The name “lacrosse” was first begun by French Missionaries. These people thought the stick used by the Canadian Indian tribes looked like a crosier, or le crosse, carried by bishops. A Jesuit Missionary, Jean de Brebeuf, was the first person to document lacrosse in 1636. Then, in the 1840s French settlers in Canada took up the game. Soon after there was the first public lacrosse game held in the Montreal Olympics in 1844. George Beers, who’s a Canadian Dentist, is designated as the father of modern lacrosse, since he created most of those rules.