey League nowadays. And the influence of the NHL also becomes bigger and is similar to the NBA of the world's basketball. The Stanley Cup of American Hockey League also stands for a legendary honor. In the 1860s, appearing the women's ice hockey. In Toronto, Ontario, the first women's ice hockey game was held in 1892. Both American and Canadian players took part in the competition in 1916, which was the first women's ice hockey game that was held by America.
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