Persuasive Essay: Lacrosse Should Be For Everyone

Lacrosse Should Be For Everyone Growing up I learned that not many people in Merced County actually know what lacrosse is. Lacrosse is a field sport, just like soccer; there are goal areas on both sides of the field. Players have chest pads a helmet like football and a lacrosse stick. Most people do not know that today 's Lacrosse was influenced by a game that the Native Americans played. Lacrosse is a popular sport in other countries and in private schools, does not cost as much as football or other sports that nearly all schools have and there is no reason it should not be available to every school. Lacrosse is a great sport; it takes a lot of hand eye coordination, conditioning, strategy, and teamwork for a team to do great. Lacrosse …show more content…
Although some try to connect the Native American game to the rubber ball games of the Mesoamerica. The number one rule of the Native Americans is still enforced in today game when it comes to lacrosse, the ball cannot be handled with hands only with the stick. There is not much solid data from the early times of lacrosse, many tribes could have had different rules that changed as the game passed form tribe to tribe and evolved over time. Data that is consistent in all of the reports are "team size, equipment used, the durations of games, and length of playing fields but tell us almost nothing about stickhandling, games strategy, or the rules of play" written by Thomas Vennum Jr. in American Indian Lacrosse; Little Brother of War. In Vennums book, he talks about how James Mooney, who is a American Anthropologist, has found information on Eastern Cherokee games including its basis, rituals, rules, and "manner of …show more content…
The equipment that was listed for football was the helmet, pads, cleats, pants, and gloves. Lacrosse on the other had took some time because there is a goalie position, which needs some heavy equipment to not get hurt by the lacrosse ball since the ball, is pretty much thrown at the goalie to try and get it past him. The prices for lacrosse are for the most expensive items in that category, which is not that bad considering there are only nineteen players on a team. Lacrosse has a lot more equipment than football while including the goalie. The equipment are fully build sticks or head and shaft, cleats, gloves, pads, helmets for the other players. The goalies equipment is goalie stick or just gets a goalie stick head, gloves, pants, chest, shin, and the helmet is the same. There are a lot more equipment for lacrosse than football, however, lacrosse cost less, and just like football, equipment is