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THE MAKING OF A ZOG...

Most people are aware that King's College School of Windsor, Ontario adapted the Irish field game of Hurley to the ice of Long Pond and created "Ice Hurley" in the late 1700's. This game developed through the 1850's and subsequently took the form of the sport we know today. What isn't realized is that the men of King's College simply took a game that has been played for over 5000 years and organized it into the game we know today. The first group of people to play hockey were actually the Zoglavikon. This group was a prehistoric tribe who lived in the upper Nortwest Territories of Northern Canada. Recent excavations from this area by British and American archelogists have unveiled cave drawings showing pre-historic man hitting round objects with a stick into a cave opening. The researchers have dated the drawings to the last ice age. Since this particular site was found to be at the edge of a pond, it is surmised that early man must practiced this activity on the many frozen ponds as a form of amusement, and figures to be the earliest documented evidence of the game we now know as Ice Hockey.

In the spring of 1998, three college cohorts decided to form a men's league hockey team.

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