In the case of hockey and grass hockey, there are 11 players in each team (with gates), in case of a hockey heater, 6 players (the team, except the goalkeeper, changes constantly during the game). Game time is 90, 70 (1 break) and 60 minutes respectively (so-called pure time, with 2 breaks).
Hockey has been known for a while. c.b. In the II millennium, in Egypt, Persia, Greece, the United States of America, Japan, Europe, in the mid-nineteenth century. Since 1908 (except for 1912 and 1924) hockey competitions (men’s) have been included in the Olympic Games Registration, from 1980 women’s teams have also been included. In 1924 the International Ice Hockey Federation was established.
The word hockey itself is of unknown origin. One supposition is that it is a derivative of hoquet, a Middle French word for a shepherd’s stave. The curved, or «hooked» ends of the sticks used for hockey would indeed have resembled these staves. Another supposition derives from the known use of cork bungs, (stoppers) in place of wooden balls to play the game. The stoppers came from barrels containing «hock» ale, also called «hocky».
bas relief approx. 600 BC, in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from approximately 600 BC in Ancient Greece, where the game may have been called kerētízein or (κερητίζειν) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick (kéras, κέρας). In Inner Mongolia, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1,000 years.
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