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Post by james on Nov 3, 2017 16:09:21 GMT -5
The Ducshene Gardens in Pittsburgh from January of 1900.It was the first arena to have Dasherboards sourounding the ice.
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Post by james on Aug 2, 2017 11:53:10 GMT -5
These are five articles I've found from both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in the years 1895, 1896, and 1897. Pittsburgh Daily Post, 22 Dec 1895, Sun, Page 7 The Pittsburgh Press, 10 Nov 1896, Tue, Page 6 Pittsburgh Daily Post, 01 Dec 1896, Tue, Page 6 The Pittsburgh Press, 02 Dec 1896, Wed, Page 6 The Times, 05 Dec 1897, Sun, Page 12
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Post by james on Jan 2, 2017 10:55:14 GMT -5
It shows here that George Washington used to play shinny as a kid in the early 1700's Attachments:
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Post by james on Nov 15, 2016 11:45:21 GMT -5
Here's a link to a group of Canadian players being prisoned from playing Hockey in Court Square, Boston on November 22nd 1855. Also a link to how The Spalding Hockey Club of Chicago introduced hockey net's to Canada in early 1895. Plus the introduction of Rink dimensions and Boards in the San Francisco Pavillion Skating Rink in 1871.
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Post by james on Nov 14, 2016 8:25:33 GMT -5
I Found a couple more reference's to indoor Ice-Hockey in the New York area... Date: Thursday, March 10, 1870 Location: New York, New York Paper: World Article Type: Newspaper Article Skating. Brady's Rink, Jersey City Date: Monday, January 30, 1871 Location: New York, New York Paper: New York Herald Article Type: Newspaper Article Attachments:
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Post by james on Nov 12, 2016 9:10:31 GMT -5
I seem to have pre-dated what is widely considered the first Indoor organized Ice-Hockey game in the world in Montreal from 1875 with an interesting article about an indoor organized Ice-Hockey match in Brooklyn from 1871... Date: Thursday, January 26, 1871 Location: New York, New York Paper: New York Herald Article Type: Newspaper Article Attachments:
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Post by james on Oct 9, 2016 16:27:02 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 30, 2016 8:09:10 GMT -5
Lacrosse is considered to be the oldest hockey-related game in the world first played by the Cherokee in the Southeast back in 1100ad. *Lacrosse played on Ice by the Sioux*in*South Dakota (Now Minnesota) in 1848 Image of an Ice lacrosse game in Connecticut from 1859.
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Post by james on Aug 22, 2016 7:22:58 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 19, 2016 7:04:56 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 16, 2016 8:56:21 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 13, 2016 9:11:12 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 5, 2016 9:09:01 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 5, 2016 8:06:20 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 4, 2016 13:36:42 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 4, 2016 10:51:34 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jul 30, 2016 10:47:17 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jul 18, 2016 16:23:44 GMT -5
This was written in 1876... "Over three hundred years ago, and for ages immemorial before the white man had ever set his fatal foot in this country, all the inland region.from what is now Canada to North Carolina, and westward from Central Pennsylvania to Michigan, was peopled by the Iroquois nation." "Together they traversed the dense forest covering all the western or Canadian banks of the Thunder Water, hunting the elk, the bear, and the bison, the roe and the reindeer ; together they trapped the fox, the rabbit, and the beaver ; together they fished in the sah- sah-je-wun or rapids, or the great lakes Erie and Ontario ; Side by side they lay, in winter, on the frozen surface of the water, their heads covered with skins,spearing the salmon through the airholes with*their*barbed aishkuns. And together -they bound snowshoes on their feet, and danced or ran races, emulating the flight of the shaw-shaw, or swallow, in swiftness, or engaged in ball -play on the ice. was peopled by the Iroquois nation the salmon through the air-holes in the ice with their barbed aishkuns; and together they bound snow-shoes on their feet, and danced or ran races, emulatingthe flight of the shaw-shaw, or swallow, in swiftness, or engaged in ball-play on the ice." books.google.ca/books?id=65UeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=ball+ice+Iroquois&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijj6O15_3NAhUo44MKHT7RDcUQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=ball%20ice%20Iroquois&f=falseIs this suggesting that the Iroquois played hockey in the 1500's?
