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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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s, Class BThe penalty is suspension from the game for from 3 to 7minutes. Holding an opponents stick. Illegal interference. Holding or pushing. Shouldering or checking from behind. niegal body-checking. Tripping. Kneeling in front of a runner. Slashing. Unnecessary roughness. Personal FoulsThe penalty is suspension for the remainder of the game,substitution being allowed after 10 minutes. Crosse checking—Checking so that theplayer checked is caught against the stickheld firmly in both hands.Using profane or threatening language to a player or the referee.Deliberately striking a player with the stick,or otherwise.Lacrosse when played properly has no superior amongathletic contests as a spectacle, as a test of endurance and asan exercise of judgment and fast thinking. The skill requiredto handle the ball with the stick is greater than that requiredin any other athletic sport and can only be attained after longpractise. The best athletes only acquire it after several yearsof hard work.
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Spaldings Athletic Library 13 Lacrosse—The Best Spring Game for Schoolsand Colleges By Glenn S. Warner,Foot Ball Coach at Carlisle and University of Pittsburgh. Lacrosse is a game admirably adapted to the needs ofschools and colleges. It should appeal to the lighter, fleeter, more active boys, aswell as to the more sturdy, rugged and heavy men we have inmind as representing the foot ball player type. For both canbe used in this old Indian game which, as a developer ofphysique, finesse, and the finer points of athletic agility, hasno superior. I knew very little about Lacrosse when introduced duringthe first few years of my regime as athletic director of theCarlisle Indian School. At that time the school authoritieswere more or less worried because of the attitude of suchstudents who had returned to school after using their vaca-tion to play summer base ball. These men would not con-centrate upon their scholastic work. And although influencewas used to direct them to seek other emplo

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