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The Game of Hockey

ISSUE 00110 AUG 2026WINDSOR, NS44°59′N 64°08′W

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Long Pond frozen over in winter, ringed by bare trees, with a low wooded ridge behind it.
Long Pond, Windsor, Nova Scotia, photographed in winter for the January 2002 broadcast. Caption preserved from the former site. The historical claim it repeats is contested and is not verified here. LP 001

The Game of Hockey

Fromfrozenpondstomeasuredpitches

A groundskeeper’s field manual for the measured game, and a small independent archive of material preserved from the former Long Pond site in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

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Standard field hockey pitch

91.40 by 55.00

Length (m)
91.40
Width (m)
55.00

Surface — turf or grass Line width — 75 mm

All dimensions in metres. Full dimension ledger

Plan of a full-size field hockey pitch The 91.40 by 55.00 metre field of play, showing the side-lines and back-lines, the centre line, the two 22.90 metre lines, both shooting circles with their 3.66 metre straights and 14.63 metre arcs, the penalty spots and the goals.
  1. Lines are 75 mm wide, white, and part of the area they enclose.
  2. Shooting circle: a 3.66 m straight, continued by quarter arcs of 14.63 m.
  3. The 22.9 m lines are measured between the furthest edges of the lines.
  4. Goals are centred on the back-lines, 3.66 m of clear width inside the posts.
  5. The penalty spot centre lies 6.475 m from the outer edge of the back-line.
  6. Broken 5 m lines are compulsory for senior international matches only.

Route 01

Field manual

A practical guide to the measured game.

Pitch dimensions, the markings and the order to set them out in, surfaces and their upkeep, goal sizes, and a paint estimate you can check line by line.

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Surface drag
Pass direction
Depth of drag
3–5 mm

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Long Pond archive

Photographs, notes and records preserved from the former site.

Six dossiers kept at their original addresses, with the captions as published and a note on what each one does and does not establish.

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A crowd gathered on and around the frozen pond on a bright winter day.
Long Pond on 5 January 2002, the day of the CBC broadcast. Used on the former home page to trail the highlights page. LP 100

Evidence index

Everything published so far, in the order it was drawn up. The field manual works from the current rules; the archive works from what the former site left behind.

  • F 01 Pitch dimensions 91.40 by 55.00 metres, and every figure inside it — the 22.90 m lines, the circle, the spot and the run-off — in metres and yards. Field manual
  • F 02 Markings and layout A labelled drawing of every line, what each one is for, and the order to set them out in on an unmarked surface. Field manual
  • F 03 Water-based and sand surfaces What separates a water-based pitch from sand-dressed and sand-filled turf, in play, in upkeep and in how the lines are put down. Field manual
  • F 04 Goal dimensions 3.66 m of clear width, 2.14 m to the crossbar, and how the posts, boards and nets sit against the back-line. Field manual
  • F 05 Paint estimate Line length, painted area and litres for a full-size pitch, worked from your own coverage figure and shown step by step. Instrument
  • A 01 Hockey evidence unveiled The 1988 announcement at King’s-Edgehill, the Windsor Mail recollection of 1876 and the Haliburton passage, as the former site published them. Archive
  • A 02 Hockey Day in Canada, 2002 The broadcast from the pond on 5 January 2002, preserved with the captions the former site wrote for it. Archive