Hockey

Hockey game is played on the natural grass; gravel, sand based and water based artificial turfs. It is played with the very small hard ball. This type of game was included in the modern Olympic Games in 1908. It is the game of 11 players between two teams which is completely against with each other and using their 'hooked' sticks to hit, pass, push and dribble a small, hard, usually white, ball, with one aim in mind-to score the more points by getting their ball into a opponent's goal.

The first hockey club was organized in black heath in the 1861. The first international match was played between England and Ireland in 1895. Hockey sport is very popular in India when the British regiments played the game in India and introduced it in the British Indian regiments who quickly picked up the game. In this game all players used the sticks to play the ball where as in the football they used their feet to play the ball and the rules of hockey are similar to the rules of football.

Hockey game is played by both men and women. The pitch also has an electronic scoreboard and permanent spectator seating for 350 peoples It is played between the two halves of 35 minutes each with a half time of 10 minutes and if you try to score a goal, then you keep the ball away from the other team. It is played outdoors on a grass and synthetic field. Hockey became an Olympic sport in the 1908. It is the game of eleven players each on two teams. It is the game of eleven players each on two teams. In this game you can use only the flat face of stick.

The Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Persians and Ethiopians all played variations of the game. Several centuries before Christopher Columbus found his New World, the Aztec Indians were playing it in Central America. The Araucano Indians of Argentina invented a game similar to hockey called Cheuca, believing it would make them better warriors. Yet, the term `hockey’ is believed to be of French origin. A 16th century Irish document refers to hockie, but the term probably comes from the French hocquet, meaning a shepherd’s crook.

The modern game we know as hockey - or field hockey, for those distinguishing it from ice hockey - evolved in the British Isles in the 19th century. It was a popular English school game, possibly adapted from the Irish game of hurling. The British army helped spread hockey internationally through the British Empire, its popularity especially booming in India and Pakistan. The London Hockey Association formed in 1886, and rules soon were standardized. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) formed in Paris in 1924, and the International Federation of Women’s Hockey followed in 1927.