American field hockey rules 1899-1900, by James Huff McCurdy
Description:
This document is the original American field hockey rules from 1899 at Springfield College written by James Huff McCurdy. The document was originally in a booklet and has 17 rules. There are some handwritten edits to be made to the rules in pencil throughout the document. The booklet is 14 pages and it has some small tears around the edges. Signed in ink on the front page is J.H. McCurdy. Lawn hockey was introduced to the Springfield Training School by Dr. McCurdy in the fall of 1896, and after a season of play the English rules were adopted. As of 1903, the school was the only place in the country to play the English game. The field is a little smaller than a football field. For more information on lawn hockey rules, see “The Games of Lawn Hockey, Tether Ball, Golf-croquet, Hand Tennis, Volley Ball, Hand Polo, Wicket Polo, Laws of Badminton, Drawing Room Hockey, Garden Hockey,” published by the American Sports Publishing Company (New York, New York) in 1903. A document marker in the same folder as this document, "Pages were in two booklets with even pages in one and odd in the other. Binding broke and booklets were combined."
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