SWARTHMORE/DelCO/Philadelphia/USA/WORLD Lacrosse History
by Mark Petrone - updated September 30, 2024
1876: Lacrosse at Germantown Cricket Ground
1876: A Grand Lacrosse Tournament planned at 1st World's Fair in Philadelphia
1876: Ontario to send a lacrosse team to "the centennial"
1876; The Lacrosse Expedition
1876: The Game of Lacrosse - Six Nations
1877: First College Lacrosse game: New York College vs Manhattan in Central Park part 1
1877: First College Lacrosse game: New York College vs Manhattan in Central Park part 2
1877: The Scottish Games
1877: The Scottish Games - $200 in Prizes
1878: First Lacrosse game in Portland
1884: American team vs United Kingdom team in Belfast
1885: Swarthmore in the USILA
1886: The Game Of Lacrosse - Delco Times
1886: Irish Lacrosse Team to play on Staten Island
1886: County Fair Seneca vs Cayuga game
1886: Delco Agricultural Society fair to feature lacrosse game
1887: The Canadian Game - St Paul's Daily Globe - February 20
1891: Swarthmore Phoenix - students interested in lacrosse
1896: Ice Hockey on Crum Creek and "Doc" Shell preparing for lacrosse
1896: If you can't play football , play lacrosse
1897: Swarthmore prepares for first game vs Hopkins
1897: Hopkins 4, Swarthmore 0
1898: First Swarthmore Lacrosse season on record
1898: 30 men training for lacrosse
1899:
1900: Swarthmore team picture
1900: Swarthmore beats Stevens Tech
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn in a pre-season scrimmage
1901: Swarthmore announces lacrosse schedule
1901: Swarthmore beats alums in alumni game
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn again, in second pre-season scrimmage
1901: Swarthmore beats CCNY
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn in a real game
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn again in a real game
1901: Swarthmore beats Columbia
1901: Swarthmore beats Lehigh 4-2
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn, again
1901: Swarthmore beats Crescents from Brooklyn, 3-2
1901: Crescents give away the reason Swarthmore won
1901: Swarthmore prepares for Championship game with JHU
1901: JHU prepares for Championship game with Swarthmore
1901: West Chester high will run at relay at halftime of Swarthmore / JHU game
1901: Swarthmore beats JHU 4-2 for Championship
1901: JHU loses to Swarthmore for United State Championship- Baltimore Sun
1901: Harvard claims Intercollegiate Championship
1901: Swarthmore writes to Ottawa LC part 1
1901: Swarthmore writes to Ottawa LC part 2 and season review
1901: Swarthmore to play Crescents in Canada
1901: Brooklyn Citizen article on the Crescents
1901: Lacrosse gaining foothold
1901: Another article about the Cresecents
1902: Ridley Park Athletic Club Lacrosse
1902: Swarthmore defeats Penn 7-1, miserable game with poor play
1903: Johns Hopkins @ Swarthmore for Alumni Day
1903: Games vs Oxford
1903: Swarthmore team to go on eastern tour will play Oxford
1903: Swarthmore playing Oxford, tomorrow
1903: Swarthmore vs Oxford, GameDay
1903: Oxford edges Swarthmore
1904: Madden to coach Hopkins, tough upcoming game vs Swarthmore
1904: Hopkins to play Swarthmore for Lacrosse Supremacy
1904: Swarthmore Lacrosse Team are Champions
1904: Swarthmore beats Hopkins 8-3 to claim championship
1904: Black and Blue Beaten - Baltimore Sun
1904: Lacrosse Honors for Swarthmore
1904: Rough play in championship game
1904: Swarthmore Champions - Coach Bert Davis (Toronto) Toronto Star
1904: Swarthmore wins out, beats Virginia in first ever game in the South
1904: Newly organized Virginia team scored four goals on Swarthmore but still lost
1904: Big reception for Swarthmore champs
1904: Swarthmore Post Office robbed at the same time as championship reception
