Box Hockey

Box hockey is an active game played with a fiveprevalent youth violence.
sided box, a puck, sticks and played outdoors. Its mainMany kids, from Maine to Fairbanks, Alaska, remember
objective is to shift the hockey puck from the box'splaying this game in summer during this time. Andy
centre through holes placed at the box's each end,Brody, in 1994, established Box Hockey International,
also called the goal.beginning to mass produce and market the bigger floor
Every player faces each other on either side of theversion. You can still purchase handmade suitcase
box, attempting to move the puck to the left portion. Iftype games at the Lowell Festival even today.
a player succeeds in making the puck to leave theThey also have a dozen or so setup each year to
box through the goal, the player scores a point.play during festive occasions. Box hockey has also
The first player who gets to score the set goalbeen used for agility training in camps and hockey
amount wins.schools throughout U.S. and Canada.
Box hockey HistoryEquipments used
The origin of this game is mired as a mystery.Below are the equipments required to play the game:-
However, the game has gone around right from the- Box - Nearly 3 foot wide x 1 foot high x 8 foot long
late nineteenth century. Box hockey had witnessedhigh constructed three plywood dividers. Two
huge resurgence in United States, right from the midshortened hockey sticks.
70s to early 80s. This was a part of the dramatic rise- A single hockey puck - The best one for box
of staffing and funding to the Parks and Recreationshockey is a floor hockey puck.
departments across the country to reduce the then