In the middle of Main Street, a sculpture depicts two athletes reaching for the sky, holding long sticks with netting at the end, competing over a ball. A third athlete lays in the scrum, trampled underneath. The game? Lacrosse. The city? La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Lacrosse Players is a tribute to the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the game that led to the town’s name. The origins of lacrosse lay to the east of Wisconsin, as the sport originated in or near Canada with the nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in…
