| ext"> | | | | In 1879 rules were set down for an organized game at |
| The name hockey comes from the French word | | | | McGill University in Montreal. It began to spread around |
| hocquet which means stick. Itâs not clear how | | | | the area and by the 1890s it had been picked up by |
| the game got started but the story goes that British | | | | the US interests. The first known organized hockey |
| soldiers stationed in Nova Scotia, Canada were playing | | | | game took place between Johns Hopkins and Yale |
| hockey games of one sort or another. No doubt it was | | | | Universities in the winter of 1895. |
| earlier than that when kids played on open ponds with | | | | The first winter olympic hockey games took place in |
| sticks and some form of puck. | | | | the 1924 games in Chamonix, France. The first |
| Olympic hockey has come a long way since it was | | | | womenâs games were held in Nagano, Japan |
| included in the Antwerp games back in 1920. | | | | in 1998. |