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Oh-and-four? The men's lacrosse team? The same laxmen who went to the NCAA playoffs last year with an 11-3 record? The same guys who were ranked 11th in the nation and first in New England in the preseason polls? Oh-and-four?
But the big crunch for this year's lacrosse team was the lack of pre-season practice time. That's what Scalise points to when he talks about the troubles of a team with ten freshmen and an unsettled line-up, a team whose biggest problem against Boston College was...
For starters, the Ivy League, in all its infinite wisdom, eliminated the five-week supervised fall lacrosse practice of past years. Whether or not all the schools adhered to the ruling (rumors of holes in the nets at Cornell continue to persist) is uncertain. But Harvard did, with Scalise busy...
With the athlete-as-student and student-as-athlete still on its mind, the Ivy League also KO'ed the winter box-lacrosse league, which was usually slated for November and December. Bye-bye competitive experience.
Next comes February and the beginning of regular pre-season lacrosse practice. The only problem was, with Briggs Cage, "Winter Home of the Harvard Athlete," taking a leave of absence for renovation, and the temperatures outside less than inviting, there was no suitable place to play.