Box lacrosse The roots of indoor lacrosse are obscure, but its invention has been attributed to one Paddy Brennan, a field lacrosse player and referee from Montreal, who, being annoyed by the constant slowing of play from balls going out of bounds in the field game, experimented with indoor games at the Mount Royal Arena during the early 1920s. Joseph Cattarinich and Leo Dandurand, owners of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens in the 1920s, led the participating ice hockey arena owners to introduce the new sport. In the 1930s, 6 v 6 indoor lacrosse came to be played in the summer
McGill Redmen Lacrosse McGill Redmen Lacrosse The McGill Redmen Lacrosse team is a men's varsity sports team at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. McGill competes in the CUFLA East conference versus Bishop's University, Carleton University, Nipissing University, University of Ottawa, Trent University and Queen's University. The hybrid Canadian-box-American-field lacrosse program includes student-athletes recruited from across Canada and the US. The team plays home games in McGill's Percival Molson Memorial Stadium. The Redmen received the Harry Griffith's Award in 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2015. The team won eight Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association CUFLA East conference titles in 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,