• 1636 - The timeline for lacrosse starts when the Jesuit Missionary Jean de Brebeuf is the first to document the game of lacrosse.

• 1794 - The Seneca and Mohawks created the first basic rules.

• 1834 - The Caughnawaga Indians brought the game to Montreal, the games were reported in the newspaper and for the first time white men were interested in the sport.

• 1876 - Queen Victoria watched and "endorses" a lacrosse game in Windsor, England. New York University is the first college in the United States to establish a lacrosse team.

• 1881 - The first intercollegiate tournament is held at Westchester Polo Grounds in New York.

• 1890 - The first women's lacrosse game is played at St. Leonard's School in St. Andrew's, Scotland.

• 1904 -.Lacrosse was first played as an exhibition sport in the Olympics in St. Louis. This is also when the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse League is formed.

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•1931 - The United States Women's Lacrosse Association (USWLA) is formed as the rule-making body for women's lacrosse.

• 1985 - The Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Foundation becomes the first of many regional chapters of The Lacrosse Foundation. The Japan Lacrosse Association is formed. The major Indoor Lacrosse League revives professional box lacrosse in Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.

•After that nothing really exciting happened in the Lacrosse timeline, other then the world cup and world championship games were played and watched by thousands of people.

Door Guard or Goalie Stick

Traditionally the Iroquois played lacrosse with a curved wooden stick, that had a woven net at one end and a ball. The ball was made from deerskin or the knot of a tree.

•The wooden lacrosse sticks were hand-carved from hickory. The length of the stick is about 48 inches. • selecting straight trees with few knots •The curved end off the traditional wooden stick has a webbed network that is woven in a way to create a pocket. The pocket is used to help catch, carry and through the ball.• The webbing originally was made from slippery elm bark that was boiled down until it was soft enough to be twisted and form lacing for the webbing.•Today the web, even in the traditional stick, is made from nylon, leather, and sinew

• FACT: in 1797, one recorded Iroquois lacrosse game was played with over 600 players per team, and was played across miles. Sometimes they would play while traveling from one village to the next.

•According to US Lacrosse rules, the lacrosse stick can be made of the following basic materials: "composite, metal alloy (handle only), rubber, wood, leather, fiberglass, nylon, plastic. The stick also must not have sharp parts or edges.

•The NCAA requires that all heads be a minimum of 3 inches wide at 1.25 and 3 inches above the base of the head, a minimum of 3.5 inches wide further up the head and a minimum of 6 inches wide at the top of the head

• The NLL (The National Lacrosse League),is a lot more strict than the NCAA. There are regulations concerning the length and the width of the stick, the pocket depth, material, etc.

NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

OFFICIAL RULES

NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

OFFICIAL RULES

NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

OFFICIAL RULES

NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

OFFICIAL RULES

Rule 31: LACROSSE STICK

31.1 STICK LENGTH - The lacrosse stick shall be an overallfixed length of forty (40”) to forty-six inches (46”) except thegoalkeeper’s lacrosse stick.31.2 STICK WIDTH - The head of the lacrosse stick shall measurebetween four and one-half inches (4 1/2”) and seven inches(7”) at its widest point, inside measurement except for thegoalkeeper’s lacrosse stick.31.3 POCKET DEPTH - The depth of the pocket shall not exceedfive inches (5”) measured from the outside edge of the head.Nothing may be added to or attached to the outside of theStick33.3 STICK COLOR - The lacrosse stick shall be white or uniformlyconform to the specific team colors or meet sponsorshiprequirements as specified by the NLL.33.4 POCKET COLOR - The color of the pocket shall remain consistentwith the color issued by the manufacturer or sponsor of thestick and approved by the NLL. Pockets shall not be painted