[DOC] [TLE] History of lacrosse - Wikipedia [PAR] Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by eastern Woodlands Native 
Americans and ... There were hundreds of native men playing a ball game with 
sticks.The game began with the ball .... Some say the name originated from the 
French term for field hockey, le jeu de la crosse. Others suggest that it was 
named after... [DOC] [TLE] Croquet - Wikipedia [PAR] Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet 
through hoops ... By the 12th century, a team ball game called la soule or choule, 
akin to a chaotic version of hockey or football (depending on whether sticks were 
... for'"ball and mallet' (the latter also found in the name of the earlier French 
game, jeu... [DOC] [TLE] Lacrosse - Wikipedia [PAR] Lacrosse is a contact team sport played between two teams using a small rubber 
ball and a ... Offensively, the objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball 
into an ... Long stick middies only play defense and come off of the field on 
offense. ... The name seems to be originated from the French term for field hockey
,... [DOC] [TLE] Bagatelle - Wikipedia [PAR] Bagatelle is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a 
number of ... Table games involving sticks and balls evolved from efforts to bring 
outdoor games ... The name Bagatelle was first used to describe such a game in 
1819. ... Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle tables with them to
... [DOC] [TLE] The History of Pool, Billiards, English Billiards, Snooker, Eight-Ball ... [PAR] A Brief History of the Noble Game of Billiards (Pool, Snooker, English Billiards) ... 
The balls were shoved, rather than struck, with wooden sticks called "maces. ... 
from French, either from the word "billart", one of the wooden sticks, or "bille", a 
ball. Most of our information about early billiards comes from accounts of playing 
by... [DOC] [TLE] The History Of Lacrosse. Who Invented Lacrosse? [PAR] The traditional face-off (toss-up) included the teams yelling the name of their ... 
The traditional ball game played by Minnesota's Ojibway and Dakota ... The 
Iroquois have also embraced the modern game played with plastic sticks and 
helmets. ... The British were at war with the French and controlled all the trading 
in the... [DOC] [TLE] Stickball - Choctaw Nation [PAR] sticks in hand, with aspirations of becoming famous players as young men. ... 
Choctaw communities that date back to the French period (e.g.. Anonymous 1755
), and ... ball games, basically similar to the Choctaw version, are played by most 
of the ... Choctaw stickball is played on a large, flat field, called atoli in the 
Choctaw... [DOC] [TLE] Pioneer Children's Games - Historic The Dalles [PAR] Cup and ball toys tests the player's eye-hand coordination, and can be played ... 
The name comes from the French domino, the winter hood of a priest which was 
... The object of the game is to drop the sticks in a pile and then remove them one
... [DOC] [TLE] English (on a ball, etc.)  The Word Detective [PAR] Mar 4, 2010 ... ... on the ball, i.e., making it spin with their cue sticks to get the cue ball to ... Pool,
 the game, comes from the French word for it, poule, also ... called side, 
especially in Britain, because the ball is struck slightly to one side. [DOC] [TLE] The Indian Origins of Lacrosse : The Colonial Williamsburg Official ... [PAR] Information about Powhatan ball games, specifically stickball, is otherwise scant. 
... modern lacrossethe name derives from the French word for the stickwas .... 
All of a sudden, the Indians dropped their sticks, grabbed their weapons, and... [DOC] [TLE] History | US Lacrosse [PAR] Attempts to connect it to the rubber-ball games of Meso-America or to a perhaps 
... is the progenitor of all present-day sticks, both in box

Question: The name of this ball game comes from the French for "sticks"
Answer: billiards