who made the game lacrosse?
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Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands.\n\nEarly data on lacrosse, from missionaries such as French Jesuits in Huron country in the 1630s and English explorers, such as Jonathan Carver in the mid-eighteenth century Great Lakes area, are scant and often conflicting. They inform us mostly about team size, equipment used, the duration of games and length of playing fields but tell us almost nothing about stickhandling, game strategy, or the rules of play. The oldest surviving sticks date only from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and the first detailed reports on Indian lacrosse are even later. George Beers provided good information on Mohawk playing techniques in his Lacrosse (1869), while James Mooney in the American Anthropologist (1890) described in detail the "[Eastern] Cherokee Ball-Play," including its legendary basis, elaborate rituals, and the rules and manner of play.\n\nGiven the paucity of early data, we shall probably never be able to reconstruct the history of the sport. Attempts to connect it to the rubber-ball games of Meso-America or to a perhaps older game using a single post surmounted by some animal effigy and played together by men and women remain speculative. As can best be determined, the distribution of lacrosse shows it to have been played throughout the eastern half of North America, mostly by tribes in the southeast, around the western Great Lakes, and in the St. Lawrence Valley area. Its presence today in Oklahoma and other states west of the Mississippi reflects tribal removals to those areas in the nineteenth century. Although isolated reports exist of some form of lacrosse among northern California and British Columbia tribes, their late date brings into question any widespread diffusion of the sport on the west coast.\n\nOn the basis of the equipment, the type of goal used and the stick-handling techniques, it is possible to discern three basic forms of lacrosse—the southeastern, Great Lakes, and Iroquoian. Among southeastern tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Yuchi and others), a double-stick version of the game is still practiced. A two-and-a half foot stick is held in each hand, and the soft, small deerskin ball is retrieved and cupped between them. Great Lakes players (Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, Miami, Winnebago, Santee Dakota and others) used a single three-foot stick. It terminates in a round, closed pocket about three to four inches in diameter, scarcely larger than the ball, which was usually made of wood, charred and scraped to shape. The northeastern stick, found among Iroquoian and New England tribes, is the progenitor of all present-day sticks, both in box as well as field lacrosse. The longest of the three—usually more than three feet—it was characterized by its shaft ending in a sort of crook and a large, flat triangular surface of webbing extending as much as two-thirds the length of the stick. Where the outermost string meets the shaft, it forms the pocket of the stick.\n\nLacrosse was given its name by early French settlers, using the generic term for any game played with a curved stick (crosse) and a ball. Native terminology, however, tends to describe more the technique (cf. Onondaga DEHUNTSHIGWA'ES, "men hit a rounded object") or, especially in the southeast, to underscore the game's aspects of war surrogacy ("little brother of war"). There is no evidence of non-Indians taking up the game until the mid-nineteenth century, when English-s
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A Canadian man named James Naismith invented the game of basketball while at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.
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Canadian Dr. James Naismith created the game of basketball from 13 original rules and while those rules have been modified over time, the essential principles remain constant.\n\nCheck web sight:\nhttp://www.nba.com/history/thegame_index.html
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HI THERE DEBORAH LOUISE, TAKE IT FROM AN IRISHMAN, ITS A GREAT GAME, ITS PLAYED WITH A HURLEY STICK(looks like a very large spoon ha ha made of ash wood). 15 players on each team, 14 outfield and a goalkeeper. the post or goal are like that in american football but the post come all the way to the ground and bleow the bar(crossbar) level you have a net like a soccer goal. If you get the ball(sliothar) into this its a goal(worth three points) or over the bar but between the posts its a point worth obviosly one point... and its played at a very fast pace..
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I have, very interesting game.\n\n:>peace
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http://www.lacrosseforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43
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LACROSSE ROCKS! Been to many professional lacrosse games and they kick butt. Too bad yahoo doesnt care. Might be because there are SO many lacrosse leagues. In the hockey forum, you mainly get the NHL. In lacrosse, there are many lacrosse leagues to talk about which to yahoo might not be a good idea. (MLL Major League Lacross and NLL National Lacross League to name two.)\n\nMaybe we should gather up yahoo employees, stick them in a lacrosse arena and then see what happens. Muahaha ;)
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this game comes from the american indians. a hard ball is cradled in a leather woven basket that is open and attached to a approximately 3 foot pole. players rock the stick above their heads to keep the ball in the cradle and run down the field to throw the ball into the oppponents net. like field hockey but in the air instead of on the ground. colleges like this game, esp on the east coast
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I play but you probably want to do boy's lacrosse
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I gotta go with Football(not soccer, american football) and the fastest growing sport in america, Lacrosse. I play and watch them both.
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Football(American). People dont get hurt as much as you think. If you live in the US, play the original american sport....Lacrosse! its so much fun.
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That is a great question for guro joe at:\n\nhttp://www.playnow.co.il/Games/game_eng.cfm?ID=100
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James Naismith invented the game
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Thats a great question for guro joe at:\n\nhttp://www.playnow.co.il/Games/game_eng.cfm?ID=100
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lacrosse was invented by the iriquios(sp) a few hundred years ago, i think its about 500 years ago. \nbut when they played, it was like sacred, there was no roughing other players and each team had dozens of ppl on the field. sounds like crazy fun though.
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I used to play quite a few sports in school.\nI would have to say that I enjoyed playing volleyball and lacrosse the most.\nAs an adult, I am still keen on lacrosse.  I like to watch it as well as play it.  It takes such skill, eye hand coordination, and speed to play the sport.  It is a unique mix of football, hockey, and even basketball skills.  I think that is why I like it so much.  Said to be the fastest game on two feet.... you be the judge.\n\nI also like to attend LIVE football and basketball games.  I can't get into watching them too much on television.  I love watching Nascar, but get a bit tired of watching after 100  or so laps.  I turn the race back on when they are down to about 20 or so laps left.\n\nSo my all time favorite would be lacrosse.  My youngest son has fallen in love with the sport and really enjoys playing it.
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According to the web site below, David Belle and Sebastien Foucan created the sport. \n\nLots of info at the site below ( in english and french)