A field lacrosse game was played between Canada and Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

The game was tied 9-9 in the fourth period, before Canada scored 5 straight goals to pull ahead.

South Africa was slated to send a team but then withdrew prior to the tournament.

The Official Report notes that it was the "first time in the history of Canadian lacrosse a team had been selected from all parts of the Dominion," with players from clubs "as far apart as New Westminster and Montreal.

"[3] The report also credits the British team as "by far the strongest ever put into the field" by England, though admits the sport was "not yet as well-known as it ought to be on this side of the Atlantic.