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After the freshman lacrosse team over-whelmed Yale, 14-4, for its sixth straight win and eighth of the season against only one loss, beer and champagne followed in abundance at Dillon Field House. The Yardling stickmen had reason to celebrate. They were, according to Coach Jim Lentz, the "finest freshman lacrosse team I've had in my ten years at Harvard...
...Lentz admitted that, midway through the season, he had been worried. "When we beat a weak Governor Dummer team by only 9-5, and then followed that with a lackluster 10-4 performance against Dartmouth, another weak team. I felt that the boys hadn't improved too much from their early season showings," he said...
...when we came back real strong and whipped a previously undefeated Exeter squad, 12-3, and followed that with strong wins over Andover and Yale," Lentz continued. "That's when we became a lacrosse team...
...team leaders, throughout the season, were midfielder Bruce Regan, the squad's captain, and John Ince, an attackman from Long Island. Regan, the best high school player in Maryland last year, was to quote Lentz, "a great lacrosse player. He's the best midfielder I've seen at Harvard...
Some readers will be offended by the highly explicit manner in which Author Lentz describes the rude indignities heaped on the ignorant Negro troops by their white superiors, or the meanness shown by Confederate recruiters as they drag 16-year-old boys away from their homes to fight and die. There is reason to believe, however, that Lentz tells...