Lacrosse: The National Game of Canada

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Lacrosse: The National Game of Canada (1879)
by William George Beers

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Text of the 1879 New Edition which included the revised and amended Laws of Lacrosse as well as the Constitution of the National Lacrosse Association of Canada. The original was published in 1869.

An errata included with the 1875 London edition corrected the following errors (the errors were not corrected in the 1879 New Edition):

On page 10 of the Preface, "1861" should read "1860"
On page 92, "expirment" (text actually reads "expeirment") should read "experiment"
On page 94, "disposi-" should read "disposition"
On page 193, "followy our" should read "follow your"
On page 195, "success" should read "sweep"
On page 195, "bath has passe" should read "ball has passed"

The corrections have been marked using tooltips.

640135Lacrosse: The National Game of Canada1879William George Beers

PUBLISHED WITH THE SANCTION OF THE NATIONAL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION
OF CANADA.

LACROSSE:

THE

NATIONAL GAME OF CANADA.

By W. G. BEERS.

New Edition.

Containing the Laws of the Game as recently amended, etc.

MONTREAL:
DAWSON BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

1879.

Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,
by Dawson Brothers, in the Office of the Minister of
Agriculture.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE		v
CHAP. I.	THE ORIGIN OF LACROSSE	1
CHAP. II.	THE ORIGINAL GAME	7
CHAP. III.	GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE PRESENT GAME	32
	SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT	51
	THE NATIONAL GAME OF CANADA	57
CHAP. IV.	HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF LACROSSE	60
CHAP. V.	MATERIALS FOR PLAY; THE CROSSE, &c.—RUNNING, TRAINING	76
CHAP. VI.	POSTING AND DIRECTING THE PLAYERS	90
CHAP. VII.	FACING	97
CHAP. VIII.	THROWING THE BALL	106
CHAP. IX.	CATCHING AND CARRYING THE BALL	134
CHAP. X.	DODGING AND CHECKING	146
CHAP. XI.	PICKING UP, TIPPING, FRISKING, &c	180
CHAP. XII.	FIELDING	189
CHAP. XIII.	GOAL-KEEPING	212
APPENDIX—THE LAWS OF LACROSSE		251

KEY TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS.


		Names.	Club.	Locality.		Representation.
1	{	N. H. Hughes,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Facing.
1	{	L. Cushing Jr.	Montreal	Montreal	}	Facing.
2		E. Cluff,	Ottawa	Ottawa		Picking up.
3		W. Macfariane	Chebucto	Halifax		Catching.
4		W. D. Otter,	Toronto	Toronto		Flat-catch.
5		W. L. Maltby	Montreal	Montreal		Long-throw.
6		J. R. Middlemiss,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Checking
7	{	J. B. Hutchison,	Crescent	Montreal	}	Checking
7	{	Alex. M. Davidson,	Crescent	Montreal	}	Checking
8	{	S. R. MacDonald,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Checking
8	{	R. Tate,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Dodging and
9	{	E. A. Whitehead,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Checking.
9	{	T. Ralston,	St. John	St. John, N.B.	}	Ditto.
10	{	J. Watson,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Ditto.
10	{	F. Dowd,	Montreal	Montreal
11		A. Grant,	Montreal	Montreal		Throwing.
12	{	S. Stephenson,	Dominion	Montreal	}	Throwing and
12	{	W. G. Beers,	Montreal	Montreal	}	Goal-keeping.

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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