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...coach of a team which has seven of the first ten players back again usually is full of glowing predictions about an undefeated season. But lacrosse mentor Bob Maddux still shakes his head and says the three men he lost by graduation were the best on the squad. Eddie Davis, now J.V. shepherd, was chosen second All-American at defense; Jay Hurley set up nearly all the Crimson goals; and big Ned Dewey threw the roughest bodycheck on the squad...
...other hand, is Maddux pessimistic about his lacrosse team. He has the biggest squad in his experience out of which to build a team. Unfortunately he has but five more days in which to find the nucleus. Come next Tuesday, the authorities at Drexel Institute will be expecting a Harvard lacrosse team on its field. And also come next Tuesday the H.A.A. will be paying the way for only twenty players...
...other side of the fence is the Navy. The sailors play a rough and ready game with the accent on checking and power plays and last year's aggregation dropped a 15-1 game to them. A win over either Maryland or Navy would be an ostrich plume in Maddux...
...case, the spring trip is not a fair test of Crimson ability. All three enemy squads have been practicing outside since the first of March. True, Maddux has had three dozen players working out in the Cage since early in February, but indoor work does little more than get the men in shape and teach the coach their names. In addition, lacrosse is a major sport down Chesapeake way, almost as big as football, with crowds of three and four thousand spectators not uncommon...
...Southern lacrosse is superior to the New England brand. But the annual North-South all-star game shows the boys in blue with a one game bulge. "We would do a lot better against the Maryland teams if we met them at the end of the season," observes Coach Maddux...