History of field hockey a winter activity. They experimented with a ‘stick’ game, based loosely on the rules of association football. Teddington played the game on the smooth outfield of their cricket pitch and used a cricket ball, so allowing smooth and predictable motion. By 1874 they had begun to draw up rules for their game, including banning the raising of the stick above shoulder height and stipulating that a shot at goal must take place within the circle in front of it. An association was formed in 1875, which dissolved after seven years, but in 1886 the Hockey Association was formed by seven
Footscray-Edgewater Cricket Club Footscray-Edgewater Cricket Club Footscray-Edgewater Cricket Club is an Australian cricket team competing in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition. The Footscray Edgewater Cricket Club (then the Footscray Cricket Club) was founded in 1883 and for the first 113 years of its existence was located at the Western Oval until 1996 when combined pressure exerted by the Footscray Football Club and state-government-appointed commissioners to the City of Maribyrnong saw the club relocated to the Mervyn G. Hughes Oval. The Footscray Cricket Club produced the most Australian Test players of any Melbourne based district cricket club. Footscray's Test representatives in order of debut