Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport played with 10 players per team ( men's lacrosse ), 12 players ( women's lacrosse ) or 6 players ( box lacrosse ). Each player carries a stick(crosse) terminated with a net, he / she holds the ball. The aim of the game is to shoot the ball with the stick in the goal of the opponent, where 1 goal is awarded 1 point score. The lacrosse ball is a hard rubber ball with a weight between 142 and 149 grams, and is similar in size to a tennis ball . The sport is a combination of basketball ,American football , hurling , ice hockey and hockey .

Lacrosse is a great sport in Canada and the United States . The sport is the national summer sport of Canada, alongside the national winter sport ice hockey. The increase in popularity in the US, where it is the fastest growing sport in high schools and on NCAA College level [1] . Meanwhile, about 430,000 men playing lacrosse in the US . In the Netherlands, for lack of lacrossevelden, the sport played on grass or artificial turf. There are 4 types of lacrosse: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's lacrosse and box lacrosse mixed. The last two variants are not practiced significantly in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Lacrosse was twice on the program during Olympics ; in 1904 in St. Louis, and four years later in London. In addition, it was still three times a demonstration sport at the Games, including in 1928 in Amsterdam .

Contents

 * 1 History
 * 2 Men's lacrosse
 * 3 Rules - Men's lacrosse
 * 3.1 Technical fouls
 * 3.2 Personal fouls
 * 4 Women's Lacrosse
 * 5 Box lacrosse
 * 6 See also
 * 7 External links
 * 8 Sources

History [ edit ]
"An Indian Ball-Play" by George Catlin, circa 1846-1850.

The sport originated in the North American Indians . They called it dehuntshigwa'es ( Onondaga language: 'men beat a round object'), da-nah-wah'uwsdi (Eastern Cherokee : "little war") or Tewaarathon ( Mohawk "little brother of war"). With this game, they trained the young men of the tribe, preparing them for war, and fought in conflicts between tribes. The field was large (500 meters to several kilometers long) and the game lasted very long (two or three days).

The sport was given its name by French scouts who saw the Indians playing the game. A worldwide known but incorrect explanation for the name lacrosse is that the shape of the stick the French reminded the staff that was used by a bishop in the French designated CROISIER. "Crosse" also means "butt" as in crossbow "butt bow," the crossbow after all, has a wooden flask. Flask and "golf" are also related. Compare the ancient game flasks or kolfbal. A "crosse" or "cob" is any big wooden "bat" as a weapon or instrument to practice with a ball game. The missionary Jean de Brébeuf admittedly made ​​the link between the "butt" of the Indians and the crosier in Relation des Jésuites,published about 1640, but the French word "crosse" anyway has the meaning of flask.

Richmond Hill "Young Canadians' lacrosse team, 1885.

In reality crosse a general French term for each pole, flask, bat in a ball game. A hockey stick is also a French crosse. The name is a reference to the flask, and perhaps a referral from a phrase like "le jeu de la crosse" ("The game with the butt").

In 1856 founded Dr. William George Beers, a Canadian dentist, lacrosse Montreal Lacrosse Club, and in 1867 he set the rules for a less violent and deadly variant of lacrosse. He explained, among other things, the length of a match and the dimensions of a lacrosseveld fixed. The first match played under the rules of Beers was Upper Canada College at the Toronto Cricket Club in 1867 . The game ended 3-1 for Toronto Cricket Club.

By the early twentieth century began more and more high schools, colleges and universities to play the game and lacrosse became a medal sport in 1904 and 1908 at theOlympics .

Men's lacrosse [ edit ]
Men's field lacrosse.

A team of men's field lacrosse consists of 10 men. The object of the game is to throw a hard rubber ball in the goal of the opponent. One plays on a field of grass or artificial grass about 54 meters (60 yards ) wide and 100 meters (110 yards) long. The Netherlands plays one in the absence of official lacrossevelden on (smaller) hockey and football.

A lacrossedoel is 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall and 6 feet wide, and tapers off. The net of a lacrossedoel is similar to a goal net in hockey . The lacrossedoel is surrounded by a circle with a diameter of 18 feet (5.5 meters), which the crease is called. The crease is 20 yards from the end line, through which one can pass behind the goal. The area behind the target is usually referred to as "X", and is usually occupied by an attacker.

There are always three attackers (Attackmen), three Midfielders (Midfielders), three Defenders (Defenders) and a Goalie in the field. Although the numbers are fixed, the position of the players on the field are not defined. Each player carries a stick with a length ranging from 40 to 42 inches (101.5 cm - 106.7 cm) Midfielders, and 52 to 72 inches (132.1 cm - 182.9 cm) for Defenders. The Goalie carries a stick with a length between 40 and 72 inches, and the head of the stick must not exceed 15 inches (38.1 cm) wide, to stop so more balls. The head of the stick both Midfielders, Defenders and Attackmen must be at least 6 inches (15.2 cm) wide at its widest point and 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) wide at its narrowest point.

The head of a male stick

The stick consists of a head, pocket, shaft and butt end. The head is made ​​of a strong type of plastic and generally white in color. The pocket is the net where the ball is at rest, it is usually nylon or leather . The shaft is the handle below the pocket, and is usually made ​​of aluminum or titanium or an alloy thereof. Some players prefer a wood shaft: this is heavier and breaks down more quickly, but is also cheaper. Metal shafts must be closed at the end with a butt-end to avoid cuts.

