It came from India and developed slower in today's modern day hockey, as for sport like ice hockey and other types of hockey's came from Canada.
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Pakistan's first medal in the Olympics (silver) came in field hockey at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. Pakistan's first gold medal came at the 1960 Games in Rome in field hockey.
Field Hockey and any sort of ice based sport (figure skating, etc.)
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Turf hockey is field hockey.
It means nothing in field hockey.
To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a slide in field hockey.
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It is a mixture of field hockey's rules and lacrosses rules.
Click on the link to your right for the history of field hockey.