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Post by james on Jul 16, 2016 12:54:35 GMT -5
Hurlry on Ice Elsingburgh Colony NJ 1685 This is from a book written in 1836... " When the gay groups had finished their rounds in the village, the ice in front [on the river J was seen all alive with the small-fry of Elsingburgh, gambolling and skating, sliding and tumbling, helter-skelter, and making the frost-bit ears of winter glad with the sounds of mirth and revelry. In one place was a group playing at hurley, with crooked sticks, with which they sometimes hit the ball, and sometimes each other's shins. In another, a knot of slidersy following in a row, so that if the foremost fell, the rest were sure to tumble over him. A Uttle farther might be seen a few, that had the good fortune to possess a pair of skates, luxuriating in that most graceful of all exercises, and emulated by some half a dozen little urchins, with smooth bones fastened to their feet, in imitation of the others, skating away with a gravity and perseverance worthy of better implements. All was fun, laughter, revelry, and happiness ; and that day, the icy mirror of the noble Delaware reflected as light hearts as ever beat together in the new world. Such are supposed to have been the juvenile sports of New-year's day, in the Middle States, one hundred and fifty years ago." archive.org/stream/festivalsgamesam00smit#page/332/mode/2up/search/Hurley+
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Post by james on Jul 16, 2016 8:15:37 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jul 5, 2016 11:56:31 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jun 27, 2016 8:42:24 GMT -5
The Milwaukee Skating Rink in 1873...
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Post by james on Jun 26, 2016 18:01:59 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jun 22, 2016 11:17:02 GMT -5
This was wrtitten in 1877... "The habits of Bostonians upon Sundays, thirty years ago, were very different from what they are now." "The Latin and High School pupils, who had just moved into their new building in Bedford street, played hockey in the autumn from the Joy and West-street path eastward to Park-street fence, without" a policeman to watch them, and without so much as a baker's dozen of idlers interested in the progress of their game, where there would be thousands to run and see them now.Yet that very ball-ground was then, as it is now, the most frequented part of the Common. Occasionally a sort of town and gown row between the young lovers of the humanities in Bedford street and the less fortunate " Mason-streeters," as they were termed, arose upon the slopes below the ghincko tree, nor did the parents wonder, when the young hopeful came home to his supper with a cut lip,*a smashed nose, or a bruised eye, that such things should be, although some mothers lamented that their children would not go round the Common, as they did, instead of across it." books.google.ca/books?id=nHoFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA14&dq=boston+common+hockey&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLkciu9LvNAhVI5IMKHayEByAQ6AEIJzAA
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Post by james on Jun 22, 2016 7:52:16 GMT -5
I found this interesting passage out of the Harvard Daily Echo dated January 19th 1881... "There is a large sheet of fairly good ice on Holmes Field, near the society building. This ice is at present used only by the youthful citizens of Cambridge, who are breaking off the young birch trees that have been set out there, in order to make hockey sticks.There is plenty of room on this ice for a game of hockey, and it would be well if a game could be started there every afternoon while the skating lasts.During the winter we have few enough chances for out-of-door exercise, and this opportunity should not be neglected. The streets of Cambridge are at present too icy to make walking agreeable, and it requires too much time to go to the various ponds near Cambridge for skating. If there is not sufficient interest in hockey to start a game on Holmes, perhaps we might be favored with the spectacle of a game of lacrosse on the ice." books.google.ca/books?id=oz0BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85-IA4&dq=ice+for+a+game+of+hockey+every+afternoon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRkpKhwLrNAhVp54MKHdYcAb4Q6AEIMzABPlus this may not be a contempory source I know although still interesting... The modern hockey puck was invented around 1875. There are two different versions of its origination. One story claims that in 1875, students at Boston University sliced a rubber ball in half to make a puck. books.google.ca/books?id=8EBaAAAAYAAJ&q=1875&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiwcnjw7rNAhVs2IMKHf-PA8sQ6AEIIzAA
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Post by james on Jun 9, 2016 12:10:41 GMT -5
The Duquesne Gardens Pittsburgh circa 1900. "The Duquesne Gardens was the main sports arena located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the first half of the 20th century. Built in 1890, the building originally served as a trolley barn, before becoming a multi-purpose arena. The Gardens opened 3 years after a fire destroyed the city's prior sports arena, the Schenley Park Casino, in 1896. Over the years, the Gardens was the home arena of several of Pittsburgh's historic sports teams, such as ice hockey's Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Hornets. The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which was the first ice hockey league to openly hire and trade players, played all of its games at the Gardens. The arena was also the first hockey rink to ever use glass above the dasher boards. Developed locally by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Herculite glass was first tested in Pittsburgh. Most rinks were using wire mesh before the shatterproof glass was invented."
