conurbation adopted association football. However, the influences on Manchester's sporting activities were multifaceted and varied and it was actually rugby football that was perceived as the conurbation's leading team sport between 1870 and 1900, while lacrosse was promoted as a viable alternative...
Jesuit missionaries documented the sport of lacrosse in the 17th century in what is now Canada. The Mohawk people were reported playing a game with a wooden ball and a stick with a hoop net in 1757. Almost exactly 100 years later, dentist William George Beers founded the Montreal Lacrosse...