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Once again Coach Robert Pickett of the Freshman Lacrosse team is faced with the age-old problem: that is, building a winning team out of players, the majority of whom have never seen a lacrosse stick before. To date, Pickett's warriors have a .500 record; but a 7-6 squeaker over MIT cannot offset a 20-1 holocaust at the hands of a powerful Deerfield Academy team...
...surface, the outlook for this lineup is not so black, but Pickett's problem lies in the fact that the rest of the squad are newcomers to the game. The Yardling's coach, however, is quite pleased with their progress. "They are coming along fine and some are showing signs of becoming excellent players," he said...
...team appears to be well-balanced, with no one outstanding star, although at the moment, the defense is shaping up more rapidly than the offense. Pickett attributes this to the lack of outside practice earlier in the spring, saying that the Massachussetts spring weather affected the offense much more adversely than the defense...
...Yardling lacrosse team opens its season this afternoon against M.I.T. at the Engineers' field with what Coach Robert Pickett terms "an unknown quantity...
Only five days out of Briggs Cage, the team will be handicapped by the lack of outdoor practice. Pickett stated that he thought that the M.I.T. team was probably at an equal disadvantage because of lack of practice. The games rates a toss-up, he said, because neither coach really knows the capability of his team...