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Box hockey is an active hand game played between two people with sticks, a puck and a compartmented box (typically long), and typically played outdoors. The object of the game is to move a hockey puck through the center dividers, of the box, out through a hole placed at each end of the box, also known as the goal. The two players face one another on either side of the box, and each attempts to move the puck to their left. If a player succeeds in getting the puck to exit the box through the goal, the player scores one point (or goal). The first player to score the predetermined number of goals wins the game. ==History== Box hockey has little known origin, but the game has been around since at least the late 19th century, as described in various game books, such as ''Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gym'' (Jessie H. Bancroft, 1913) and ''400 Games for School, Home, and Playground'' (F.A. Owen Pub. Co., 1920). Box Hockey was listed as the "Game of the Month" as published in the 1914 Volume 2 of the "Recreational helps" by the New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology with the following description: "Box hockey is an excellent active game for picnics camps and playgrounds. It can also be adapted to indoor recreation if the floor upon which it is played is well padded with old rugs to prevent being damaged with the hockey sticks." Around 1937, Milton Bradley sold a box hockey game (model No. 4125).〔"AGCA-The Game Catalog, 8th Edition, Oct. 1998〕 By the late 1930s and into the 1940s, it was not uncommon for towns to host youth box hockey tournaments, such as in Reading, Pennsylvania, where the winners of the Essick Playground and Oakbrook were reported by the local newspaper in the July 11, 1939, July 4, 1941 and June 29, 1949 issues of the ''Reading Eagle''. By the 1950s, Sears & Roebuck was selling a mass-produced version of box hockey for 50 cents.〔The Milwaukee Journal - Aug 8, 1950〕 In the mid-1950s adult box hockey clubs in Eugene, Oregon battled for the title "Springfield Box Hockey service club champions".〔Eugene Register-Guard - Mar 7, 1954〕 In the mid-1950s, Larry Best, Director of Recreation for the Milton Hershey School for Boys in Hershey, PA (the Milton Hershey School was established in 1909 by Milton S. Hershey), in search of an activity that would be healthy, active and fun for the students, became aware of the game BOX HOCKEY and introduced it to the students as part of their summer recreation program. Individual play as well as school tournaments were promoted, and Box Hockey is still an active program at the school with almost 75 student homes (approx. 16 students per home) each having a game set today, manufactured by Box Hockey International, Inc.〔http://www.box-hockey.com〕 World Wide Games, Inc. in Delaware, Ohio, manufactured the suitcase-style hockey box in 1965; one is on display at the Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games.〔http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/hockey/boxhockey/index.html〕 In the mid-1970s to early 1980s, box hockey had a major resurgence in the United States, as a part of the dramatic increase in funding and staffing in municipal recreation and parks departments across the country to reduce youth crime and violence that was prevalent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, by providing activities to keep teenagers active and social.〔http://rptsweb.tamu.edu/Faculty/Witt/conpubs/bembry98.htm〕 In 1994, Andy Brody founded Box Hockey International and started to market and mass-produce the larger floor version.〔http://www.box-hockey.com/〕 This variant of the game features multiple walls with staggered "house holes" through which the puck must be passed to reach either goal. Today, many children play the larger floor version in summer camps throughout the upper part of North America, such as Triumphant Life Camp in Larabee Valley, California,〔http://www.tlcamp.com/attractions〕 Wilderness Northwest on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state,〔http://www.wildernessnw.org/〕 and Shady Hollow Campground in Brainerd, Minnesota.〔http://www.shadyhollowresort.com/〕 Box hockey is also used for agility training in hockey schools and camps throughout Canada and the U.S.〔 "Coaches Corner", Hyland Hills Hockey Association, Canadian Hockey Video Series (noted "dryland exercises" for stickhandling skills, box hockey), webpage: (HHHA82 ). 〕 Handmade suitcase-style box hockey games are still available at crafts events like the Lowell Folk Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. Each year they also have a dozen or so set up for playing during the festivities.〔http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/family.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Box hockey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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