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OverviewIn We Showed Baltimore, Christian Swezey tells the dramatic story of how a brash coach from Long Island and a group of players unlike any in the sport helped unseat lacrosse's establishment. From 1976 to 1978, the Cornell men's lacrosse team went on a tear. Winning two national championships and posting an overall record of 42–1, the Big Red, coached by Richie Moran, were the class of the NCAA game. Swezey tells the story of the rise of this dominant lacrosse program and reveals how Cornell's success coincided with and sometimes fueled radical changes in what was once a minor prep school game centered in the Baltimore suburbs. Led on the field by the likes of Mike French and Eamon McEneaney, in the mid-1970s Cornell was an offensive powerhouse. Moran coached the players to be in fast, constant movement. That technique, paired with the advent of synthetic stick heads and the introduction of artificial turf fields, made the Cornell offensive game swift and lethal. It is no surprise that the first NCAA championship game covered by ABC Television was Cornell vs. Maryland in 1976. The 16–13 Cornell win, in overtime, was exactly the exciting game that Moran encouraged and that newcomers to the sport wanted to see. Swezey recounts Cornell's dramatic games against traditional powers such as Maryland, Navy, and Johns Hopkins, and gets into the strategy and psychology that Moran brought to the team. We Showed Baltimore describes how the game of lacrosse was changing—its style of play, equipment, demographics, and geography. Pulling from interviews with more than ninety former coaches and players from Cornell and its rivals, We Showed Baltimore paints a vivid picture of lacrosse in the 1970s and how Moran and the Big Red helped create the game of today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christian Swezey , Bill TierneyPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Three Hills Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501762826ISBN 10: 1501762826 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 15 April 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPrologue: 1978, 2001, 1970 1. June 13, 1970 2. The Climb Begins 3. Barbarians at the Gate 4. The First NCAA Tournament 5. Falling Short 6. The Establishment Strikes Back 7. Assembling the Pieces 8. The French Connection 9. Start of a Streak 10. From Brown Stadium 11. Flamin' Eamon 12. That-a-way in Piscataway Epilogue: End of an EraReviews[We Showed Baltimore] is by any measure a must-read for all Cornell - make that all college - lacrosse fans. * Ithaca Times * Author InformationChristian Swezey is Producer for EWTN News Nightly. He has covered lacrosse since 1991, including twenty years with the Washington Post and Inside Lacrosse. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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