Contents
Collection Overview
Administrative Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1. Official Records
1935-1973
Series 2. Charles E. Marsters Files
1913-1962
Series 3. The Lacrosse Guide
1893-1962; n.d.
Series 4. News Clippings
1903-1962
Series 5. Printed Material
1948-1952; n.d.
Series 6. Oversized Material
n.d.
Series 1. Official Records
1935-1973
Series 2. Charles E. Marsters Files
1913-1962
Series 3. The Lacrosse Guide
1893-1962; n.d.
Series 4. News Clippings
1903-1962
Series 5. Printed Material
1948-1952; n.d.
Series 6. Oversized Material
n.d.
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New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League Records, 1893-1977
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Ruth Owen Jones.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2003
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Creator:
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New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League |
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Title:
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New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League Records |
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Dates:
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1893-1977 |
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Dates:
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1903-1963 |
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Abstract:
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When Charles Marsters founded the Boston Lacrosse Club in 1913, the club was the only one in New England to play teams from outside of the region. Under Marsters's leadership, however, participation in the sport rose steadily at both the high school and collegiate level, helping establish New England as one of the centers of the American game. In 1935, he and Tom Dent founded the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League (NEILL) to continue to build the sport.The NEILL records document the growth of lacrosse from informal club team play to a more regulated, interscholastic and intercollegiate varsity sport. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, minutes, and agendas kept by co-founder Charles Marsters and a handful of other NEILL officers, but with material documenting the growth of the sport at UMass Amherst from the 1950s onward and the addition of women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport. The collection also includes some printed material (including rulebooks), news clippings, and photographs.
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Extent:
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9 boxes(5.5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
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Identification:
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MS 331 |
Acquired from Richard Garber, 1973, 1977-1978.
Processed by Ruth Owen Jones, 1985.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League Records (MS 331). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The collection is open for research.
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One of the major figures in the growth of scholastic and collegiate lacrosse in New England, Charles E. Marsters first grew attached to the sport while an undergraduate at Harvard (BS, 1907), but his commitment never waned thereafter. Spurred by his energy and initiative, participation in the sport rose steadily at both the high school and collegiate level, establishing New England as one of the centers of the American game. An officer of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), serving as vice president (1907-1908) and president (1909-1910 and 1917-1918), Marsters worked tirelessly as player, coach, and manager to promote the sport. With Paul Gustafson, he founded the Boston Lacrosse Club in 1913, playing point for sixteen years and managing the team, which became the first in New England to play teams from outside the region. He also laid the foundation for teams at Yale in 1915, and at Brown, MIT, the University of New Hampshire, and Tufts in the later 1920s.
In 1935, Marsters and his colleague Tom Dent founded the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League (NEILL), which became a major vehicle for promoting the sport. He was recognized for his labors on behalf of the sport with an award from USILA in 1951 and with induction into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a player in 1957.
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The files of the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League (NEILL) document the growth of lacrosse in New England from an informal club activity to a regulated, interscholastic and intercollegiate varsity sport. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, minutes, and agendas kept by co-founder Charles E. Marsters and a handful of other NEILL officers. Reflective of his enthusiasm for lacrosse, Marsters's correspondents ranged from coaches to regional and national lacrosse associations, as well as college and prep school officials, including Frank Boyden, Headmaster of the Deerfield Academy and trustee of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some later correspondence reflects interest in the sport at UMass Amherst, beginning in the 1950s, and the beginnings of women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport.
The NEILL collection is equally valuable in documenting the founding of the Boston Lacrosse Club (1913-1962) through member lists and rosters, reports from the managers and treasurers, and promotional materials. The printed material in the collection includes rule books and news clippings, and materials and correspondence relating to publication of The Lacrosse Guide, as well as copies of the guide itself (1907-1962), and photographs.
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This collection is organized into six series:
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Series 1. Official Records
1935-1973
Includes minutes, 1935-73; account books, bank books and financial reports; copies of the constitutions of 1935, 1957, and 1966; reports; information on players and teams; newsletters; meeting agenda; and the correspondence of the following officers: E.W. Christensen, Earle Littleton, Robert Maddux, Ben R. Martin, Lincoln Redshaw, Timothy Ring, J. Bruce Munro, A. Barr Snively, and William A.R. Harkness.
