Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After four weeks of kicking up the Briggs Cage dust, Coach Bruce Munro's lacrosse squad finally got a break in the weather and moved outside on Tuesday. Even then the "practice field" was only a gravel pit affair behind the baseball diamond, and the squad is not expected is shift over to their Business School field until this afternoon...
Working out in the Briggs Cage is akin to playing tennis on a ping pong table, so Munro has had to schedule heavy practices this week and a scrimmage with the Boston Lacrosse Club for Saturday...
Munro remarked yesterday that he was "optimistic about the team this year despite the graduation of seven key seniors." He added that it was "still too early to get a real line on the team, but in the Cage, at least, the players showed themselves much further along than last year...
Other sophomores slated for heavy duty on the spring trip are attackman Pete Brook, defenseman Bill Spence and Jay Byrne, Goalie Bob Thomas is still jockeying with veteran Sid Clark for the starting cage slot...
...twenty man trip-squad was drawn from the forty odd players who reported to Munro on February 13 and who have been working out two hours a night is the Cage. The reserves who did not make the trip are still likely to see action later in the season...