Identifier: officialnational16nationa (find matches)
Title: The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association lacrosse guide
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: National Collegiate Athletic Association. (from old catalog) United States Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Lacrosse
Publisher: New York, National Collegiate Athletic Bureau
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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team to victory by asingle goal. Playing next at Harvard, April 25, and still withoutMorley and without the goal tender, Lett, injured in the Syra-cuse game, Oxford-Cambridge won rather easily, 5 to 2. Har-vard was outplayed throughout. In this game Wansbrough,for the visitors, was the important figure of their success.The Crimson scored a point in each half. On April 26 Oxford-Cambridge met Stevens Institute atHoboken, N. J., and won from that twelve, 8 to 4. Stevensscored the first point against the visitors, but fine passinggave Lord Wansbrough of Oxford a chance to tie the score,and from that time on the English players drew ahead.When the Englishmen led by a single point Stevens spurtedand made every effort to rally, but two points by Wans-brough, following in quick succession, effectually turnedthe result of the game. Much stiffer opposition was encountered when the Oxfordplayers met Princeton, April 27, and the Tigers won by6 to 4. The American players were always a little more
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Spaldings Athletic Library 31 aggresive than the English team. Captain Hopkins, playinggoal in place of the injured Lett, played a beautiful gamefor Oxford. Stinson, Hoffman and Ditmars were a trio ofstars for Princeton. In the last five minutes the Englishplayers scored a sensational point, but despite the hard fightthat they made they were unable to tie the Orange and Black.The last game in the United States was against the Cres-cent Athletic Clubs fine team in Brooklyn, April 29, and thevisitors lost, 6 to 1. About 10,000 spectators saw the contestand there was much enthusiasm displayed over the goodwork of both twelves. The English players were away off intheir shooting and lost chance after chance because of theirinabiliy to net the ball. They also missed Lett at goal badly.Returning home by way of Montreal, the last game of thetour was played prior to departure against the University ofMontreal, May 1. This, too, was a hard fought contest, thevisitors responding to the cooler we

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