This document is the American field hockey rules from 1900 at Springfield College, written by James Huff McCurdy. The document includes 17 rules similar to the document titled American field hockey rules 1899-00. J.H. McCurdy is typed at the top of the document and the document is five pages. There are some small tears around the edges and the left side of each pages looks like this document was bound at an earlier point in time. Written on the back of the last page is 362.2.Lawn hockey was introduced to the Springfield Training School by Dr. McCurdy in the fall of 1896, and after a season of play the English rules were adopted. As of 1903, the school was the only place in the country to play the English game. The field is a little smaller than a football field. For more information on lawn hockey rules, see “The Games of Lawn Hockey, Tether Ball, Golf-croquet, Hand Tennis, Volley Ball, Hand Polo, Wicket Polo, Laws of Badminton, Drawing Room Hockey, Garden Hockey,” published by the American Sports Publishing Company (New York, New York) in 1903
