Tell Me Something About Hockey

The ice hockey derives from Canada. A kind of prevalent game on ice come into being in Canada Kingston in 1855. The players' feet all have ice skate blades and their hands both hold hockey. On froze lake playing and clapping ice hockey, which is made of wood. There is no limitation of people number and places. The door is just two wooden clubs. This is predecessor of our modern ice hockey.

In 1879, Canada McGill University in Montreal had organized one formal ice hockey match. The professor WF and RF had drawn up with their common efforts. At first it is need 11people for every side and then gets into 9 persons and next change was 7 at last the number is 6 persons. In the first time, there were eleven players in both sides but it changed 9 and it changed again 6, which is 6 people eventually. There is getting improvements of clubs and the ball. At last this kind of sports will be developing into America and European little by little.

The international ice hockey federation had set up in Paris in the year of 1908. The headquarters was located in the capital of Austria; Vienna. In 1920, the ice hockey was listed in the event in the seventh Olympic game. In 1924, the first winter Olympic game held in France. The champion was obtained by Canada team in overwhelming superiority.

The ice hockey of Canada had been in the first place from 1924 to 1953 years. They won the world championship for many times. The team of Soviet Union won the twentieth world hockey tournament to become first title with defeating the Canada team in 1954. It broke the situation of exclusive advantages of Canada.

In China the ice hockey sports had over sixty years' history. The city of China held the first shows and plays on the ice had also the first hockey games in 1953. The hockey had rapid developments after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. There are five teams to take part in the match in1953that first whole country hockey match in the Harbin. In the some provinces and cities such as northeast and north had set up many kinds of hockey teams one after another.

Since1995 there was one time of whole country hockey match to be held in every year. After 1956, China hockey team had entered into the international match. China won sliver medal winner in the world hockey tournament group C which was held in Beijing in 1981 and so China had won the chance of entering into the group B. The first Asian winter games were held in Japan, which our China won the first title in the year of 1986.

There are football, field football and speed skating in one body of hockey. The hockey is a kind of sport which has their skills and tactical concept. His birthday is later than that of football; field hockey and speed skating.