Welcome Readers

Hello readers! My name is Cole Sears, and I set up this blog so I may create informative posts about a topic of my choice for a class research project. I will run this blog for 5 weeks, and posts will be on Tuesdays and Fridays. Now you may be asking yourself, "Cole, what is the topic you have chosen?" And the answer to that question is; the sport of ice hockey. I take heavy interest in this topic because I watch a lot of hockey games on T.V. and have been to several live hockey games, and I am a big Anaheim Ducks fan! I hope to learn about ice hockey's vast history as well as how the early and middle versions of the sport are similar and different from the current version of hockey, all from the research I conduct for this project. By the time I am finished with this blog entirely, my goal is to answer this one main overlaying question, 'How has the sport of ice hockey changed between now and its first appearance?' The first resource I used to conduct my research was the website; Vaughan, Garth. "Origin Overview." Birthplace of Hockey. Web. <http://www.birthplaceofhockey.com/origin/overview/>. The web page informed me that ice hockey was formed on the east coast of Canada sometime around 1800, but, unfortunately, this source did not contain the majority of the info I was looking for. It did not explain to me what activities influenced the creation of ice hockey, along with the location of these earlier activities. I will probably refer back to this page for info in another post, but for tonight's purpose it was a bust. I will try to make up the info I missed in the next blog post, so that means I will see you all again (hopefully) this Friday! 

The old photograph below shows college students playing ice hockey.