The sport of

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was played at the 1904 Summer Olympics, which marked the first time that lacrosse had been featured at the Olympic Games. Three teams participated — two from

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and one from the

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. One of the Canadian teams consisted entirely of

Mohawk nation The Mohawk people ( moh, Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and norther ...

players. The victorious Shamrock Lacrosse Team is more commonly known as the Winnipeg Shamrocks. A second American team, the Brooklyn Crescents, was originally slated to round out the field but did not participate. They were scheduled to play a semi-final against the Shamrocks, but arrived too late and were disqualified.

Medal table

Medal summary

Results

Rosters

Shamrock Lacrosse Team

* Élie Blanchard * William Brennaugh * George Bretz * William Burns * George Cattanach * George Cloutier * Sandy Cowan * Jack Flett * Benjamin Jamieson * Hilliard Laidlaw * Hilliard Lyle *William F. L. Orris * Lawrence Pentland Sources:

St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association

*J. W. Dowling *W. R. Gibson * Hugh Grogan *Philip Hess *

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* Albert Lehman * William Murphy * William Partridge * George Passmore * William T. Passmore *W. J. Ross * Jack Sullivan * Albert Venn *A. M. Woods Source:

Mohawk Indians

* Black Hawk *

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Almighty Voice Competitor for Canada Almighty Voice, also known as Jacob Jamieson or Jimerson (February 19, 1873 - August 15, 1960), was a Canadian lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldes ...

Flat Iron Competitor for Canada Flat Iron was a First Nations lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocea ...

Spotted Tail Spotted Tail (Siŋté Glešká pronounced ''gleh-shka''; birth name T'at'aŋka Napsíca "Jumping Buffalo"Ingham (2013) uses 'c' to represent 'č'. ); born c. 1823 – died August 5, 1881) was a Brulé Lakota tribal chief. Although a great warr ...

* Half Moon *

Lightfoot Lightfoot may refer to: * Lightfoot (surname) * Lightfoot (lacrosse), Native American lacrosse player * Lightfoot, Virginia, an area of York County that is west of Williamsburg, VA * Operation Lightfoot, part of the Second Battle of El Alamein * ...

* Snake Eater *

Red Jacket Red Jacket (known as ''Otetiani'' in his youth and ''Sagoyewatha'' eeper Awake''Sa-go-ye-wa-tha'' as an adult because of his oratorical skills) (c. 1750–January 20, 1830) was a Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan, based in Western New York ...

* Night Hawk * Man Afraid Soap * Rain in Face “Man Afraid of Soap” was also known as Freeman Joseph Isaacs, the father of Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, Bill Isaacs. The English names of those players were Joe Crawford, Philip Jackson, Eli Warner, Amos Obediah, Thomas Will. Berman L. Snow, L. Bumbary, J. B. Eaver, Eli Martin, Sandy Turkey, Austin Bill, W. E. Martin, Jacob Jamieson, Eli Henry, Joe Clark, Frank Seneca, Charlie Johnon and Robert Lottridge.

References

External links

* * {{Lacrosse at the Summer Olympics 1904 Summer Olympics events 1904s

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1904 in lacrosse Men's events at the 1904 Summer Olympics