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    Lacrosse A Game With History

    Nov 01, 2019 2 minutes
    by Stanley A. Freed

    Lacrosse is an ancient sport. It is probably the oldest team sport in the United States and Canada. The ball-and-basket game was a favorite of the eastern North American tribes from the Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. In the 1600s, French Jesuit missionaries in present-day Canada were the first Europeans to see the game played. They named it ”the game of translated literally from the French is “the crosier,” or shepherd’s crook.)

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