I love watching Hockey.
Oh awesome, but consider this there are actually different variations of hockey like bandy, field hockey, and ice hockey! Many people dont know that about it.
I've never heard of bandy.
Yes the origin of the word hockey is unknown but it is thought of as a derivative of hoquet which is a middle french word for shepherd's stave.
When did hockey first start?
word "hockey" is in the 1773 book "Juvenile Sports and Pastimes, to Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Author: Including a New Mode of Infant Education" by Richard Johnson (Pseud. Master Michel Angelo), whose chapter XI was titled "New Improvements on the Game of Hockey". The belief that hockey was mentioned in a 1363 proclamation by King Edward III of England is based on modern translations of the proclamation, which was originally in Latin and explicitly forbade the games "Pilam Manualem, Pedivam,
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- Ringette is an ice hockey variant that was designed for female players; it uses a straight stick and a rubber ring in place of a puck. The rules differ from those of hockey and resemble a mix of lacrosse and basketball.
- Rink bandy and rinkball are team sports of Scandinavian origin that are played like bandy but on an ice hockey rink and with fewer players on each team.
- Rossall hockey is a variation played at Rossall School