the first hockey club came up in Calcutta in 1885-86 and soon Bombay and Punjab followed Making its Olympic debut at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, Indian hockey team cruised home to its first Olympic gold, without conceding a single goal. Indian hockey legend - Dhyan Chand, who mesmerized the Amsterdam crowd with his dazzling skills. From 1928 to 1956, the Indian hockey t won six straight Olympic gold medals, while winning 24 consecutive matches.
This was the golden era of Indian hockey, when India loomed large in world hockey and produced some of the finest players the game has ever seen. In this period , one name that clearly comes to mind is Balbir Singh. For almost three decades, Indian team had about five players with the same name. T
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