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Post by james on Jun 5, 2016 10:23:49 GMT -5
This is a passage from a book written in 1900 about the Alaskan Inuit and by my judgment is the answer to the original post. "Skating. — This is "par excellence" the popular exercise of the men and boys. They make skates for themselves, sharpening the edge of a piece of an iron barrel hoop and inserting the blunt edge into a block of wood, which has been rudely shaped to accommodate it to the boot, to which it is bound by sealskin straps. They do not pretend to be graceful skaters ; they prefer to play ' ' shinny " rather than practice tricks." books.google.ca/books?id=CFBZAAAAIAAJ&dq=block&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=block
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Post by james on May 28, 2016 14:17:16 GMT -5
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Post by james on May 26, 2016 16:04:11 GMT -5
"The era known as the Viking age lasted for more than 300 years, from the late 8th century to the late 11th century. The history of the Vikings is closely linked to their role as masters of the sea. They were feared as fierce and ruthless pirates. However this does not complete the story of the Vikings. They were also poets, lawmakers and great artists. Their superior ships explored unknown seas and they settled new lands." "The games most frequently alluded to in the ancient Sagas are : — Game at ball ( knattleikr). In this game a large number of young people used to assemble on an open plain or on the ice. The ball, which was called kniittr, was made of wood or of some hard substance ; and the bat with which it was struck, knattre. Two persons of about equal strength were matched together, and the game seems to have consisted in this, that when one of them struck the ball, the other tried to catch hold of it. Very frequently disputes would arise among the players, when one of them would strike the other a violent blow with the ball or with the bat." www.ingebretsens.com/culture/history/the-vikings-and-the-viking-erabooks.google.ca/books?id=h44BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&dq=knattleikr&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2guvpxfjMAhUr6IMKHdg_BBAQ6AEIVjAJ"During several of our recent feasts, we have attempted to recreate the Viking era ball game called knattleikr. While the game is mentioned in the stories, (such as the Icelandic family sagas), the sources are silent about the details of the game. No examples of the playing equipment are known to survive. No listing of the rules has survived. In the stories, usually all that's mentioned is the fact that people played the game, that players had disputes, and frequently, that blood was spilled." www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/knattleikr.htmUnfortunately there is no mention of skates being used in these games although it may have been possible.
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Post by james on Apr 18, 2016 18:48:50 GMT -5
"Mr T. S. Dozier ° writes as follows : About the middle of January there is played a game that is to the Pueblos what baseball is to the Americans. It is nothing more or less than the old game of shinny, generally played on the ice, as with us. The pu-nam-be, or ball, used is a soft, light affair, made of rags and buckskin or wholly of buckskin. The pu-nam-be stick is generally of willow, with a curved end, and is about 3 feet long. Men, boys of all sizes, and girls of all ages, and now and then a- married woman engage in the pastime. The sexes do not play together, nor the boys with men. Among the men wagers of every description are made.During the past winter, in a game between the men, which lasted nearly a whole day, the side that was beaten had to dance a solemn dance for a whole day. Quite a difficulty arose on account of it.-Tesuque New Mexico." books.google.ca/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&pg=PA643&dq=During+the+past+winter,+in+a+game%C2%A0solemn+dance&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR0Ob6rZnMAhXsm4MKHfAjByYQ6AEIHDAA
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