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HOCKEY (possibly derived from the " hooked " stick with which it is played; cf. O. Fr. hoquet, shepherd's crook)  , a See also:game played with a See also:ball or some similar See also:object by two opposing sides, using hooked or See also:bent sticks, with which each See also:side attempts to drive it into the other's See also:goal . In one or more of its See also:variations See also:Hockey was known to most See also:northern peoples in both See also:Europe and See also:Asia, and the See also:Romans possessed a game of similar nature . It was played indiscriminately on the frozen ground or the See also:ice in See also:winter . In See also:Scotland it was called " shinty," and in See also:Ireland " hurley," and was usually played on the hard, sandy See also:sea-See also:shore Ice Hockey (or Bandy, to give it its See also:original name) is far more popular than See also:ordinary Hockey in countries where there is much ice; in fact in See also:America " Hockey means Ice Hockey, while the See also:land game is called See also:Field Hockey . Ice Hockey in its simplest See also:form of See also:driving a ball across a given limit with a stick or See also:club has been played for centuries in northern Europe, attaining its greatest popularity in the See also:Low Countries, and there are many 16th- and 17th-See also:century paintings extant which represent See also:games of Bandy, the players using an See also:implement formed much like a See also:golf club . In See also:England Bandy is controlled by the " See also:National Bandy Association." A team consists of eleven players, wearing skates, and the proper space for See also:play is 200 yds. by too yds. in extent . The ball is of solid See also:india-See also:rubber, between 21 and 21 in. in See also:diameter . The bandies are 2 in. in diameter and about 4 ft. See also:long . The goals, placed in the centre of each goal-See also:line, consist of two upright posts 7 ft. high and 12 ft. apart, connected by a See also:lath . A match is begun by the See also:referee throwing up the ball in the centre of the field, after which it must not be touched other than with the bandy until a goal is scored or the ball passes the boundaries of the course, in which See also:case it is See also:hit into the field in any direction excepting forward from the point where it went out by the player who touched it last . If the ball is hit across the goal-line but not into a goal, it is hit out by one of the defenders from the point where it went over, the opponents not being allowed to approach nearer than 25 yds. from the goal-line while the hit is made . In America the development of the See also:modern game is due to the See also:Victoria Hockey Club and McGill University (See also:Montreal) .

About 1881 the secretary of the former club made the first efforts towards See also:

drawing up a recognized See also:code of See also:laws, and for some See also:time afterwards playing rules were agreed upon from time to time whenever an important match was played, the See also:chief teams being, besides those already mentioned, the See also:Ottawa, See also:Quebec, Crystal and Montreal Hockey Clubs, the first See also:general See also:tournament taking See also:place in 1884 . Three years later the " See also:Amateur Hockey Association of See also:Canada " was formed, and a definite code of rules See also:drawn up . Soon afterwards, in consequence of exhibitions given by the best See also:Canadian teams in with numerous players on each side . The rules were See also:simple and the play very rough . Modern Hockey, properly so called, is played during the See also:cold See also:season on the hard See also:turf, and owes its See also:recent See also:vogue to the formation of " The Men's Hockey Association " in England in 1875 . The rules drawn up by the See also:Wimbledon Club in 1883 still obtain in all essentials . Since 1895 " See also:international " matches at hockey have been played annually between England, Scotland, Ireland and See also:Wales; and in 1907 a match was played between England and See also:France, won by England by 14 goals to, nil . In 1890 Divisional Association matches (See also:North, See also:South, See also:West, Midlands) and inter-university matches (See also:Oxford and See also:Cambridge) were inaugurated, and have since been played annually . See also:County matches are also now regularly played in England, twenty-six counties competing in 1907 . Of other hockey clubs playing See also:regular matches in 1907, there were eighty-one in the See also:London See also:district, and fifty-nine in the provinces . The game is played by teams of eleven players on a ground too yds. long and 50 to 6o yds. wide . The goals are in the centre of each ( end-line, and consist of two uprights 7 ft. high a, surmounted by a hori- ~~ s ; zontal See also:bar, enclosing a °J space 12 ft. wide .