Series 2. Charles E. Marsters Files
1913-1962
Marsters was the co-founder NEILL. Includes his correspondence with lacrosse enthusiasts around the country between 1913 and 1962; his correspondence with coaches of NEILL member colleges and affiliated prep schools; materials reflecting his association with the USILA and its activities: Development Committee, 1946-53; All America/All New England selection; North/South Game, 1949-62; newsletters, publicity releases and souvenirs; materials dating from the founding of the Boston Lacrosse Club, 1913-62: lists of members, constitution, letterheads, schedules, manager and treasurer's reports; correspondence, rosters, agreements, photographs and clippings; materials pertaining to the writing of the New H Book of Harvard Athletics: correspondence and other material reflecting Marsters' affiliations with the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, the US Lacrosse Coaches Association, the New England Lacrosse Officials Association, the US Women's Lacrosse Association, and the California Lacrosse Association.
Series 3. The Lacrosse Guide
1893-1962; n.d.
Contains material such as questionnaires, notes, and correspondence used to compile aspects of the guide, 1954-62, n.d., and copies of the guides themselves from 1907 to 1962 as well as other handbooks and rulebooks dating from 1893 to 1930 and n.d. In addition this series includes catalogs, correspondence, and orders pertaining to lacrosse equipment between 1935 and 1963.
Series 4. News Clippings
1903-1962
Contains newspaper clippings from a variety of newspapers collected by Harsters between 1903 and 1962.
Series 5. Printed Material
1948-1952; n.d.
Includes a bound volume on lacrosse, a clipped passage about lacrosse history, and a copy of an 1884 print by H.W. Hall.
Series 6. Oversized Material
n.d.
Includes posters, questionnaires, clippings, referee whistles (3), and photographs of teams.
Series 1. Official Records
1935-1973
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Minutes of Meetings
1935-1949
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Meeting Agendae, Minutes
1954-1961
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Bank Books (3)
1936-1942
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Constitution and related correspondence, Christensen
1935
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Correspondence, general , Christensen
1935-1936
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Correspondence Earle Littleton (Secretary-Treasurer 1937-1940)
1937-1938
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Correspondence Earle Littleton
1939-1940
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Corres. Robert Maddux (Sec-Treas, 1940-1942,1949)
1936-1940
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Corres. Robert Maddux
1941
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Corres. Robert Maddux
1942, 1949
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Corres. Ben Martin (Sec-Treas 1942-1944)
1942-1944
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Corres. Lincoln Redshaw(Sec-Treas 1944-1948)
1944
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Corres. Lincoln Redshaw
1945
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Corres. Lincoln Redshaw
1946
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Corres. Lincoln Redshaw
1947
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Corres. Lincoln Redshaw
1948
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Corres. Timothy Ring (Sec-Treas 1948-1950)
1948
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Corres. Timothy Ring
1949
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Corres. Timothy Ring
1950
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Corres. J. Bruce Munroe
1950-1952
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Corres. A. Barr Snively, Jr.
1954-1956
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Corres. William R. Harkness
1954
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Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Correspondence and Records
1940-1959
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Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Correspondence and Records
1960-1967
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Season Reviews
1969-1973
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Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Newsletters
1960-1962
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Series 2. Charles E. Marsters Files
1913-1962
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Corres. Charles E. Marsters
1913-1914
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Corres. Charles E. Marsters
1915-1916
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Corres. Charles E. Marsters
1947-1960
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Corres. Charles E. Marsters
1961-1962
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Mailing Addresses kept by Charles E. Marsters
n.d.
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NEILL-Amherst College
1936-1953
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NEILL-Bates College
1930-1945
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NEILL-Boston University
1931-1934
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NEILL-Bowdoin College
1940-1955
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NEILL-Brown University
1930-1952
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NEILL-University of Connecticut
1946-1953
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NEILL-Dartmouth
1928-1949
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NEILL-Hartford Club
1947
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NEILL-Harvard University
1910-1959
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NEILL-Kenyon College
1947-1951
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NEILL-Lowell Textile Institute
1940-1953
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NEILL-University of Maine
1950-1953
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NEILL-M.I.T.
1929-1952
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NEILL-Univ. of Mass.(orig. Mass. State)
1940-1954
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NEILL-Middlebury
1948-1956
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NEILL-New England College
1949-1951
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NEILL-University of New Hampshire
1930-1952
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NEILL-Nichols Junior College
1949-1953
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NEILL-Rhode Island State (now URI)
1935-1951
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NEILL-Springfield College
1930-1953
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NEILL-Trinity College-Hartford
1946-1953
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NEILL-Coast Guard Academy
1946-1947
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NEILL-Wesleyan
1943-1952
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NEILL-Williams
1934-1953
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NEILL-Worcester Polytechnic and Clark Univ.
