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Modern field hockey developed in
19th century England from earlier
forms of the game which included
a curved stick and a ball.
Originally, the game was played
with cricket balls, until special balls
were developed. The ancient Irish
game of hurling is probably a
forerunner of field hockey. While
the English dominated the earliest
Olympics, by 1928 India had
become the preeminent field
hockey team, winning 6
consecutive Gold Medals. The
Indian stick, made of mulberry,
with its thin handle and tight bend,
contrasted with the traditional
English stick made of ash, a wood
that cannot be as successfully
compressed. By 1948, the Indian
stick had supplanted the English
one in England and all over the
world. After their phenomenal run,
India was defeated, in 1960, by
Pakistan, a country that had been
carved from India in 1947. The
Pakistanis have taken Gold in Field
Hockey three times, and these are
the only Gold Medals ever won by
that country.