1904: Swarthmore Post Office robbed during championship reception - small article
1904: Swarthmore team picture
1905: The Lacrosse Boom - Wilkes Barre News
1905: College Lacrosse Consolidation - Boston Evening Transcript - March 6
1905: Swarthmore wins National Championship 16-4 over JHU
1905: Swarthmore team bio
1905: Swarthmore College team touring Canada (Brantford Daily, Ontario Canada)
1906: Coach Bert Davis (Toronto) leaving Swarthmore for Stevens
1906: Swarthmore Coach Frank Grimes' (Ottawa) Good Work
1907: Our One Real American Game - San Franciso Sunday Call
1907: Swarthmore tries to help Pittsburg Lacrosse Club
1907: Lehigh beats Swarthmore 7-1
1907: Toronto comes to America and beats Hobart ad Swarthmore
1910: Outlook for Lacrosse unusually promising William Schmeisser
1910: Hopkins announces schedule
1910: Lawson Whitehead (Brantford) accepting the "chair of lacrosse" position at Swarthmore
1911: Swarthmore beats New York Lacrosse Club
1912: Swarthmore announces schedule
1912: Swarthmore announces schedule, again
1912: Swarthmore coach arriving in from Canada, going to play Toronto again
1912: Cornell @ Swarthmore
1912: Swarthmore beats NYLC in the rain
1912: Swarthmore ties Navy
1912: Swarthmore beats Lehigh in the rain
1915: New Swarthmore coach Edward Lalonde (Cornwall, Ontario) from Canada
1915: "Newsy" Lalonde will coach Swarthmore this spring
1915: Lalonde (Cornwall, Ontario) will coach Swarthmore will return to Canada in 2 months
1915: Edouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde Wikipedia page, Lalonde in Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Lacrosse HOF
1915: "Newsy" Lalonde lacrosse card
1917
1918: Cambridge Oxford @ Swarthmore
1920
1922: Lacrosse Makes Appeal
1925: Lacrosse candidates out at Swarthmore
1926: Swarthmore getting ready for invaders
1926: Swarthmore beats Oxford 11-8
1928: Hopkins team to represent USA in Olympics
1930: Lou Korn urges Lacrosse in Olympic Program for 1932
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse history article
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture and Information
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture - wide shot
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture - action shot
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture - action shot colorized
1933: Box rink contructed on Fairview Road (Swarthmore Pizza) across from Players Club
1934: Chester boy stars for Washington College
1934: Box Lacrosse Swarthmore vs Comets, large article with names
1935: Box Lacrosse circuit to open soon
1935: Box Lacrosse - Swarthmore College players try box lacrosse
1935: Box Lacrosse Baltimore beats Swarthmore at Porter Waite Box
1935: Box Lacrosse - Big crowd watches Lacrosse game
1935: Marshall Gatchell box lacrosse referee
1936: Swarthmore grad starts up lacrosse at Deerfield
1936: Box Lacrosse - Philadelphia Lacrosse Club vs Comets
1936: Box Lacrosse - Swarthmore vs Mount Washington at Waite Box (Swarthmore Pizza)
1936: Box Lacrosse Baltimore All Stars (Bobby Poole) vs Swarthmore team
1936: Dick Post - lacrosse star and track star
1937: Lacrosse Game "World Museum Dioramas"
1937: PMC (Widener) Polo Field Box Rink
1937: Box Lacrosse debuts in Chester at PMC (Widener) Polo Fields
1937: All about lacrosse and Porter Waite
1937: Hank Ford vs Porter Waite at PMC
1937: Hank Ford promotion
1938: Horseshoe brings ill luck in Orangeville, Ontario
1938: Marshall Gotchell - lacrosse enthusiast
1938: All Americans
1939: Leading college scorerers in 1939
1940: Yale beats Swarthmore in first intercollegiate box lacrosse game
1940: Swarthmore player Al Cosinuke dies after W&L game part 1
1940: Swarthmore player Al Cosinuke dies after W&L game part 2
1940: Lacrosse duo split by death
