Lacrosse is one of the oldest sports around today. It was originally played by the Iroquis indians and was called "baggataway". Some games would last for days and the field would go for miles. It was played as either a celebration after winning a war, or a training before war. Most of the time, there were no goals, and there would be up to ten balls played at once. Sometimes, the winner would be the team that has held the ball the longest and who has the least amount of players dead, not the team with the highest score. The original sticks were made out of a stick widdled down to make it circular on the end and cow hid and was used as the mesh. Usually a rock was used as a ball. The game would consist of mostly the whole tribe, and, most of the time, get deadly. Baggataway was finally named lacrosse when French explorers saw the Iroquis playing baggataway and thought the stick looked like a French preist's "La Crosse". Lacrosse was originally played only in Canada, but it is starting to become a United States sport.
Today's game is played with helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, and rib pads (optional). Everywhere from your arms down go unpretected. Goalies have to wear helmets, neckpads (connected to helmet), torso pads, and gloves, but they don't have to wear elbow pads.
No comments:
Post a Comment