50 Years of NCAA Men's Championships: For First Title, Newcomer Cornell Took on Establishment
Wednesday May 19th, 2021 9:30am (Photos Courtesy Cornell Athletics) The first NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship was 50 years ago, in 1971. Christian Swezey is the author of a forthcoming book on Cornell lacrosse in the 1970s, tentatively titled: "We Showed Baltimore: Richie Moran’s Big Red and the Lacrosse Revolution of the 1970s" CORNELL ENTERED THE 1971 season with a mishmash of a starting lineup. A pair of starting attackmen —senior attackman Al Rimmer, the leading scorer in the Ivy League the previous year, and junior Frank Davis— had not played high school lacrosse, though both exce...
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