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English: Pittsburgh Athletic Club (P.A.C.) hockey team, 1899–1900 season. Back row, from left: Harry Edwards, Charles S. Miller (manager), Herb Reyner. Middle row, from left: Frank Edwards, Harry Stoebener, Clarence Diebold. Front row, from left: Robert Hamilton, O'Neil (?), Walter Coulson.

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Title: Official rules for ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling
Year of Publication: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Hockey Polo on skates Curling Figure skating
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and clubs fromthe latter place have returned the compliment. Nearly all of Can-adas leading sevens have delighted audiences in different cities ofthe United States, and American players cross the border to chasethe puck with them. Indeed, it will not be surprising if, some day,an enterprising team sails the broad Atlantic to cross sticks with anEnglish or Parisian aggregation. The infatuating influence of the game has drawn together largecrowds to witness hockey matches, and the wildest. Reports fromevery city in the United States and Canada tell encouraging tales of thegrowth of the game and of the strides that it has made in popularity. It is not difficult to speculate on the probable future of this noblegame. One can see arenas in every large city crowded to the doorswith enthusiastic spectators, and whereas we now have only a fewfirst-class teams, we will soon have a hundred, because hockey is agame that fascinates the player and thrills the spectator. SPALDING S ATHLETIC LIBRARY.
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SPALDING S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. ORIGIN OF HOCKEY How entrancing the sight ! what life Is around !The air is so bracing ! the snow on the ground The glimmering steel in its flash on the eye,Marks out the line, as the skater goes by. Websters definition of hockey reads as follows: A game in wliichtwo parties of players, armed with sticks or clubs, curved or hookedat the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit ofwood) towards opposite goals. The learned lexicographer must, of course, refer to the game ofhockey as played in England, or to the game as played in Canada inthe good old days when anything from a broom-handle to a shillalahwas used as a hockey stick, and a tin can rendered service as a puck. O list, the mystic lore sublime,The fairy tales of modern time. To trace back the sport to its very birth is not within the provinceof this little work; besides, its earliest history seems lost in a back-ground of Egyptian darkness. Truly, it is a tact, though, that the foun

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