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Lacrosse

When people think of sports related to the United States, many people think of baseball, basketball, and American football. Although all these sports were established in America, the one sport that came before them all was lacrosse. Lacrosse is considered to be America’s first sport. It was first invented by the Native Americans well over a century ago and then adapted to be part of the French and Canadian cultures as well.

Lacrosse is a sport that has many qualities of many other sports. It is somewhat of a combination of basketball, soccer, and hockey. It is a game that requires speed, coordination, quickness, and agility. It is a game that is full of long field sprints with precision passing and dodging.

Lacrosse was invented by the Native Americans in the early 1500’s as a part of their religion. It was played to as a way to help resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and strengthen the men of the tribes. To the natives, lacrosse is still known as ‘the creators game” because it was also used to help prepare them for war. In early stories of lacrosse, it told of games with more than 1,000 players on each team from the same or different tribes. They would take turns playing in the violent contests on a field anywhere fro

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