Field Hockey

Title: Field Hockey
Category: Literature / English | Words: 366 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Field Hockey

Field Hockey is one of the world’s most popular games, and is also one of the oldest competitive team sports. The sport of field hockey dates back to 4,000 years ago in the Nile River Valley of Egypt. Throughout the following centuries, variations of the game were played by an entire range of Greeks and Romans to Ethiopians and Aztecs. The modern game of field hockey evolved in England in the mid-19th century. It …showed first 75 words of 366 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 366 total…The game is divided into two halves of 35 minutes each. The first women’s hockey club was founded in London in 1887, and the international federation of Women’s Hockey Associations was established in 1927. Women’s field became part of the Olympics in 1980. Men’s field hockey became an Olympic sport in 1908. International field hockey, controlled by the International Federation of Hockey, also includes competition for the World Cup, the European Cup, and the Manning Cup.

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