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Over the course of the first few months of 2021 we will be publishing "best of" excerpts from the Lacrosse Legends and Lacrosse Talk video series (2019 and 2020) that we partnered in with the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation. Here's a teaser - enjoy!

A call for action - its time to submit nominations for the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. www.clhof.org

1. The World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship is being postponed from 2021 to 2022. The event will still be held in Towson, Maryland, USA at Towson University. The dates for the rescheduled event are to be confirmed, but likely will be late June / early July 2022. 2. The World Lacrosse Men’s U20 World Championship is also being postponed from 2021 to 2022. It is expected the event will still be held in Limerick, Ireland at the University of Limerick. The dates for the rescheduled event are to be confirmed, but likely will be late July / early August 2022. https://worldlacrosse.sport//world-lacrosse-shifts-two-wo/

Ab Brown - A Man of All Seasons including Christmas! The basement workshop was an incredible sea of clutter - tools hanging on the wall, more on the workbench, strands of leather draped over nearby hooks, tubs of resin on the floor below a glue pot and an armful of skeletal lacrosse sticks stacked in the corner awaiting the master's touch... Forr the rest of the story please visit:... https://www.clhof.org/index//ab-brown-a-man-of-all-seasons See more

Please share with all your Lacrosse friends and colleagues!

John Grant and Jim Wasson - Lacrosse Talk Video https://www.clhof.org//lacrosse-talks-john-grant-and-jim-w John Grant Sr. and Jim Wasson are the definition of teammates. They played together on various teams from Minor Lacrosse to Senior Lacrosse and as Team Canada members and also for the Philadelphia Wings in the early version of the NLL. ... Highlight and full length videos may be found on our blog at: https://www.clhof.org//lacrosse-talks-john-grant-and-jim-w

National Geographic article: It is a fight that means far more than the ability to compete on sport’s grandest stage. In the Iroquois’ eyes, it’s about equality, inclusion, respect, and the expansion of what it means to be a nation in the Olympic and sporting world. The outpouring of support this summer shows that at a grassroots level the lacrosse community has the Iroquois’ back. But now they want that respect from the world. They want to maintain the strongest of their roots to the past, while asserting their place in the future. https://apple.news/AQw_pQDPIQpKmU8ejK4v2KA

Lacrosse Talks - Bruce MacDonald and Dave Stewart-Candy This third installment of our series features two Historians with the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. https://www.clhof.org/index.php/blog/lacrosse-talks-bm-dsc... Bruce MacDonald is a governor of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and a historian, author and poet. He has published six history books, including Salmonbellies vs The World: The Story of Lacrosse's Most Famous Team & Their Greatest Rivals and The Good Hope Cannery, three books of poetry, two books of short stories and poems in Canadian periodicals. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria and an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Bruce has taught at the University of British Columbia and the Ontario College of Art and Design and is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada and the League of Canadian Poets. Dave Stewart-Candy is a resident of Surrey, British Columbia. Starting in May 2000, he has spent the past twenty years researching the statistical history of lacrosse, with a focus on the previously-undocumented 1882-1931 period when field lacrosse was the primary and popular version of the game in British Columbia. He has been a member of the board of governors and a historian for the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in New Westminster, British Columbia since July 2012. https://www.clhof.org/index.php/blog/lacrosse-talks-bm-dsc

Lacrosse Talks - Bobby Allan https://www.clhof.org/index.php//lacrosse-talks-bobby-allan The legendary Bobby Allan star player, coach, builder of the game and 1974 Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductee will talk about his involvement from the 1950's until now. His stories about Mann Cups, World Championships and the Pro Leagues can't be missed!... ----------------------------------------------------- The Canadian Lacrosse Foundation is finishing up 2020 by re-issuing the Lacrosse Talks that have been compiled over the last two years. Lacrosse Talks videos generally provide additional information and take a more conversational approach with the interviewee than the Legends of Lacrosse interviews. Historians and other lacrosse individuals also provide their unique perspectives in these episodes. This is the second in our series - on the CLHOF website: https://www.clhof.org/index.php//lacrosse-talks-bobby-allan

World Lacrosse would like to hear from you.! World Lacrosse is currently exploring ways to achieve gender equity in box lacrosse through development of the women’s game around the world in order to provide an opportunity for women and girls to compete in future World Lacrosse events. Have you thought about playing women's box lacrosse, have you played girls box lacrosse? Well please take a few minutes to fill out the below form and help move women’s box lacrosse forward. ... https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx

Lacrosse Talks - Don Fisher, Professor of History https://www.clhof.org/index./blog/lacrosse-talks-don-fisher The Canadian Lacrosse Foundation is finishing up 2020 by re-issuing the Lacrosse Talks that have been compiled over the last two years. ... Lacrosse Talks videos generally provide additional information and take a more conversational approach with the interviewee than the Legends of Lacrosse interviews. Historians and other lacrosse individuals also provide their unique perspectives in these episodes. This is the first in our series - on the CLHOF website: https://www.clhof.org/index./blog/lacrosse-talks-don-fisher

We’ve opened a new feature on our website - a blog called Lacrosse - Past Through Tomorrow We’ll be posting approximately 4 times per month stories that are a bit to long to cover fully here - please come take a look! Note that you may subscribe there to your favourite author, category of post, or to everything across the board, to get email alerts whenever a story that meets your interest is posted.

