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In 1860, players started using a puck

instead of a ball.

Women have been playing hockey

for at least 130 years. In 1892, the first

organized women’s teams began playing

in Barrie, Ontario. Two years later, the

first women’s college team formed. They

played at Queen’s University in Kingston,

Ontario. The local archbishop did not

want women to play hockey. But the team

ignored him. Two more college teams

formed in 1896.

During World War I (1914–1918),

women’s hockey became more popular

than ever. More than 400,000 Canadian

men were fighting in Europe. As a result,

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