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Ball-play of the Choctaw – ball up by George Catlin, c. 1846–1850. Lacrosse is based on games played by various Native American communities as early as 1100 AD. [18] By the 17th century, a version of lacrosse was well-established and was documented by Jesuit missionary priests in the territory of present-day Canada. [19]
The country’s best lacrosse players hit the field today for the 2023 Premier Lacrosse League Championship Game, which pits the defending champion Waterdogs Lacrosse Club vs. the top-seeded Archers.
Major League Lacrosse was founded in 1999 as a more "nontraditional" style of field lacrosse. Main differences in MLL are the use of a shot clock and a two-point-goal line. LXM Pro is more "traditional" in their approach to game play. Field lines match the lines of standard lacrosse field.
Myles Jones (born March 15, 1993), is an American professional lacrosse player with Atlas Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League.He attended Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station, New York, completed a post-graduate year at Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut and played collegiate lacrosse at Duke University.
Rob Pannell (born December 11, 1989) is an American professional lacrosse player who plays for the California Redwoods of the Premier Lacrosse League. He played college lacrosse at Cornell University. [1] He is amongst one of the top leading scorers in men's Division I lacrosse history. He currently holds the Cornell points record and assists ...
Lacrosse sixes (also known as World Lacrosse Sixes) is a version of lacrosse played outdoors with six players on each side. [1] The game follows similar rules to traditional field lacrosse , with modifications and a shorter game time, and is considered to be more fast-paced. [ 2 ]
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.
Man-up and Man-down, also known as power play, or extra man opportunity (EMO), refers to situations where one team is shorthanded as a result of a penalty. [3] The offensive team attempts to take advantage of their extra player to score a goal, while the defensive team will try to stop them from scoring until they get back to even-handed.