lacrosse
points by shooting the ball
changed significantly, and
into the opposing team's goal.
there are now four distinct
Lacrosse is a team sport in
The early versions of the
games in Canada: men's field
which players pass, catch, and
game involved large teams of
lacrosse,
women's
field
carry a rubber ball, using
Indigenous warriors playing
lacrosse, box lacrosse, and
sticks with a netted pouch at
over a field that could be over
inter-Crosse.
one end. The object of
a kilometre in length. Since
lacrosse is to accumulate
that time, lacrosse has
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what is lacrosse?
Association of Canada was
American Indians and was
formed in 1867, it was the
originally known as stickball.
Dominion of Canada’s first
The game was initially played
Lacrosse is one of the oldest
governing body of sport.
in the St. Lawrence Valley
organized sports in North
Lacrosse was confirmed as
area by the Algonquian tribe
America. While at one point it
Canada’s official summer
and they were followed by
was a field game or ritual
sport in 1994. The Canadian
other
tribes
in
played by First Nations, it
national lacrosse teams (men
the eastern half
of
became popular among nonand women) rank highly in the
North America, and around
Indigenous peoples in the
world standings, both in field
the western Great Lakes
mid-1800s.
When
the
and box lacrosse. Lacrosse
National
Lacrosse
was started by the Native
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When and where was
lacrosse created?
The origin:
Members of the various
Algonquian language groups
referred to early ball games as
baggataway.
Strong
similarities among the war
club, lacrosse stick, and even
the drumstick, shown in
photos of early Ojibwa
implements, support the
connection between these
early ball games and the later
development of lacrosse.
There is also a strong link
between lacrosse and the
Mohawk ball game known as
tewaarathon. As with other
early Indigenous ball games,
tewaarathon served a few
functions; as the game was
played by a large number of
warriors on fields that could
be over a kilometre long, it
kept young men fit and strong
for both war and hunting. It
could also be played to
strengthen
diplomatic
alliances, support social
conformity and economic
equality, and honor the gods.
In general, Aboriginal women
were excluded from these
games, although in some First
Nations women did play ball
games on their own, or with
men.
Lacrosse used to be called “le jeu de la crosse” (the game of hook stick)
(French)
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The Canadian national team:
The Canadian national team is one of the top field lacrosse teams in the world, and competes in the World
Lacrosse Championships, which take place every four years. In 2006, Canada won its first championship
in nearly three decades when it defeated the United States of America 15–10. At the 2010 Championships
in Manchester, England, Canada was narrowly defeated by the US team in the championship final. The
2010 World Lacrosse Championships were notable for the absence of one of the strongest lacrosse teams
in the world, the Iroquois Nationals. The Iroquois Nationals represent the Haudenosaunee on both sides of
the Canada–US border; it is the only Indigenous team that has been sanctioned to compete in international
sporting competitions.
fun facts
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Lacrosse is the fastest game to be played on two
feet.
Lacrosse is also one of the fastest growing sport
in the United States.
The first women's lacrosse game was played in
Scotland, 1890.
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