Princeton Hawkey
Hi I've found more references to hockey being played at Princeton in 1786 when it was called Shinny Hawkey or Hurley.
"Princeton, however, was more fond of "shinny," known also as "hawkey" and
hurley," played with a hard ball and sticks having curved ends. The goals
consisted of North College and the fence on the south side of the "campus."
"The diary of 1786 contains several valuable allusions to College sports " hockey on Stony Brook in winter, shinny, quoits, ' ' baste ball, ' ' and *' prison baste " on the campus in the spring and summer.''
"In the winter when the weather was cold and the ice firm the student might tuck *his skates under his arm and set out for Stony Brook or the Millstone River.*If he were from the north and so at home on the ice, he often joined the other boys in a game played with a ball, *possibly hockey."
1786, Princeton Library.
The Deke Quarterly - Volume 51, Issue 2 - Page 73
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1933 - Snippet view -
p.206-7. Princeton - Forgotten Books
www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Princeton_1000697762/227
Princeton, 1746-1896 [by] Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker - Page 194
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