. The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association lacrosse guide. Spaldings Athletic Library 17 In my opinion the summer base ball problem of our col-leges and universities could be satisfactorily solved by sub-stituting Lacrosse in its stead. But at the same time there isa place, an important place, for Lacrosse as a spring sportin conjunction with base ball. The increasing number ofstudents enrolled at our colleges and universities makes itimportant to have enough sport activities to permit all whowould participate. Cricket is played but little; track de-mands the 10-second man; the ba
. The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association lacrosse guide. Spaldings Athletic Library 17 In my opinion the summer base ball problem of our col-leges and universities could be satisfactorily solved by sub-stituting Lacrosse in its stead. But at the same time there isa place, an important place, for Lacrosse as a spring sportin conjunction with base ball. The increasing number ofstudents enrolled at our colleges and universities makes itimportant to have enough sport activities to permit all whowould participate. Cricket is played but little; track de-mands the 10-second man; the base ball squad is small; thecrew requires the heavy, muscular man. Total the numberparticipating in these sports in any college and compare itwith the enrollment. Thus you will observe a great numberof men of athletic inclination available for other sportactivities. Lacrosse is a great game, a game requiring every attributeof athletic skill and the highest athletic sense and brain. Iam enthusiastically for m^^i^mmm0H life. Wr^S o ® S 2 ^ is^ - Ic^, H ■CO ai P-t of _o _ p § > S £ o! 1^ g Spaldings Athletic Library 19 International Lacrosse THE CRESCENT TOUR IN 1897. Lacrosse is played, and has been for years, in widely sep-arated lands and has the distinction of being in season insome country every week in the year. In Great Britain theseason is from October to April, in the United States fromMarch to July, and in Canada from June to September. No other team game has made such rapid strides in inter-national competition. Canadian teams have repeatedly vis-ited England and annually one or more Canadian teams makea tour of the United States. Likewise one American Lacrosseteam has journeyed to England, and during the 1922 seasonthe combined teams of Oxford and Cambridge made an ex-tensive American invasion. It was on the thirteenth of March, 1897, that a number ofmen who had played Lacrosse at several colleges sailed fromNew York wearing the half moon insignia of t
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