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Show Origin cf Lacrosse The game of lacrosse can trace Its origin to the Algonquin Indians, and its name was first uttered by the Frenchman, Charlevoix, according to Donald W. White, writing in the Sportsman. Boston. When the explorer was ascending ' - the St. Lawrence he saw the game played by a iribe of Indians near Quebec. Que-bec. The stb'k used In the game appeared ap-peared to hitn to be liki a bishop's crosier, and the name "la crosse" was ' suggested. As played by the Indians, lacrosse was almost a part of their religion. Days of fasting preceded the games played by two teams of rival tribes, and the players subjected themselves to tortures of the severest kind, inflicted in-flicted by the medicine men. |