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DAY 1: OTHL Hockey Festival in Kolkata, remaining matches

12/02/2011

FOURTH MATCH: Kanaipur Sriguru boys. JDS Ganganagar upset all calculations when they went into the lead in the 4th minute through Lovepreet Singh. Barely had the shock settled when Lovepreet slammed in the second goal in the very next minute. He completed his hat trick in the 7th minute through a third field goal. Sudip Mondal reduced the margin for the Kanaipur boys in the 8th minute. The second half did not see any goals but saw some frayed tempers. Individual play with desperate drib...

Team Selection underway in three schools in Delhi

20/01/2011

We always pondered over one main issue in schools hockey. That pertains to basics -- how to select 20 or 25-member team when almost triple number of boys or girls turn up.

Almost everyone of them is new to hockey, and therefore game's skill is ruled out as the selection criteria.

How to then go about? Good physique, sprinting capabilities, grasping hockey quickly and so on.

This aspect came in big measure recently in Delhi. Ashok Vihar's Kulachi M...

Kanpur braces up for season's hockey

19/01/2011

Kanpur is bracing up for the season's hockey activities.

The schools have just reopened after extended winter vacation.

There are 8 schools in the focus area of One Thousand Hockey Legs

Project Officer for the city Mrs. Mithilesh Gupta has contacted the concerned school authorities, briefed them of what is being planned by us for the season.

She has got positive response from the schools

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Hockey initiated at Muslim High School,Chennai

13/01/2011

Muslim High School, located in the busy Tiruvallikeni area of Chennai, has taken up hockey seriously.

Recently, they completed all formalities to join One Thousand Hockey Legs.

Muslim School, a prominent talent pool for tennis and other Olympic sports in the metropolis, did not have a hockey team right now.

PETs Rahim and Basha could not confirm existence of hockey teams in the school as it was not there in the recent past. ...

New Outlook, new challenges for the new year 2011 for

01/01/2011

Welcome 2011

The new year marks beginning of third year of ‘One Thousand Hockey Legs’.

It has so far been so interesting and inspiring that we look forward to 2011 as a year of consolidation.

We could convince and start hockey in about 30 schools spread over five cities – Puducherry, Kanpur, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi -- where hockey was not in the list of sports being practised before we knocked their doors.

That about 30 schools are ...

'Gain Hockey Knowledge' gains foothold in Delhi

16/12/2010


One gets hockey news in the newspapers, television channels and websites. They in part gives an idea of what's going on in hockey around you.

Young children may be reading newspapers, seeing the channels but we are not sure how much proper knowledge of hockey they get out of these.

It has been, therefore, our endevour to create hockey literature and make it reach it to young hearts.

Recently, we in the Hockey Citizen Group brought out a bou...

Something to see and cheer about

09/12/2010

We are happy to bring the attention of visitors of this site over our recent activity. It deals with spreading of hockey information to younger generation, the students in schools in particular.

We have recently brought out three publications. These are simple tools to realize Hockey Citizen Group’s objective of creating enlightened hockey followers and players....

Summary of activities in Chennai and Puducherry in November 2010

09/12/2010

Despite rain and unpredictable climate, Chennai and Puducherry, the costal centres of OTHL, witnessed a flurry of activities in November 2010.

These activities have been planned as per the overall vision of HCG.

Here is the recap of these carefully planned and immaculately implemented activities.

1) ‘Feel Turf Chennai’. OTHL runs its flagship One Thousand Hockey Legs in Chennai almost a year. Out of three schools, our part time paid coaches go ...

A big day for OTHL Pondicherry and OTHL Chennai

28/11/2010

It was a big day for One Thousand Hockey Legs.

Almost 2 years back, when we set out on taking Hockey to some 6 schools of the city of Pondicherry - almost all of them never played Hockey in their existence - we had a dream that one day we will have a team that will represent OTHL Pondicherry; a team that will go around and play matches with various other teams in and out of their city.

2 years of toil and endeavor brought us to the day when OTHL Pondicherry team, co...

Feel Turf in Chennai

17/11/2010

The 3 OTHL schools from Chennai:
Don Bosco, Egmore
St. Anthony Anglo Indian School, Egmore
St Bedes School, Santhome

will assemble at 12noon at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Chennai to take part in "Feel Turf" programme being held by One Thousand Hockey Legs team....


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