In t$ . a front of each goal is ,5 riggcle n; aece See also:

ing cir See also:curve dlineitsgreatest , diameter from the goal- line ®y line being 15 ft., called the striking-circle . The positions of the players 20 on each side may be seen on the accompany- ,ti ing See also:diagram . Two umpires, one on each ®' 0 0 . 0 ': 0 °o side of the centre-line, Centre line officiate . D i a 0 0 0 0 The ball is an ordinary LW;'', LI CF RI '‘3'RW See also:cricket-ball painted See also:white . The stick has a 0 to hard-See also:wood curved See also:head, OH 0' and a handle of See also:cork LH RH; or wrapped See also:cane . It must not exceed 2 in . n— in diameter nor 28 oz . ;O ~ in See also:weight . At the start S,clping Clre~e y of the game, which a at consists of two See also:thirty n h r or thirty-five See also:minute 'm ds , o, r 1: See also:oar G periods, the two centre- p; 9 , ~j forwards " See also:bully off " T I the ball in the See also:middle 4 uda, of the field . In " bully- Diagram of Hockey Field. ing off " each centre must strike the ground G, Goal . RW, Right Wing. on his own side of the RB, Right Back .

RI, Inside Right. ball three times with LB, See also:

Left Back . CF, Centre Forward. his stick and strike his RH, Right See also:Half . LI, Inside Left. opponent's stick three CH, Centre Half . LW, Left Wing. times alternately; after I.H, Left Half. which either may strike the ball . Each side then endeavours, by means of striking, passing and dribbling, to drive the ball into its opponents' goal . A player is " off side " if he is nearer the enemy's goal than one of his own side who strikesi the See also:hall, and he may not strike the ball himself until it has been touched by one of the opposing side . The ball may be caught (but not held) or stopped by any See also:part of the See also:body, but may not be picked up, carried, kicked, thrown or knocked except with the stick . An opponent's stick may be hooked, but not an opponent's See also:person, which may not be obstructed in any way . No left-handed play is allowed . Penalties for infringing rules are of two classes; " See also:free hits " and " See also:penalty bullies," to be taken where the foul occurred . For flagrant fouls penalty goals may also be awarded . A " corner " occurs when the ball goes behind the goal-line, but not into goal .

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If it is hit by the attacking side, or unintentionally by the defenders, it must be brought out 25 yds., in a direction at right angles to the goal-line from the point where it crossed the line, and there " bullied." But if the ball is driven from within the 25-yd. line unintentionally behind the goal-line by the defenders, a member of the attacking side is given a free hit from a point within 3 yds. of a corner See also:

flag, the members of the defending side remaining behind their goal-line . If the ball is hit intentionally behind the goal-line by the attacking side, the free hit is taken from the point where thefball went over . No goal can be scored from a free hit directly . Hockey Stick . some of the larger cities of the See also:United States, the new game was taken up by See also:American See also:schools, colleges and athletic clubs, and became nearly as popular in the northern states as in the Dominion . The rules differ widely from those of See also:English Bandy . The rink must be at least 112 ft. long by 58 ft. wide, and seven players form a side . The goals are 6 ft. wide and 4 ft. high and are provided with goal-nets . Instead of the English painted cricket-ball a puck is used, made of vulcanized rubber in the form of a See also:draught-See also:stone, i in. thick, and 3 in. in diameter . The sticks are made of one piece of hard wood, and may not be more than 3 in. wide at any part . The game is played for two half-See also:hour or twenty-minute periods with an inter-See also:mission of ten minutes . At the beginning of a match, and also when a goal has been made, the puck is faced, i.e. it is placed in the middle of the rink between the sticks of the two left-centres, and the referee calls " play." Whichever side then secures the ball endeavours by means of passing and dribbling to get the puck into a position from which a goal may be shot .