1940: Lacrosse duo split by death complete article w/ picture
1940: All Americans named
1940: Box Lacrosse season will get underway, here are the coaches
1941: First Junior High Lacrosse game in Pennsylvania
1941: Swarthmore beats Duke
1941: Army Lacrosse
1945: Lt Joe Youmans Swarthmore resident, Cornell Lacrosse alum, killed in action
1945: Swarthmore beats Hopins 17-7
1945: Swarthmore High rivarly with St Pauls Baltimore, MD
1945: Harry McCloskey on All American Lacrosse Team
1946: Swarthmore beats Rutgers in first ever night game north of Mason Dixon
1946: Chester Beer
1946: Lower Merion debut
1946: Swarthmore High beats Lower Merion
1946: Percy Belfield named head coach at Drexel Tech
1946: Irish boy plays lacrosse
1947: Boxing and Lacrosse clinics at Penn State Center in Swarthmore
1947: Box Lacrosse Swarthmore defeats Philadelphia LC at McMurtrie Field
1947: Box Lacrosse Phila All Stars defeat Sun Oil
1948: Hopkins beats Swarthmore 17-1
1948: Swarthmore to play powerhouse RPI team in Troy, NY
1948: The Bobby Pool Trophy
1949: Avery Blake & Box Lacrosse in Swarthmore
1949: Avery Blake & Box Lacrosse in Swarthmore close up
1949: Avery Blake Jr chooses Swarthmore College
1949: Box Lacrosse Swarthmore crushes Sun Oil
1949: Swarthmore High beat Penn Freshmen
1949: Swarthmore High beats Penn State Center
1949: Glen (Nick) Theil of Penn State coaching in the North - South All Star Game
1949: Curtis Gallagher Sports Shorts
1950: High Flyin' Don Swan
1950: Swarthmore High lacrosse overview
1950: Philadelphia Lacrosse Club advertisement
1950: Swarthmore beats Loyola
1950: Box Lacrosse to start in July
1951: Washington College drops Baseball for Lacrosse
1951: Swarthmore High grad named Dartmouth lacrosse manager
1971: Brine first generation plastic stick - Bobby Poole pocket
1971: Brine first generation plastic stick #2 - Bobby Poole pocket
1974: Villanova Team Picture
1974: Villanova Team Picture #2
1988: Box Lacrosse Ridley vs Peterborough Lakers
1876: A Grand Lacrosse Tournament planned at 1st World's Fair in Philadelphia
1876: Ontario to send a lacrosse team to "the centennial"
1876; The Lacrosse Expedition
1876: The Game of Lacrosse - Six Nations
1877: First College Lacrosse game: New York College vs Manhattan in Central Park part 1
1877: First College Lacrosse game: New York College vs Manhattan in Central Park part 2
1877: The Scottish Games
1877: The Scottish Games - $200 in Prizes
1878: First Lacrosse game in Portland
1884: American team vs United Kingdom team in Belfast
1885: Swarthmore in the USILA
1886: The Game Of Lacrosse - Delco Times
1886: Irish Lacrosse Team to play on Staten Island
1886: County Fair Seneca vs Cayuga game
1886: Delco Agricultural Society fair to feature lacrosse game
1887: The Canadian Game - St Paul's Daily Globe - February 20
1891: Swarthmore Phoenix - students interested in lacrosse
1896: Ice Hockey on Crum Creek and "Doc" Shell preparing for lacrosse
1896: If you can't play football , play lacrosse
1897: Swarthmore prepares for first game vs Hopkins
1897: Hopkins 4, Swarthmore 0
1898: First Swarthmore Lacrosse season on record
1898: 30 men training for lacrosse
1899:
1900: Swarthmore team picture
1900: Swarthmore beats Stevens Tech
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn in a pre-season scrimmage
1901: Swarthmore announces lacrosse schedule
1901: Swarthmore beats alums in alumni game
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn again, in second pre-season scrimmage
1901: Swarthmore beats CCNY
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn in a real game
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn again in a real game
1901: Swarthmore beats Columbia
1901: Swarthmore beats Lehigh 4-2
1901: Swarthmore beats Penn, again