All players on the field are required to wear gloves and a helmet, a toque is recommended for everyone. Additional equipment is also allowed, and the amount depends on personal preference. Midfielders and Attackmen wear standard shoulder, chest and back protection and elbow protection. Some of them also carries ribbescherming. Defenders usually sufficient to chest and back protection, and some of them also not wearing such protection. Goalies are required to wear besides the standard mandatory helmet and gloves, a toque, chest protection and a throat protector.

Unlike women's lacrosse, men may kicking the ball, and cover it with the stick, provided that they do not get out of this game (withholding the ball from play) for example by hiding them in their clothing or in their pocket. The ball must not be caught with your hands. The game is fast and flowing, and on television the ball is sometimes difficult to follow. 10 to 15 points to be scored in an average game.

Rules - Men's lacrosse [2] [ edit ]
Lacrosse is a full-contact sport in which one wears protection. A lacrossewedstrijd in the Netherlands consists of four quarters each lasting 20 minutes. Between the quarters, there is respectively 2, 10 and 3 minute break. The beating with the stick and body checking is an important part of the sport. To prevent injuries, many rules apply during the game.

Players may strike with their own stick on the stick of the ball carrier, and gloves attached to the baldragende stick. If a ball carrier holds his stick with only his right not to be beaten on his left hand. The body check may only be between shoulders and hips, in front of the opponent. If a player in his back, on his helmet or below the hips checked or beaten, the game is stopped and the offender will be given a time penalty.

In the beginning of a quarter or after a goal is the face-off made ​​in the middle of the field. Midfielders two, one from each team, put their sticks horizontally on the ground, against each other, with the ball between them. The butt-end is pointing to the left of the field, parallel to the center line. The two face-off they fight for the ball, usually by covering it as quickly as possible with their pocket and sliding toward one of the two remaining Midfielders who after the whistle by the referee from the wing line coming to the middle of the field run. Attackmen and Defenders should come this time not over the restraining line, they may pass over it when one of the Midfielders either party has the ball in possession.

In lacrosse, two types of punishments are given: technical fouls, and personal fouls. If a player commits an offense, is before the referee blows his whistle and what the punishment. Technical fouls are among other data if a player is off-side, holding another player, or used his free arm to push away opponents (warding). The penalty for this is 30 seconds. Personal fouls are more serious in nature and are given to the more serious offenses such as checking illegal, striking dangerously with the stick, but also swearing or cursing on the field (unsportsmanlike conduct). The penalty time ranges from 1 minute to 3 minutes. If a player has committed five personal fouls, he is sent off the field permanently. If a player gets penalty, he must sit in the penalty box at the edge of the field until his sentence is over and he again allowed the field. Also, the other team gets possession.

Technical fouls [ edit ]

 * Holding: Implies that a player with his hands or stick holding the opponent or opponent's stick.
 * Interference: The player deliberately obstructs the free passage of an opponent who is not the ball is carrying.
 * Offside: During a game must always four players on the defensive half of the team, and a minimum of three players in the attacking half. Otherwise (case: a Defender walks to the attacking half, his defensive half now two Defenders and a Goalie) then whistled offside.
 * Pushing A player pushes the opponent is not hard in the back.
 * Stabling: A player or a team slows the game to stay ahead and the opponent to frustrate (case: in the fourth quarter, Team Blue 9-8 before and decides to throw the ball in the defensive half ever on without an attack to run).
 * Illegal start: A wingman runs before the whistle on the wing line.
 * Time Delay: A Goalie has the ball in his stick and remains more than four seconds standing in the crease.
 * Warding: A ball carrier holds his stick with one hand and used his other hand to push the opponent away.

Personal fouls [ edit ]

 * Slashing: A player hits his opponent on the hands that hold the stick or his opponent injuring with intent.
 * Tripping: A player leaves his opponent intentionally tripping.
 * Cross Checking: A player performs a check with his hands, but the gloves are not pressed together.
 * Unsportsmanlike conduct: A player swears or curses on the field, or argues with the referee.
 * Unnecessary roughness: A player uses (much) more power than is needed to get the ball (case: Players checked at two meters from an organized hockey off the field, legally the ball carrier, so attacking it at the hockey goal)
 * Illegal body checking: Body Check the opponent on the head, in the back, below the hips or if the opponent is more than 3 meters from the ball away.
 * Illegal stick: The stick is made ​​in such a way that it is difficult to get the ball (case: the stick of pocket is too deep)
 * Illegal Equipment: The gloves are tailored in such a way that endangers the safety of the player in danger.

[Women's lacrosse edit ]
Women's lacrosse is unlike men's lacrosse is a non-contact sport. There may in this variant only under certain conditions will be checked on the stick. Until 1930 the same rules for men and women, since only the rules in the men adapted to the full-contact sport as it is now.

Box lacrosse [ edit ]
Box lacrosse: Calgary Roughnecks vs.Toronto Rock

Box lacrosse (box) is the indoor form of lacrosse and is played on reclaimed or covered hockey field, where the boundaries of the field are determined by the boarding of plexiglass dasherboards called. In a boxing match two teams against each other, each team has 6 players.

The rules of box lacrosse differ in some ways from those of veldlacrosse. [3] The objective is smaller: about 145 centimeters wide and 125 centimeters high, and the Goalie carries more protection. Nor should cross checks are carried out, while this is a Personal Foul by veldlacrosse. At the time a party gets the ball, they have to make a shot on goal within 30 seconds. The duration of a match is also different from veldlacrosse: instead of the 4x20 minutes of veldlacrosse, a boxing match has 3 periods of 20 minutes.

Box lacrosse is played mainly in Canada. Belgium and the Netherlands have not box lacrossewedstrijden or competitions.