1941-1953
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NEILL-Other Colleges outside New England
1951-1952
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NEILL-Prep. School Affiliates of NEILL
1961-1962
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NEILL-Andover-Phillips Academy
1931-1952
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NEILL-Clark School.-Hanover, New Hampshire
1950-1952
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NEILL-Choate
1946-1952
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NEILL-Deerfield Academy
1939-1942
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NEILL-Deering High, Portland, Maine
1939-1940
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NEILL-Governor Dummer
1937-1952
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NEILL-Hebron, Hotchkiss
1948
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NEILL-Kimball Union.
1938-1952
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NEILL-Kingswood School
1939-1952
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NEILL-Lawrence Academy
1939-1952
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NEILL-Loomis
1942-1950
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NEILL-Middlesex School
1948-1952
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NEILL-Mt. Hermon
1938-1952
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NEILL-Phillips, Exeter
1933-1952
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NEILL-St. Paul's-Concord, New Hampshire
1945-1952
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NEILL-Suffield Academy
1941-1946
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NEILL-Tabor Academy
1948-1952
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NEILL-Thornton Academy
1938
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NEILL-Tilton School
1942-1946
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NEILL-U.S. Naval School
1949-1950
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NEILL-Worcester Academy
1935-1953
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NEILL-Other Preps.
1935-1952
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U.S. Intercollegiate Association (USILA)
1947-1952
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Records and Correspondence
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USILA Correspondence
1952
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USILA Records and Correspondence
1955-1960
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USILA Records and Correspondence
1961-1962
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USILA Development Committee
1946-1953
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All American/All New England Teams
1930,1952
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All American Selection Committee, Records,
1958-1962
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Correspondence, Clippings
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USILA North-South Lacrosse Games
1949-1959
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USILA North-South Lacrosse Games-Records,
1960,1961
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Clippings and Correspondence
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USILA North South Game
1962
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"The Lacrosse Newsletter"(s)
1958-1962
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Publicity Releases
1952-1961
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Programs, Schedules, Tickets, Posters
1907+
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Association of N.E. Colleges for Conferences on Athletics, Correspondence, Minutes
1931-1939
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Boston Lacrosse Club Constitution, Records
1913-1915
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Boston Lacrosse Club
1954-1962
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Harvard University Varsity Club."The H. Book"
1961-1962
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The H Book of Harvard Athletics(bound volume)
1852-1922
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Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Correspondence, Notes,
1958-1961
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U.S. Lacrosse Coaches Association, Corres.,
1956-1961
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Printed Material, Reports
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Lacrosse Coaches Assoc. Newsletter
1951-1952
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N.E. Lacrosse Officials Association, U.S.
1938-1962
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Lacrosse Officials Association
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U.S. Women's Lacrosse Association, Clippings
1952
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Correspondence, Printed Material
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California Lacrosse Association
1961
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Series 3. The Lacrosse Guide
1893-1962; n.d.
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Lacrosse Guide Info., Questionnaires,
1952-62, n.d.
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Lacrosse Guides- Rules and Regulations
1907-1928
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Lacrosse Guides
1929-1941
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Lacrosse Guides
1942-1944, 1946-1955
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Lacrosse Guides
1956-1962
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Outdoor Sports 1893 and Lacrosse Handbooks
1893-1930, n.d.
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Lacrosse Equipment, Catalogs, Orders,
1935-1952
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Lacrosse Equipment Catalogs
1960-1963
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Series 4. News Clippings
1903-1962
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Clippings
1903-1911
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Clippings
1936, 1937, 1940
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Clippings, Canada
1929-1930
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Series 5. Printed Material
1948-1952; n.d.
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Lacrosse, by W. Kelso Morrill, 1952;
1952, n.d.
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"Other Indian Games", n.d.
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Copy of 1884 Print, "Game of Lacrosse", H.W. Hall
1948
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Series 6. Oversized Material
n.d.
Box
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Posters, Clippings,
n.d.
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Questionnaires, (3) whistles, (1) badge, etc.
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Box
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Photographs - Teams
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