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lacrosse: a sport not for the faint of heart
By Anthony Wilson
Reporter
^ They don’t receive scholarships.
p4. I |i They pay $40 dollars a year to play.
I I Ui They don’t play for capacity crowds.
Their crowds usually number 12 to
20 people. They don’t even have a
oach.
But the Texas A&M Lacrosse
Club members take their sport very
seriously.
Lacrosse came to A&M in 1972 as
1 DavaTos’lm intramural sport. In 1975, it be-
:ame a club sport when the South
west Lacrosse Association was
formed.
The only other club in the associa
tion at the time was the San Antonio
Lacrosse Club. Now the association
tonsists of 12 college club teams. In
dependent club teams are no longer
allowed in the association.
Lacrosse was devised in New York
y the Iroquois Indians. Teams of
ten consisted of up to 1,000 players,
and goals were several miles apart.
Games often lasted as long as three
days.
The object of the game then was
to injure as many opponents as pos
sible. Scoring goals was secondary.
The Cherokee Indians used lacrosse
to train for war.
Today, the game is a bit more civi
lized. It is a combination of several
eneral'sci s P orts - ft uses several offensive strat-
ould heir, e g' es which are similar to basketball.
It requires the knowledge of stick
handling as in hockey, and it has the
contact of football.
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The field is now 60 yards wide
nd 110 yards long. The six-foot
ouare goals are 80 yards apart. Ten
ilayers on each team advance a
mall rubber ball up the field by
(assing or running with it while us-
ng a stick.
The stick has a small net on the
md. The ball is passed from and
aught in the net. While running
with the ball, the stick is spun in the
lands to keep the ball in it with cen-
rifugal force.
A player may touch the ball with
ny part of his body except his
lands. Only goalies can touch the
lallwith their hands.
Players can use their sticks to hit
ipposing players’ sticks. Players may
ilso use their bodies to hit opposing
ilayers. Hitting a player with a stick
forbidden unless it is inadvertant.
he only protective equipment a
ilayer wears is a helmet, gloves,
irmpads and a cup.
Junior Wallace Kahn (right) of the A&M lacrosse
team attempts a shot on goal as sophomore Chris
Photo by John Kaspar
Grayson applies defensive pressure during a
practice session on the Simpson Drill Field.
Charlie Grau, a senior industrial
distribution major and four-year
player, said, “I’ve seen some pretty
hairy injuries. Broken clavicles, ribs,
knees. Stuff like that.”
Although lacrosse would seem to
be a difficult sport to master, Grau
insists this isn’t true.
“Most of the people we get have
never even picked up a stick until
they get here,” he said. “You say la
crosse to the majority of them and
they say ‘Isn’t that in Wisconsin?’
“It’s not a game that you really
need to play all your life to be good
at. Most the people we get, we’ll
teach them how to handle the stick
and some of the basic strategy of the
game. In two weeks, they can handle
the stick and are out on the field.”
Grau also said using the stick to
catch and pass the ball is not as diffi
cult as people might think.
“It’s no more difficult than catch
ing a ball with a baseball glove,” he
said. “It becomes an extension of
your hand.
“Generally you’re going to choke
up on the stick, and the net will be
right on the end of your hand. It’s
almost like using your hand.”
The 40 members of the club prac
tice every weekday and some Satur
days from 4 to 6 p.m. on the Simp
son Drill Field.
The seniors and more experi
enced players run practices and de
vise strategies and training tech
niques. The team has not had a
coach since 1983.
“We had a coach up until ’83,”
Grau said. “Then he kinda got mar
ried and had to look for a regular
job.”
During the fall, the team plays
about seven scrimmage games. A&M
also sponsors an annual fall tourna
ment.
The conference schedule begins
in the spring semester. Each team
plays the other four teams in its divi
sion twice. The A&M club has
beaten Rice University and South
western University and lost to the
University of Texas so far this year.
Following the season, the top two
teams from each division will partici
pate in the Southwest Lacrosse Asso
ciation playoffs in Waco. A&M has
been in the championship game the
past two years and has lost to Texas
Tech both times.
“We’re the Minnesota Vikings of
lacrosse in Texas,” club president
Chris Menzel said. “We’re always in
the championships but we never win
it. But we’re consistent.”
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