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The image above is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the All-Pittsburgh ice hockey team at St. Nicholas Rink, New York, where the team played exhibition games against St. Nicholas Athletic Club and New York Athletic Club on February 16 and 17, 1900. The All-Pittsburgh players were selected from the four teams of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. Check out those striped sweaters with the Giant "P" on the front! The publisher of the original photo was New York, American sports publishing company.
More text after the image state: "SPALDING S ATITLETK LIF.RARV. II and a bat or a clul), were the essential requisites of the game, andthe object was to knock the ball to a certain boundary line and tliere-by score a point. The original Scotch shinty resembled it more closelythan didhurley or English hockey, but savored a trifle more of Canadaswinter sport, although, in the mildest of sarcasm, it is not probablethat the votaries of the former sport would find anything of excite-ment in ours. It was played on the hard, sandy sea-beach, with twoor three hundred on each side, and their materials, or rather weapons,consisted of roots of trees, with a hard wood knob for a ball. Historydoes not relate the number of casualties that occurred in thesematches, of which the most important took place on New Years day,but if our imagination be given scope the effect is anything butpleasant. Of all the games that developed from the old Reman sport theBritish hockey alo.e shaped the destiny of ours. There can be but little doubt but"
