FIL World Championships Lacrosse 2010
England

USA vs Canada

LACROSSE HISTORY

The Canadian’s were of course underdog gold medal winners in both ’78 and ’06, even though the country is usually known more for their box teams & heritage versus the field game. Lacrosse is Canada’s official summertime sport, hockey taking over the winter months not surprisingly.

Here’s a quick breakdown of the country’s history within the national field game as told by regular NLL Insider contributor Jason Donville, currently with Team Canada in England…

There is relatively little in the way of historical notes on the history of lacrosse or the origins of the World Championships of lacrosse on the internet. Fortunately, we do have Donald Fisher’s superb book Lacrosse: A History of the Game as our back up. According to Fisher, between 1867 when the sport was formally codified and the 1920’s teams from Canada, the USA and England played each other on a fairly regular basis. However, the game of lacrosse split into two major faction’s in the 1920’s when the construction of arenas in Canada led to the creation of the sport of box lacrosse. For a variety of reasons Canada abandoned field lacrosse within only a few years and the US and Canadian lacrosse communities drifted apart for close to fifty years.

In 1966, in an effort to get Canadian and American lacrosse teams playing against each other once again lacrosse teams from Ontario and Michigan staged an exhibition game combining rules from both box and field lacrosse, This inaugural exhibition was held in Windsor, Ontario and led to the first World Lacrosse Championships, which were held in Toronto in 1967. This expanded competition included teams from Australia and England with Canada represented by the Peterborough Pepsi Petes and the US represented by the Mount Washington Lacrosse Club of Baltimore.

Match scheduled:
START: 17-07-2010 from 18:30 until 20:30

Main Round :: FIL World Lacrosse Championships 2010 :: Manchester, England