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La Crosse - America's

Oldest Game

Author: Unknown

A visitor from another planet would be perplexed

and perhaps even frightened by the odd looking

sticks with a strange net attached, being twirled

by some athletes today.

Is it a butterfly net? A crab net? A big swatter?

No, just a lacrosse stick, the primary equipment

(along with a hard rubber ball) of a lacrosse

player, who plays the oldest game in the North

American continent.

Lacrosse - Little Brother of War

With Amanda Smith Transcript from National Radio,

Australia Broadcast Corporation

5/7/2002

Guests on this program:

Thomas Vennum - Historian/Author Lacrosse - Little

Brother of War;;Ed Burman - Iroquios player ;Oren

Lyons - Faithkeeper of the Onondaga, member of

Lacrosse Hall of Fame;Doug Fox - former captain

of the Australian lacrosse team View

Article

"Little Brother of

War"

By Adele Conover

Lacrosse - Little

Brother of War

Smithsonian Magazine

December 1997

Lacrosse sticks were tools of the trade in

a rugged Indian game now growing popular around

the world