Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lacrosse is a fluid game, resembling hockey played on a field 110 yards long and 60 to 70 yards wide. The object of the game, according to the august words of the Official Rules, is "to score by causing the ball to enter the opponent's goal." For this purpose the lacrosse player is given a crosse made of four to six feet of wood topped by a rawhide net in which the ball is caught and carried around the field. The ball can be kicked but not touched by the hands...
...goalie, who stands in front of the six-by-six hole which is the goalmouth, but ventures forth to become an offensive player when his team has the ball...
Three defensemen, who concentrate so hard on guarding their men that the goalie has to shout out at intervals where the ball is. They are not allowed ever the center line into the attack zone...
...game, as far as the attack man is concerned, is to gain a stop on the man guarding him, by any one of a number of crafty maneuvers. Foremost of the offensive arts is "dodging," (see cut left) in which the man with the ball fakes his defender off balance and then spins past him. There are also a number of "brush plays" where one of more attackers stage a traffic jam which prevents the defenseman from keeping up with the ball carrier...
Once a team gets a man loose, it can put pressure on the defense, sometimes forcing a defender to switch to the free ball-carrier (see cut below), sometimes scoring on a quick shot past a man screening the goalie's view...