Box Hockey

Box hockey is an active game played with a five sided box, a puck, sticks and played outdoors. Its main objective is to shift the hockey puck from the box's centre through holes placed at the box's each end, also called the goal.

Every player faces each other on either side of the box, attempting to move the puck to the left portion. If a player succeeds in making the puck to leave the box through the goal, the player scores a point.

The first player who gets to score the set goal amount wins.

Box hockey History

The origin of this game is mired as a mystery. However, the game has gone around right from the late nineteenth century. Box hockey had witnessed huge resurgence in United States, right from the mid 70s to early 80s. This was a part of the dramatic rise of staffing and funding to the Parks and Recreations departments across the country to reduce the then prevalent youth violence.

Many kids, from Maine to Fairbanks, Alaska, remember playing this game in summer during this time. Andy Brody, in 1994, established Box Hockey International, beginning to mass produce and market the bigger floor version. You can still purchase handmade suitcase type games at the Lowell Festival even today.

They also have a dozen or so setup each year to play during festive occasions. Box hockey has also been used for agility training in camps and hockey schools throughout U.S. and Canada.

Equipments used

Below are the equipments required to play the game:-

- Box - Nearly 3 foot wide x 1 foot high x 8 foot long high constructed three plywood dividers. Two shortened hockey sticks.

- A single hockey puck - The best one for box hockey is a floor hockey puck.

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