1901: Swarthmore beats Crescents from Brooklyn, 3-2
1901: Crescents give away the reason Swarthmore won
1901: Swarthmore prepares for Championship game with JHU
1901: JHU prepares for Championship game with Swarthmore
1901: West Chester high will run at relay at halftime of Swarthmore / JHU game
1901: Swarthmore beats JHU 4-2 for Championship
1901: JHU loses to Swarthmore for United State Championship- Baltimore Sun
1901: Harvard claims Intercollegiate Championship
1901: Swarthmore writes to Ottawa LC part 1
1901: Swarthmore writes to Ottawa LC part 2 and season review
1901: Swarthmore to play Crescents in Canada
1901: Brooklyn Citizen article on the Crescents
1901: Lacrosse gaining foothold
1901: Another article about the Cresecents
1902: Ridley Park Athletic Club Lacrosse
1902: Swarthmore defeats Penn 7-1, miserable game with poor play
1903: Johns Hopkins @ Swarthmore for Alumni Day
1903: Games vs Oxford
1903: Swarthmore team to go on eastern tour will play Oxford
1903: Swarthmore playing Oxford, tomorrow
1903: Swarthmore vs Oxford, GameDay
1903: Oxford edges Swarthmore
1904: Madden to coach Hopkins, tough upcoming game vs Swarthmore
1904: Hopkins to play Swarthmore for Lacrosse Supremacy
1904: Swarthmore Lacrosse Team are Champions
1904: Swarthmore beats Hopkins 8-3 to claim championship
1904: Black and Blue Beaten - Baltimore Sun
1904: Lacrosse Honors for Swarthmore
1904: Rough play in championship game
1904: Swarthmore Champions - Coach Bert Davis (Toronto) Toronto Star
1904: Swarthmore wins out, beats Virginia in first ever game in the South
1904: Newly organized Virginia team scored four goals on Swarthmore but still lost
1904: Big reception for Swarthmore champs
1904: Swarthmore Post Office robbed at the same time as championship reception
1904: Swarthmore Post Office robbed during championship reception - small article
1904: Swarthmore team picture
1905: The Lacrosse Boom - Wilkes Barre News
1905: College Lacrosse Consolidation - Boston Evening Transcript - March 6
1905: Swarthmore wins National Championship 16-4 over JHU
1905: Swarthmore team bio
1905: Swarthmore College team touring Canada (Brantford Daily, Ontario Canada)
1906: Coach Bert Davis (Toronto) leaving Swarthmore for Stevens
1906: Swarthmore Coach Frank Grimes' (Ottawa) Good Work
1907: Our One Real American Game - San Franciso Sunday Call
1907: Swarthmore tries to help Pittsburg Lacrosse Club
1907: Lehigh beats Swarthmore 7-1
1907: Toronto comes to America and beats Hobart ad Swarthmore
1910: Outlook for Lacrosse unusually promising William Schmeisser
1910: Hopkins announces schedule
1910: Lawson Whitehead (Brantford) accepting the "chair of lacrosse" position at Swarthmore
1911: Swarthmore beats New York Lacrosse Club
1912: Swarthmore announces schedule
1912: Swarthmore announces schedule, again
1912: Swarthmore coach arriving in from Canada, going to play Toronto again
1912: Cornell @ Swarthmore
1912: Swarthmore beats NYLC in the rain
1912: Swarthmore ties Navy
1912: Swarthmore beats Lehigh in the rain
1915: New Swarthmore coach Edward Lalonde (Cornwall, Ontario) from Canada
1915: "Newsy" Lalonde will coach Swarthmore this spring
1915: Lalonde (Cornwall, Ontario) will coach Swarthmore will return to Canada in 2 months
1915: Edouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde Wikipedia page, Lalonde in Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Lacrosse HOF
1915: "Newsy" Lalonde lacrosse card
1917
1918: Cambridge Oxford @ Swarthmore
1920
1922: Lacrosse Makes Appeal
1925: Lacrosse candidates out at Swarthmore
1926: Swarthmore getting ready for invaders
1926: Swarthmore beats Oxford 11-8
1928: Hopkins team to represent USA in Olympics
1930: Lou Korn urges Lacrosse in Olympic Program for 1932
