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Modern day lacrosse descends from and resembles games played by various Native American communities. These include games called dehontsigwaehs in Oee ("they bump hips") pronounced "de-yoon-chee-gwa-ecks", tewa:aráton in Mohawk language ("it has a dual net") pronounced "de–wa–ah–lah–doon", [3] baaga`adowe in Ojibwe ("bump hips") [4] and Ishtaboli or kapucha toli ("little brother of war ...
Lacrosse has historically been played for the most part in Canada and the United States, with small but dedicated lacrosse communities in the United Kingdom and Australia. Recently, however, lacrosse has begun to flourish at the international level, with teams being established around the world, particularly in Europe and East Asia. [60] [61]
The head of the lacrosse stick has a mesh or leather net strung into it that allows the player to hold the ball. Defensively, the object is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body positioning. The rules of women's lacrosse are different from the men's lacrosse game.
Lacrosse was played by First Nations in Canada before the arrival of European colonists. The first documented description of the game was in 1637. The game was called baggataway and tewaarathon, which was played by two teams with 100 to 1,000 men each on a field that stretched from about 500 m (1,600 ft) to 3 km (1.9 mi) long.
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Box lacrosse is a slightly different version of traditional lacrosse and is played in a dried-out hockey rink. Goalies wear pads comparable to the pads an ice hockey player would traditionally wear. Games in box lacrosse also feature six players versus six instead of ten versus ten matchups in outdoor lacrosse.
After a series of fits and starts that began in the late 1800s, the sport gained traction throughout Rochester and Monroe County.
Lacrosse has been contested at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games, 1904 and 1908. [1] [2] [3] Both times a Canadian team won the competition. [4]In its first year, two teams from Canada and one team from the United States competed at the games in St. Louis, Missouri.