Editing Bandy (section)

===Historical relationship with other sports===
====Bandy and association football====
With [[association football]] and ''hockey on ice'' or bandy both being popular sports in parts of Europe around 1900, bandy was highly influenced by football and taking after [[Laws of the Game (association football)|its main rules]]: having a field approximately the same size, having the same number of players on each team and having the same game time (2×45 minutes).<ref>[https://runeberg.org/nfbc/0554.html "Nordisk familjebok (Uggleupplagan)", vol. 3. Bergsvalan - Branstad, 1905, p. 1027 (in Swedish)], accessed 7 September 2022</ref> It is natural that bandy got the nickname 'winter football'.<ref name="Oxford"/>

It was common for sports clubs to have both a bandy and a football section, with athletes playing both sports but at different times of the year. Some examples are ''Nottingham Forest Football and Bandy Club'' in England (today known just as [[Nottingham Forest F.C.]]) and Norwegian [[Strømsgodset IF]] and [[Mjøndalen IF]], with both having an active bandy section.

In Sweden, most football clubs that were active during the first half of the 20th century also played bandy. Swedish player [[Orvar Bergmark]] earned silver medals in the world championships of both sports in the 1950s. Later, as the season for each sport increased in time, it was not as easy for the players to engage in both sports, so some clubs came to concentrate on one or the other. Many old clubs still have both sports on their program. [[Sten-Ove Ramberg]] is the last Swedish male player in both national teams (1978 in bandy, 1979&ndash;1984 in football).

====Bandy and ice hockey====
No clear distinction between bandy and ice hockey was made before the 1920s.<ref name=nlm2023>{{cite journal| publisher= National Library of Medicine, Frontiers in Physiology | title= "Sprint skating profile of competitive male bandy players: determination of positional differences and playing level" | first1=Roland | last1= van den Tillaar | first2= Haris | last2= Pojskic | first3= Håkan | last3 = Andersson | journal= Frontiers in Physiology | date = 2023 | volume= 14 | doi= 10.3389/fphys.2023.1055863 | doi-access= free | pmid= 37304822 | pmc= 10250590 }}</ref> As bandy in a way can be seen as a precursor to [[ice hockey]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/explore.php?Lang=1&tableid=11&tablename=theme&elementid=60__true&contentlong |title=Hockey in Montreal since the 19th Century &#124; Thematic Tours &#124; Musée McCord Museum |publisher=Mccord-museum.qc.ca |access-date=7 February 2014}}</ref> bandy has influenced the development and history of ice hockey, mainly in European and former Soviet countries. While modern ice hockey was created in Canada, a variety of games which bore a closer resemblance to bandy were initially played there after British soldiers introduced the game of bandy in the late 19th century. At the same time as modern ice hockey rules were formalized in [[British North America]] (present-day Canada), bandy rules were decided upon in Europe. A cross between English and Russian bandy rules eventually developed with the football-inspired English rules (''cf'' the passage above about bandy and Association football) becoming dominant, together with the Russian low-border along most of the two sidelines, an addition to the sport which has maintained its presence since the 1950s.

Before Canadians introduced ice hockey into Europe in the early 20th century, "[[hockey]]" was another name for bandy,<ref>Nordisk Familjebok 10 Hassle-Infektera, Förlagshuset Norden AB, Malmö 1952, "Hockey", column 386</ref> and still is in parts of Russia and Kazakhstan.

Both bandy and ice hockey were played in Europe during the 20th century, especially in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.<ref>Nordisk Familjebok 2 Asura-Bidz, Förlagshuset Norden AB, Malmö 1951, "Bandy", columns 324–326</ref> Ice hockey became more popular than bandy in most of Europe, mostly because it had become an Olympic sport, while bandy had not. Athletes in Europe who had played bandy switched to ice hockey in the 1920s to compete in the Olympics.<ref name=Converse>{{cite web|url=http://thehockeywriters.com/bandy-the-other-ice-hockey/|author=Eric Converse|title=Bandy: The Other Ice Hockey|publisher=The Hockey Writers|date=17 May 2013|access-date=6 May 2014}}</ref><ref>E.g. in the Netherlands, see {{cite web|url=http://www.bandybond.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/120-jaar-bandygeschiedenis-in-Nederland.pdf|title=120 jaar bandygeschiedenis in Nederland (1891–2011)|author=Arnout Janmaat|date=7 March 2013|page=10|access-date=13 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222035707/http://www.bandybond.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/120-jaar-bandygeschiedenis-in-Nederland.pdf|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The smaller ice fields needed for ice hockey also made its rinks easier to maintain, especially in countries with short winters.<ref name=Converse/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/lifestyle/article/bandy-ice-hockey-in-sweden-goes-big-in-europe.html|author=Waldemar Ingdahl|title=Bandy – ice hockey in Sweden goes big in Europe|publisher=Café Babel|date=12 November 2008|access-date=6 May 2014}}</ref> On the other hand, ice hockey was not played in the Soviet Union until the 1950s, when the [[USSR]] wanted to compete internationally. The typical European style of ice hockey, with flowing, less physical play, represents a heritage of bandy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/14/russians-no-longer-mesmerize-with-brilliant-hockey-but-golden-feeling-is-there/|title=Russians no longer mesmerize with brilliant hockey but golden feeling is there|author=Joe Posnanski|publisher=NBC Sports Pro Hockey Talk|date=14 February 2014|access-date=21 February 2014}}</ref>