Talk:Indoor lacrosse

Aren't some major differences also:

Box lacrosse uses a smooth concrete floor while indoor uses the green carpet?
Indoor has 4x15min quarters which box has 3x20min periods (like ice hockey)?

Lukeoz 16:34, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A ZEBRA IS A ZEBRA

The author of the article has attempted to legitimize indoor lacrosse as being unique form of Canadian Box Lacrosse. In fact, Box Lacrosse and Indoor Lacrosse are two different names for the same sport.

The name Indoor Lacrosse is a hybrid name for the game box lacrosse. Box Lacrosse was creeated in Canada and first played around 1932. It was exported to Australia by a Canadian around the same time period.

My understanding is that the name of Indoor Lacrosse was adopted in the United States by professional leagues, to enhance the marketability of the sport to fans unfamiliar with the sport.

A comment to Lukeoz:

1. The sport has been played more recently in Canada by some teams on carpeted floors.

2. The game of box lacrosse, for the first 20 some years of its life was a 4 quarter game. The time frame of the game came, when hockey arenas began installing clocks for hockey which measured time by 3, 20 minute periods. Since the same arenas were used for box lacrosse and hockey - it made sense for box lacrosse to change its time structure.

3. I saw an exhibition game played on boards over ice, in Canada in the 1960's.

4. Two Canadian box lacrosse teams play on an astroturf surface.

5. The New Westminster Salmonbellies, box lacrosse team is played on a hardwood floor in Queens Park Arena, British Columbia.

Lots of sports develop mutated rules and identities. Indoor Lacorossed is no o exception. North American Football is simply called football, although there are differences between the Canadian game and the American game in rules, and field sizes.

Different hockey leagues have different rules and indeed different sized ice surfaces.

Indoor Lacrosse is Box Lacrosse. It is a nothing more than a mutation in name. And, since the name Indoor Lacrosse is used in the United States, it bears an implication that it is a uniquely American form of the game.

Call it what you like. But, a zebra is a zebra, whether it is an animal with black and white stripe or white and black stripes.

Baggy

I agree, the articles should be merged into just "box lacrosse". We should state that it's also known as indoor lacrosse, but we could say that box is played in a hockey arena -- sometimes on a concrete floor, and sometimes on astroturf over the concrete. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 01:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]