Essay On Field Hockey

Field hockey is a sport played by both men and woman and is considered to be one of the oldest sports in the world. It’s played with a curved stick and a hard, small ball. The objective of the game is to score goals and defend your own. It started out as folk culture, just like most sports, so exact origins of when and who first played the game are unknown, but there are still many traces and variations of the sport from the past. In 510 B.C., a group of people in Ancient Greece had played a field-hockey like game with a horn and any round object that their environment had available as well as the Gaelic sport of hurling which is closely related to field hockey.1 In East Asia, a sport played with a curved-shaped wooden stick and a ball was also played in around
A couple of decades later, official rules that are mostly still relevant in the modern game, were invented. Then in 1886 the first field hockey association was founded.2 As the game began to develop and spread more, in the late 19th century, English public schools began playing the modern game of field hockey. Then as the British Empire expanded their borders globally, it caused them to share the practices of field hockey and that resulted in it becoming one of the most popular sports in the world.1 This was definitely one of the major transitions from folk to popular culture. It went from being played (variously) in a few small civilizations along with the more wealthy/royalty of England, to being known and played the same all over the world by anyone. The first international field hockey competition was in 1895, Ireland vs. Wales. Field hockey was even added to the Olympics in 1908. Originally, field hockey was mainly a male sport, as it seemed to be too physical for woman to play, but in 1901, Constance Applebee brought woman’s field hockey to the United States and it became extremely popular, explaining why it’s mostly known as a female sport