Hockeys Origin Unmasked: The hidden hand covering a Native source Mickoski Howdie
Hockeys Origin Unmasked: The hidden hand covering a Native source Mickoski Howdie "This book is a staggering amount of research" (Editor)Where did hockey really start? Not really.Montreal between…
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Hockeys Origin Unmasked: The hidden hand covering a Native source Mickoski Howdie
"This book is a staggering amount of research" (Editor)Where did hockey really start? Not really.Montreal between 1850 to 1880 is presented as the most innovative hotbed of sports in history. You might think that answer has been solved.
What is the coincidence that four of the five major North American sports were all founded in Montreal in a thirty year period? In just 30 years this city "invents" hockey, lacrosse, American football, and if James Naismith had continued teaching at McGill University one more year - perhaps basketball. How is that possible?
The obvious answer is that it wasn't. Nothing was "invented" in Montreal.So what happened regarding the supposed "first game of organized hockey" in 1875? I realized that three very important questions have never been properly answered.
Why Montreal? Why 1875? Why James