Field Hockey started along time ago but to date back to the more modern version of the game, it can date back to people in the British Isles playing it in the 14th century! The first club field hockey sport was then created thousands of years later. In 1849 the Blackheath field hockey club was invented. They played their first game on a field 100 yards by 60 yards, trying to score on the other team's goal, and goalkeeper. Just a few years later field hockey truly meet their modern game and a new field hockey club team was created. That team was called the Teddington HC (hockey club). Teddington introduced the striking circle to the game along with a sphere shaped ball instead of a cube one. Then in 1886 the hockey association of England created the rules and standards that all team sand clubs would have to follow. Hockey experienced its greatest height of success in British colonial India, where Calcutta HC was founded as the first professional field hockey team outside of England in 1885. The sport continued to grow at a rapid pace in India throughout the 19th and the early 20th centuries, and when field hockey was added as an Olympic sport in 1928, India proceeded to win the gold medal every single year from 1928 to 1956! Field hockey has also experienced great success in other colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, and the United States.