Tjie puck may be stopped by any part of the person but not carried or knocked except with the stick . No stick may be raised above the See also:

shoulder except when actually striking the puck . When the puck is driven off the rink or behind the goal, or a foul has been made behind the goal, it is faced 5 yds. inside the rink . The goal-keeper must maintain a See also:standing position . There are a number of Hockey organizations in America, all under the See also:jurisdiction of the " American Amateur Hockey See also:League " in the United States and the " Canadian Amateur Athletic League " in Canada . Ice See also:Polo, a winter See also:sport similar to Ice Hockey, is almost exclusively played in the New England states . A rubber-covered ball is used and the stick is heavier than that used in Ice Hockey . The See also:radical difference between the two games is that, in Ice Polo, there is no strict off-side See also:rule, so that passes and shots at goal may come from any and often the most unexpected direction . Five men constitute a team: a goal-tend, a half-back, a centre and two rushers . The rushers must be rapid skaters, adepts in dribbling and passing and See also:good goal shots . The centre supports the rushers, passing the ball to them or trying for goal himself . The half-back is the first See also:defence and the goal-tend the last .

The rink is 150 ft. long . See also:

Ring Hockey may be played on the See also:floor of any gymnasium or large See also:room by teams of six, comprising a goal-keeper, a See also:quarter, three efef reOt'icgt iii: 0 IV forwards and a centre . The goals consist of two uprights 3 ft. high and 4 ft. apart . The ring, which takes the place of the ball or puck, is made of flexible rubber, and is 5 in. in diameter with a 3-in. opening through the centre . It weighs between 12 and 16 oz . The stick is a wand of See also:light but tough wood, between 36 and 4o in. long, about in. in diameter, provided with a 5-in. guard 20 in. from the See also:lower end . The method of See also:shooting is to insert the end of the stick in the hole of the ring and drive it towards the goal . A goal shot from the field See also:counts one point, a goal from a foul i point . When a foul is called by the referee a player of the opposing side is allowed a free shot for goal from any point on the quarter line . See also:Roller Polo, played extensively during the winter months in the United States, is practically Ice Polo adapted to the floors of gymnasiums and halls, the players, five on a side, wearing roller-skates . The first professional league was organized in 1883 . HOCK-See also:TIDE, an See also:ancient general See also:holiday in England, celebrated on the second See also:Monday and Tuesday after See also:Easter See also:Sunday .

Hock-Tuesday was an important See also:

term See also:day, rents being then payable, for with Michaelmas it divided the rural See also:year into its winter and summer halves . The derivation of the word is disputed: any See also:analogy with Ger. hock, " high," being generally denied . No trace of the word is found in Old English, and " hock-day," its earliest use in See also:composition, appears first in the 12th century . The characteristic pastime of hock-tide was called binding . On Monday the See also:women, on Tuesday the men, stopped all passers of the opposite See also:sex and See also:bound them with See also:ropes till they bought their See also:release with a small See also:payment, or a rope was stretched across the highroads, and the passers were obliged to pay See also:toll . The See also:money thus collected seems to havegone towards See also:parish expenses . Many entries are found in parish registers under " Hocktyde money." The hocktide celebration became obsolete in the beginning of the 18th century . At See also:Coventry there was a play called " The Old Coventry Play of Hock Tuesday." This, suppressed at the See also:Reformation owing to the incidental disorder, and revived as part of the festivities on See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's visit to See also:Kenilworth in See also:July 1575, depicted the struggle between See also:Saxons and Danes, and has given See also:colour to the See also:suggestion that hock-tide was originally a See also:commemoration of the See also:massacre of the Danes on St Brice's Day, the 13th of See also:November A.D . 1002, or of the rejoicings at the See also:death of See also:Hardicanute on the 8th of See also:June 1042 and the See also:expulsion of the Danes . But the See also:dates of these anniversaries do not See also:bear this out .

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