Ice Hockey Origins Hurling

There s a direct bloodline from the ancient game of hurling to canada s national sport.

Ice hockey origins hurling. Including a new mode of infant education by richard johnson pseud. The first use of a puck instead of a ball was recorded at kingston harbour ontario canada in 1860. Back around 1800 the school having been established by united empire loyalists in 1788. Ice hockey origins growth and changes in the game history of sports home ice hockey history changes and important milestones.

Reproduced with the kind permission of irish connections canada nova scotia was still a british colony at the time that the irish game of hurling was introduced to boys at canada s first college king s college school in windsor n s. In scotland people played a similar game called shinty variations include shinny schynnie and chamiare. One of ireland s native gaelic games it shares a number of features with gaelic football such as the field and goals the number of players and much terminology. It shares a common gaelic root with the sport of shinty which is played predominantly in scotland.

When the europeans made their way across the atlantic to north america they. And frequently on the streets by large assemblies of stout apprentices and boys. John kindly took to the time to chat to world irish about his own story the history of gaelic games in canada its. Hurling was an ancient irish stick and ball game that was originally played on the ground and resembled modern field hockey it later evolved into the aerial game played today.

This game was also played on the ice by large parties particularly by skaiters when there was usually a keen contest. Hurling emigration and ice hockey the history of the gaa in canada john o flynn is the current secretary of the canadian gaa county board and has literally wrote the book on the history of the gaa in canada. The shinty or club used to be played in all weathers on the inch. Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient gaelic irish origin.

It turns out ice hockey traces its roots back to celtic culture. One of those anecdotes goes as follows. Master michel angelo whose chapter xi was titled new. Over 250 years ago.

The objective of the game is for players to use a wooden stick called a hurl to hit a small ball called a sliotar. However several references have been found to hurling and shinty being played on the ice long before the earliest references from both windsor and dartmouth halifax and the word hockey was used to designate a stick and ball game at least as far back as 1773 as it was mentioned in the book juvenile sports and pastimes to which are prefixed memoirs of the author. The origin of canada s official national winter sport from hurley on ice to ice hockey. Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice and the goals were two stones each frozen into one end of the ice.