LACROSSE

This somewhat exotic sport is defined by Webster as "a game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, played with longhandled rackets, with which the hard ball is caught, carried, or thrown" (italics by F. E. M., not Webster). And this year we have just the boys to play this game, born among the aboriginal inhabitants of what is now the continental United States. For Coach Tommy Dent is currently the proud possessor of two bona fide North American Indians, both of whom played their ancestral game from the time they could toddle about on the Mohawk reservation. These fabulous characters are Rudy Lorraine '46 and Bill Cook '50, both recently discharged from the armed forces and apparently destined to burn up the league this spring with their own peculiar form of legalized mayhem. They are both reputed to have shots that will practically blast the back out of the opposing nets, plus various cunning devices known only to those whose forefathers have been playing this game since long before Columbus.

In addition to these very special performers, Coach Dent has a nucleus of veteran racketeers from last spring. George Little (Navy) is finishing his third year of lacrosse at Dartmouth and has recently been elected Captain of the team. His work at defense is steady and assured, in which capacity he is backed up by such operatives as Danny Carroll (Captain of soccer last fall), Iggy Lohse, and a number of others. In a practice game held recently with Williams on the muddy field behind the gymnasium, the Green swamped Williams' aggregation by something like 20-0. That is not the official score (it wasn't an official game anyway) but for.lacrosse that is roughly the equivalent of beating somebody at football by ten or twelve touchdowns. So maybe Tommy Dent is going to have some fun this spring after all.