Earliest Origins

Hello again readers, and if you're new here, then welcome to my blog! This is Cole here, and this is my second blog post of the week. In tonight's post I will basically be picking up where I left off on Tuesday, because I found a great new source to fill in the blanks I left on the previous post. So lets stop the introduction and get into the info! I discovered, using this great web page; Fischler, Stanley I. "Ice Hockey." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. <http://www.britannica.com/sports/ice-hockey>., that ice hockey's earliest influences were from 18th and 19th century stick-and-ball games played in the United Kingdom. These games reached Canada's east coast in the early 1800's during the time period where Europeans began to migrate to North America, and over time games like early lacrosse and hurling slowly adapted to the cold Canadian environment and turned into a game played on frozen ponds, with a small wooden disk in replacement for a ball and two stones frozen into the ground on each side of the ice, which functioned like the modern-day net. This was ice hockey's humble beginning, and Canada earned credit for inventing the sport when the first public indoor ice hockey game was played in Montreal on March 3, 1875. Well, that will conclude tonight's post. Next Tuesday will be a much longer blog; I have planned to talk about the first official ice hockey leagues. Until then, have a good night.

This is a picture of a very old hockey stick and ball (because balls were used before the creation of the puck). These are great examples of the earliest form of hockey equipment.

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.