Lacrosse

Lacrosse is one of many varieties of stickball games being played by American Indians when Europeans began coming to America. Almost totally a male team sport, it is different from the others, like field hockey or roller hockey, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, catch and ‘throw’ it into or past a goal to score a point. The rules of lacrosse are simply that the …

…resembles the Indian game of the past, retaining the wooden stick, without the protective gear and specific sidelines of the men's game, and tending towards mass attack rather than field positions and off sides (that’s what the game should be all about right?). In conclusion lacrosse is a decent game with an expansive background and requiring great skill (and courage… could u imagine getting smacked in the head with one of those wooden balls!?).