Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maryland 5 Harvard...
...race problem was first raised here this year by the presence of a negro on a team that regularly makes a spring trip as far as south as Maryland. That trip has been made, as usual, and with unhappy consequences. In the first game, against the University of Pennsylvania, the negro played without causing so much as a murmur. In the second game, against the University of Maryland, the student was at first not allowed to play. Administration officials hemmed and hawed and thought up every possible excuse, but the player finally competed, and, incidentally, won the respect of both...
Hampered by lack of good pre-season practice and crippled by injuries, Coach Dick Snibbe's Varsity lacrosse team lost its three games to Penn, Maryland, and Navy respectively on its recent trip to the south which it regularly makes every spring vacation...
Star of the trip was Goalie George lianford, who put a crimp in every attack he met. Making seemingly impossible saves in each of the three games, he shone in the Maryland contest when for three of the four periods he held Maryland's vaunted team...
Lack of good reserves was the reason for the beating which the Crimson team took in its second contest at the hands of Maryland. Through the spectacular play of George Hanford, who continued to play despite a back injury, Maryland was held during the first half but scored nine goals in the second half to win by the overwhelming margin...