who was the precursor of the former sport?
Stick-and-ball games of pre-Christian era.
Ice hockey
Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times
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Ice hockey [SEP] Precursors
Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times. In Europe, these games included the Irish game of hurling, the closely related Scottish game of shinty and versions of field hockey (including bandy ball, played in England). IJscolf, a game resembling colf on an ice-covered surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was played with a wooden curved bat (called a "colf" or "kolf"), a wooden or leather ball and two poles (or nearby landmarks), with the objective to hit the chosen point using the fewest strokes. A similar game ("knattleikr") had been played for a thousand years or more by the Scandinavian peoples, as documented in the Icelandic sagas.