Field lacrosse Field lacrosse Field lacrosse is a full contact outdoor men's sport played with ten players on each team. The sport originated among Native Americans, and the modern rules of field lacrosse were initially codified by Canadian William George Beers in 1867. Field lacrosse is one of three major versions of lacrosse played internationally. The other versions, women's lacrosse (established in the 1890s) and box lacrosse (originated in the 1930s), are played under significantly different rules. The object of the game is to use a lacrosse stick, or crosse, to catch, carry, and pass a solid rubber ball in an effort
A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick) to the film release of "A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick)", the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, and the title is a play on the phrase "at Her Majesty's pleasure". In America, the film was originally called "Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe". The film consists of both on-stage and back-stage footage, taken from all three nights of the run (1 –3 April 1976). Luff and Lewis collaborated on producing the successor show - video-taped in 1977 as "The Mermaid Frolics". Then Cleese and Lewis