[NU Sports] lacrosse

[prplehaze at insightbb.com]

There is no checking allowed in women's lacrosse but there is body checking in
men's.  Therefore, the men wear shoulder pads and the women don't.  If you watch
the men play, you will see a lot of body checking, stick checking and sticks
smacking at sticks, balls and upper bodys.  That is not allowed in women's
lacrosse.  I guess it's a sexist thing about what women's bodies can stand or
maybe when the women sat down to write their rules they decided they didn't want
the contact.  I don't know why it's that way, it just is.

--
Mark Ament
SportsBiz
http://www.thesportsbizblog.blogspot.com
sportsbiz at gmail.com


> Okay, everyone, I have a lacrosse question.  I know nothing about the 
> sport, but now that Jeff has given us a history lesson, I'm in (some of 
> you might recall that I like history).  Here's my question:  on TV, I've 
> noticed that male lacrosse players wear helmets, but female players only 
> wear eyeguards.  Why?
> 
> Jeff Beamsley wrote:
> 
> >You are only one of a long line of folks to be fascinated by the game.
> >
> >In 1763 some clever Native Americans captured Fort Michilimackinac in
> >Northern Michigan by playing lacrosse.  During the game, they hit the ball
> >inside the stockade's open gates.  When the garrison allowed the players to
> >run in to retrieve the ball, the players grabbed weapons hidden in the
> >clothing of the women watching the game, overwhelmed the guards and took
> >over the Fort.  
> >
> >This was part of a very successful military offensive organized by Pontiac
> >which took over every British outpost in the west except Fort Detroit and
> >Fort Pitt.  The only reason they had to give up the sieges at these last two
> >outposts is that the French broke their promise to resupply the Indian army
> >as winter approached.  It took the British three years to finally beat
> >Pontiac who was later murdered by a British-paid assassin named Black Dog.  
> >
> >Jef
> >
> 
> 
> 
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