Welcome to the Hockeythink Lacrosse page. As you may know, lacrosse was Canada's official national sport for some time, before hockey was promoted to share the honour. The history of lacrosse is just as colourful, just as long, and just as important as that of hockey.

What's a lacrosse page doing on a hockey site?

Hockey and lacrosse are both national sports of Canada, and deserve equal respect. On top of that, in the early days many big-name hockey players such as Newsy Lalonde played lacrosse during the summer, and hockey during the winter. The two games share many similarities, with enough differences to make them distinct. And most importantly, I felt like it.

Lacrosse research on the internet

In April of 2002 I founded the Society for Lacrosse Research. If you at all interested in the history of this great sport, please join as soon as possible. It's free! Information on joining up is available on the website. The SCR is currently made up of around 20 people, but they're some of the sharpest guys you'd ever want to meet. There is a mailing list for lacrosse discussions, and several editions of the newsletter have already been published. There is also a stats archive.

If you looking for lacrosse history online, really the first thing you should do is to visit SLR member Paul Whiteside's wonderful Thistles Forever history site, covering the history of lacrosse, beginning in the 19th century. This site is to lacrosse history as a Brian McFarlane book is to hockey history, except that it doesn't ignore the early days, gives good stats, is well-written and goes into some depth. So maybe it's not that much like a McFarlane book...