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Hockey - Stirling
There are 4,000-year-old drawings of a game with curved sticks
and a ball in the Nile Valley, Egypt. Other ancient variants of
this game were played by Persians, Aztecs, Arabs, Greeks, Romans
and Ethiopians.
The game proved so popular with medieval soldiers that the game
of "hokie" was banned in the 1527 Statute of Galway: "At no tyme to
use ne occupye the horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes
or staves, nor use no hande ball to play withoute walles, but only
greate foote balle."
Versions of hockey were played throughout the 19th century in
English public schools and the first modern hockey club was founded
in 1849 at Blackheath. The modern rules were devised in 1871, when
members of the Teddington Cricket Club chose to play hockey in the
winter.
Hockey was played at the Summer Olympics in 1908 but was dropped
in 1924 because it did not have an international federation. This
led to the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Hockey
sur Gazon (FIH) and hockey was reinstated in 1928.
Check out the
rules of hockey.
At The Stirling Centre hockey the whole hall must be rented to
play hockey.
- Adult members must pay £35; non-members £59.
- Junior members must pay £12.50; junior non-members £29.80. On
weekdays, the adult rate must be paid from 4pm.
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