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LACROSSE C APTAIN Andy Rockefeller led his 1951 lacrosse team to another fine season, made up of three losses, balanced by eight victories. This, the third for Coach Harkness, is an- other mark in the rise of the ancient game of lacrosse at Yale. Both Rockefeller and goalie Dick Treadwell received honorable mention for All-America honors. Save for these two and seniors Fields and Stowell, the team re- mains intact, a good augury for spring 1952. Starting strong against Springfield in March, the Blue managed a 12-6 win at Yale Field, followed by two victories over Penn- sylvania at 16-2 and Adelphi at 16-8. Yale ' s perennial nemesis in the form of Army ' s strong squad then broke the Blue victory skein at West Point to the tune of 8-23. Travelling to New York the Elis garnered a fourth win at the expense of CCNY, 15-5. At Williamstown it was still the Blue that held the edge, and Williams bowed 7-5. The Yale applecart was then given an unkind shove by the representatives of Rutgers, as the Blue came out short on a 7-8 count. MIT was then forced to vield 14-2, and Dartmouth also gave in 5-4. The big problem of what to do with Princeton was next, and apparentlv it was unsolved, for the Tigertovvn squad hurried through a 17-1 victory. The season ended when the Elis maintained a 6-5 edge over the Harvard Johnnies at their Cambridge meeting. Third row—AugeU (Alnnflger), Cruikshank, Casey, Gergens, Bruce, Toole, Harhiess (Coach ' ), Cor)ieU, Homer, Thompson, Potter, Slanker, Foley (Trainer ' ); Second row— Torrance, King, McCcindless, Foley, Duncan, Yellott, Hansen, Smith, Wallace, Parker, Isaacson, Connick, Eldredge; Front row— Fields, Prince, White, Warner, Freeman, Rockefeller, Stnircll. Mnpcl. McDonald. Pnonic. Treadwell

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for the Blue bv the automatic score of 9-0. Yale had been ahead 2-0 at that time. The West Haven Sailors, local semi-pros, yielded 6-1, and the men from Tigertown be- gan the annual two game series by dropping a close one in the Blue lap, 2-1. Holy Cross was not so kind, and insisted on taking away the long end of a 4-2 score. After school ended the Elis again met Princeton and dropped their fourth game by a one point margin, 7-6. The Sailors next took the Blue for a 3-0 shutout, and against Trinity, Emerson allowed only two safeties, a single run, while his mates pounded the Trinity pitchers for seventeen hits. The re- sult was a crushing 18-1 Blue win. The season ended with the two games against Harvard. The first game at Yale Field found starter Breckinridge no problem for the Johns, and a 1 3-8 debacle greeted the eyes of the reunion crowd. This defeat left a record of six losses for the Blue in eight EIL starts. The final game was something of a face-saver, although not counted in the EIL standings. Senior Little started and went all the way against the Crimson at Cambridge. Captain Dowd ended his ball career with a grand slam homer. The eight runs recorded by the Blue in the first inning indicates the wild character of the plav, but revenge tasted sweet, Yale in- flicting the loss on Har ' ard before their Com- mencement crowd. Third Ro v—Wrigley (Trainer), Rossoinondo (Ass ' t Coach), Breckinridge, Emerson, Saunders, Little, Charlton, Allen [Coach), Agiiiar; Second row—Smith, Healy, Zych, Reed, Kiiigsley, Brown, Moidton, Brown, Scinto, McDermott; Front row—Gntmuey, McHngh, Beresford, Kreutzer, Dowd, Gormley, Cook, Chasanoff, Raynor, Frumykin (BathoyO rAL -% l m -wr- ■ - . i

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