I know this may be a stretch from Ice Hockey....
Though still it would be considered the first actual stick and ball game on skates...
You may have already seen these...
These are some old dutch paintings of kolven on the ice...
The first is from Holland dated 1565(The oldest depiction of a stick and ball game on skates)
The second is from 1668
Also...
"New York City and the region encompassing the western half of Long Island are two of the great bastions of American hockey tradition and history. So rich is the history that some have even speculated lower Manhattan and the western half of Long Island could be the birthplace of American 'hockey' traditions dating back to the early 1600s when Dutch settlers played 'Kolven', an early form of stick and ball game, on area ponds near present-day Wall Street and Flushing, Queens.''
In 1657 on the Hudson River, Fort Orange now Albany, NY skaters reportedly played Kolven on ice which is an old fashion form golf invented by the Dutch in the mid-1500's.
''In the year 1657 Claes Hendericksan, Meeuwess Hoogenboom and Gystert van Loenen were brought before the court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck (now known as Albany, New York), for playing het kolven on the ice on the 7th of March"
I don't really consider this Ice Hockey seeing as the SIHR definition is:
Hockey is a game played on an ice rink in which two opposing teams of skaters, using curved sticks, trying to drive a small disc into or through the opposing goals.''
Right!
Although with this definition "Ice Hockey" would have been played many years before the McGill game in 1875...
I'd say The Kiowa(1680)and Sioux(1690) of South Dakota also the Mi'kmaq(Late 1690's) of Nova Scotia would have invented this definition well before euro-contact with the Native American.
If you don't want to consider this hockey then you'd have to go to the year 1782.
When British colonist living then in New York City played Hurley on Skates on The Collect Pond next to King's College ( Now Columbia University).
Then the First Game referring to it as Hawkey would have been at Princeton in the winter of 1786.
C. 1790 I think is regarded as the first real Hockey lineage in Canada when Charles Inglis and Principal William Cochran would have introduced Ice Hurley on Long Pond which led to the creation of Modern Ice Hockey...
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