First?

In an effort to add more detail to what I already know about early field hockey at the YMCA Training School (now known as Springfield College), I've been scouring that institution's collection of digitized publications from the 1890s and 1900s. In doing so I think I may have pinned down the first organized college field hockey game ever played in the United States.

But wait, there's more...

As described in my most recent post, I now know that men were playing field hockey at Springfield College in the 1890s. But can I at least say with certainty that no women played the sport at a U.S. college before Constance Applebee’s arrival in 1901? Maybe not.