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Hockey
A Brief History:
Ice hockey is a sport
played by two teams of six players on a rectangular surface of ice called
a rink.
The players, who wear
ice skates, attempt to knock a circular piece of hard rubber, the puck,
into one of two goals, situated at opposite ends of the rink. Players
use a stick with a flat blade at one end to drive the puck forward at
speeds that sometimes exceed 160 km/h (100 mph). Records of early hockey
games date back to mid-19th-century Canada.
The first formal hockey
game was played in Kingston, Ontario, in 1855, with teams drawn from the
Royal Canadian Rifles, an Imperial Army troop.
The first set of hockey
rules was codified by W. F. Robertson, a McGill student, who adapted the
rules of field hockey for play on ice. In 1893 the governor general of
Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, offered a trophy (the Stanley Cup).
Today the cup is awarded
annually to a professional team-the champion of the National Hockey League
(NHL). Hockey became an Olympic Games event in 1920.
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