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse history article
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture and Information
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture - wide shot
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture - action shot
1932: Swarthmore Box Lacrosse Picture - action shot colorized
1933: Box rink contructed on Fairview Road (Swarthmore Pizza) across from Players Club
1934: Chester boy stars for Washington College
1934: Box Lacrosse Swarthmore vs Comets, large article with names
1935: Box Lacrosse circuit to open soon
1935: Box Lacrosse - Swarthmore College players try box lacrosse
1935: Box Lacrosse Baltimore beats Swarthmore at Porter Waite Box
1935: Box Lacrosse - Big crowd watches Lacrosse game
1935: Marshall Gatchell box lacrosse referee
1936: Swarthmore grad starts up lacrosse at Deerfield
1936: Box Lacrosse - Philadelphia Lacrosse Club vs Comets
1936: Box Lacrosse - Swarthmore vs Mount Washington at Waite Box (Swarthmore Pizza)
1936: Box Lacrosse Baltimore All Stars (Bobby Poole) vs Swarthmore team
1936: Dick Post - lacrosse star and track star
1937: Lacrosse Game "World Museum Dioramas"
1937: PMC (Widener) Polo Field Box Rink
1937: Box Lacrosse debuts in Chester at PMC (Widener) Polo Fields
1937: All about lacrosse and Porter Waite
1937: Hank Ford vs Porter Waite at PMC
1937: Hank Ford promotion
1938: Horseshoe brings ill luck in Orangeville, Ontario
1938: Marshall Gotchell - lacrosse enthusiast
1938: All Americans
1939: Leading college scorerers in 1939
1940: Yale beats Swarthmore in first intercollegiate box lacrosse game
1940: Swarthmore player Al Cosinuke dies after W&L game part 1
1940: Swarthmore player Al Cosinuke dies after W&L game part 2
1940: Lacrosse duo split by death
1940: Lacrosse duo split by death complete article w/ picture
1940: All Americans named
1940: Box Lacrosse season will get underway, here are the coaches
1941: First Junior High Lacrosse game in Pennsylvania
1941: Swarthmore beats Duke
1941: Army Lacrosse
1945: Lt Joe Youmans Swarthmore resident, Cornell Lacrosse alum, killed in action
1945: Swarthmore beats Hopins 17-7
1945: Swarthmore High rivarly with St Pauls Baltimore, MD
1945: Harry McCloskey on All American Lacrosse Team
1946: Swarthmore beats Rutgers in first ever night game north of Mason Dixon
1946: Chester Beer
1946: Lower Merion debut
1946: Swarthmore High beats Lower Merion
1946: Percy Belfield named head coach at Drexel Tech
1946: Irish boy plays lacrosse
1947: Boxing and Lacrosse clinics at Penn State Center in Swarthmore
1947: Box Lacrosse Swarthmore defeats Philadelphia LC at McMurtrie Field
1947: Box Lacrosse Phila All Stars defeat Sun Oil
1948: Hopkins beats Swarthmore 17-1
1948: Swarthmore to play powerhouse RPI team in Troy, NY
1948: The Bobby Pool Trophy
1949: Avery Blake & Box Lacrosse in Swarthmore
1949: Avery Blake & Box Lacrosse in Swarthmore close up
1949: Avery Blake Jr chooses Swarthmore College
1949: Box Lacrosse Swarthmore crushes Sun Oil
1949: Swarthmore High beat Penn Freshmen
1949: Swarthmore High beats Penn State Center
1949: Glen (Nick) Theil of Penn State coaching in the North - South All Star Game
1949: Curtis Gallagher Sports Shorts
1950: High Flyin' Don Swan
1950: Swarthmore High lacrosse overview
1950: Philadelphia Lacrosse Club advertisement
1950: Swarthmore beats Loyola
1950: Box Lacrosse to start in July
1951: Washington College drops Baseball for Lacrosse
1951: Swarthmore High grad named Dartmouth lacrosse manager
1971: Brine first generation plastic stick - Bobby Poole pocket
1971: Brine first generation plastic stick #2 - Bobby Poole pocket
1974: Villanova Team Picture
1974: Villanova Team Picture #2
1988: Box Lacrosse Ridley vs Peterborough Lakers