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The McGill University Hockey Club, the first ice hockey club, was founded in 1877 [27] (followed by the Quebec Hockey Club in 1878 and the Montreal Victorias in 1881). [28] In 1880, the number of players per side was reduced from nine to seven. [1] An ice hockey game held at McGill University in 1884
The game set the attendance record for ice hockey games. The attendance record for an ice hockey game was set on December 11, 2010, when the University of Michigan's men's ice hockey team faced cross-state rival Michigan State in an event billed as "The Big Chill at the Big House".
Ice hockey is the national sport of Latvia [19] and the national winter sport of Canada. [20] Ice hockey is played at a number of levels, by all ages. The governing body of international play is the 77-member International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Men's ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the 1920 ...
Ice hockey is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. A men's ice hockey tournament has been held every Winter Olympics (starting in 1924); an ice hockey tournament was also held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. [1] From 1920 to 1968, the Olympics also acted as the Ice Hockey World Championships, and the two events occurred ...
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Most of these games were staged as special events, and all but one were played in the 21st century. Attendance in the 30,000 range was once quite common for major international matches held outdoors in the 1940s and 50s in Moscow's Lenin Stadium. Figures of this type are still common in bandy, a relative of ice hockey played outdoors.
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the sport's governing body, was created on 15 May 1908 under the name Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG). [5] In 1908, organized ice hockey was still relatively new; the first organized indoor ice hockey game took place on 3 March 1875 at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink. [6]
At the 1914 Olympic Congress in Paris, ice hockey was added to the list of optional sports that Olympics organizers could include. [7] The decision to include ice hockey for the 1920 Summer Olympics was made in January, three months before the start of the Games. [8] Several occurrences led to the sport's inclusion in the programme.