Thursday Training
Thursday afternoon is training at Mods Hockey Club. With the Juniours training at 4.30pm and Adults at 6:30pm and you are encouraged to stay around afterwards for a relaxing drink and a home-cooked meal.
Modernians or "Mods" as it is affectionately known originated in 1932 as an ex-student and associated club for Perth Modern School. Although the club does not have a formal affiliation with the School at present our emblem, the Sphinx, is shared with the School, and a great many former students of the School identify with the club as the only remaining sporting club which relates to the Perth Modern School. The Clubrooms and grounds are located less than 2 kilometers from the Perth Modern School campus.
Club Rooms and Field Locations
Our well appointed clubrooms are located in Bourke Street, North Perth, off Fitzgerald St, only 2 kilometers from the Perth GPO. We are the only Hockey Club operating in the Town of Vincent. See marker on the map.
Quick History Lesson
Wikipedia: Field HockeyGames played with curved sticks and a ball have been found throughout history and the world. For example, there are 4000-year-old drawings in Egypt of the game being played, hurling dates back to before 1272 B.C. and there is a depiction from 500 B.C. in Ancient Greece. There were various hockey-like games throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and the word 'hockey' was recorded in the Galway Statutes of 1527.
The modern game of hockey grew from the game played in English public schools in the early 19th century. The first club was created in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London, but the modern rules grew out of a version of hockey played by members of Middlesex cricket clubs for winter sport. Teddington Hockey Club, arguably, formed the modern game that we know today by introducing the striking circle and changing the ball to a sphere from a rubber cube. The Hockey Association was founded in 1886. The first international took place in 1895 (Ireland 3, Wales 0) and the International Rules Board was founded in 1900.
