Somehow, the game exceeded all of the expectations.
“I’ve seen a lot of lacrosse games,” says Mike French, the Cornell attackman and U.S. and Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Famer, in a recent interview with Inside Lacrosse. “I think ours has to be up there as one of the most exciting ever played.”
It was a who’s-who of stars on the field: For Cornell, the attack of French, the late great Eamon McEneaney and Jon Levine, who SI described as a “scholarly, bespectacled dentist-to-be.” Maryland, which was shorthanded in the final, had the incomparable Frank Urso to lead a deep midfield.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. For three quarters, the showdown of the remaining Big Ten unbeatens featured two teams delivering a compelling, rollicking, back-and-forth, high-level show.
Then came the final 15 minutes, when just one team put on that show.
That was Maryland, which rattled off goals on its first eight possessions of the fourth quarter to suddenly turn a riveting one-goal game into a 19-12 rout of Rutgers.
“We just wanted to finish the game,” coach John Tillman said. “We knew they could score goals in bunches, so we wanted to continue to be aggressive.”
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