READ | Commemorative Lacrosse Display in Kingston: On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 the City of Kingston, Ontario, officially opened a display that commemorates ...the beginning of the modern game of lacrosse when the predecessor to the Canadian Lacrosse Association, the National Association of La Crosse, was formed. http://cla.pointstreaksites.com/view//news-feed/news_533223 --- LIRE | Dévoilement à Kingston d’une exposition commémorative de la crosse. Le mardi, 17 novembre, 2020, la ville de Kingston, dans l’Ontario, a officiellement dévoilé une exposition commémorant la naissance de la crosse dans sa forme moderne avec l’établissement de l’Association nationale de la crosse, organisme qui deviendrait par la suite l’Association canadienne de crosse. http://www.cla-fr.pointstreaksites.com//nouvel/news_533224 Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame

Don Barrie - Lacrosse Talks Video https://www.clhof.org//front-page/lacrosse-talks-don-barrie Historian, Coach, and Player during Peterborough's Golden Years Don is an Honoured Member of the Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Don started playing as a nine-year-old in 1949 in Peterborough. He played minor lacrosse in Peterborough and went on to play senior lacrosse in Brooklyn, Peterborough, Sorel, Montreal, Quebec City and Hastings. ... He started coaching in the Peterborough minor system in 1960, winning 10 Ontario titles and went on to coach Junior A lacrosse in Peterborough in 1970, 1971 and 1977. He advanced to coach the Major A Lakers in 1998 where he was named MSL Coach of the Year. At the professional level, he was assistant coach with the NLL Philadelphia Wings in 1974 and head coach of the Maryland Arrows in 1975. At the international level, Don was an assistant coach of the Canadian Field Lacrosse Team in 1978, again in 1982, and was convener of the team in 1990. https://www.clhof.org//front-page/lacrosse-talks-don-barrie

Joanne Stanga - Vignette This is the third of our "best of" series of video interviews, we hope you will enjoy the 1-minute selection (the full video is also available from the page in our website). https://www.clhof.org/index.php/blog/joanne-stanga-vignette Joanne Stanga is one of the important women who helped to build women's field lacrosse in Canada. She was the head coach and assistant coach of the senior women and U19 women's field lacrosse national teams for a 10-year period going back to 1993. She coached the Ontario senior and junior teams beginning in 1990 through 2005 and coached locally in Orillia.

Bruce Wanless is known as one of the game’s greatest defensive players. He was inducted into the Brampton Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1987, the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2002. Bruce did not begin playing until 1955 as a 17-year-old. He ended in 1972 having played with the Brampton Excelsiors mainly, and the professional Detroit team in 1968 and Kitchener in 1969. He won three Minto Cups for Brampton and played in four Mann C...ups, winning one of them for Port Credit as a pick-up. Wanless won the McIntosh Award as OLA Jr. A MVP in 1959, and the OLA Senior A Merv McKenzie Award as Best Defensive Player on four occasions. He played against and earned the respect of some of the game’s legends including Johnny Davis, Bobby Allan, and Jack Bionda. https://youtu.be/l9KoZHUDR0c

Two years ago at the 2018 @worldlacrossesport Men’s Field Lacrosse World Championship. #lacrosse #teamcanada #canadalacrosse #lacrossecanada #nationalteam #lax #growthegame #menslacrosse #lacrosseplayer #canada #laxjourney #lacrosseteam #honouringthegame #fieldlacrosse #worlds #worldlacrosse #clhof

#Repost @iroquoisnationalsofficial So much history in one photograph : @onondaganation #clhof

Hope you’ll watch this from our colleagues at CrosseCheck ... the outtakes we’ve seen so far have been great!

Another fine piece on Old School Lacrosse by Old Boot Dave Stewart-Candy https://oldschoollacrosse.wordpress.com//patriotic-lacros/

Bruce Roundpoint was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 representing Akwesasne. Roundpoint’s family is known for being important stickmakers for the game, at one time supplying 97 per cent of the game’s sticks worldwide. He was Captain of the All-Star Native Team that played in the 1980 Commonwealth Games. Bruce Roundpoint played for the Montreal Les Quebecois in the original National Lacrosse League under legendary coach Jim Bishop. Roundpoint was the scoring champion for both the Akwesasne warriors in 1977 and the Cornwall Island Thunder Birds in 1981. Watch this week’s Legends of Lacrosse video by the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation: https://youtu.be/xnVBHf0CmuA

Watch for the Premier of Two for the Show in October it will be a great show!

Johnny Davis is the most prolific scorer in the past 60 years of box lacrosse. In his rookie year with Peterborough, Ontario, in 1966 he scored 51 goals and had 69 assists, capping it off with a Mann Cup and a Mike Kelly MVP Medal as the Rookie of the Year. Davis won 4 Minto Cups in his Junior years. For eight seasons John dominated the Ontario Lacrosse Association in scoring and was an 8 time All Star. ... He ended his career with Montreal of the Professional League in 1975 and scoring 91 points. He played Sr. B in Montreal in 1976 and 1977. Johnny Davis ended up with 2 Mann Cups and 2 Mike Kelly Awards. https://youtu.be/dOsdAEiM4JE

Very interesting view from the ‘70s!

H/t to @hockey50years (Twitter) for surfacing this moment in history...

h/t to Christian Squier for this gem via Lacrosse History Past Present Future!

After being an official sport in the 1904 and 1908 Olympics, lacrosse was relegated to demonstration sport status in 1928 It was also a demonstration sport in... the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles This rarely-seen footage finds the United States (represented by Johns Hopkins) defeating Canada in the first of a three game series before 75,000 at the Coliseum In truththe crowd was there to see the finish of the marathon, which is seen here interrupting the game late in the 2d half The U.S. would win the best-of-three series; with box lacrosse having taken Canada by storm about 10 months earlier, this would be that country’s last gasp at big-time field lacrosse for many years