Bill,
Jim Trenz here. A few data points could help you and the CU Lax community. The single season highest scoring duo in points per game and goals per game in NCAA history is Trenz-French: 6.5 ppg and 6.71 ppg, respectively, and combined 7.85 goals per game in 1974. French had 5.71 and 6.56 ppg the next two years. My career 6.21 ppg was an NCAA record, as were career goals per game; and at Penn State the NCAA Single Season records of points per game 7.0, goals per game 4.2, and points in a Single game 13. Five NCAA Records in total. I don't know how many records French has, but he had overtaken me in three of them. Without many others- Jon Levine, Billy Marino, Hagerty, Bobby Mitchell, Sanford- helped French in 1974 when he had 4.5 gpg, his highest seasonal rate. What a nice guy! He was a great teammate. Without a supporting team, it's too difficult to achieve. The '74 team had two NCAA records, and still has the Ivy record for most goals in a season, and CU record of most goals in a game.
If you consider your comment of what-if French and Mac and Trenz were on the same team, who would have drawn the number 1 defenseman? Who would have played defensive middie to take away ball possession of a stalling team? What shame I didn't get use my last year of athletic eligibility and been on the '75 team. No, I had to graduate - in those days if you didn't get out in four years, there had better be a good reason.
I don't think having Mac only would have changed the 1974 Semifinal result - we didn't have the middies and faceoff expert, and other problems the subsequent teams didn't have. We did well and had a great fun, especially on bus rides...
The total number of points in a career is obviously a function of the number of games played. Simply taking points per game for the last two years of play is an interesting calculation : mine was 7.0 and 6.5; French: 5.71 and 6.56. Go figure. Go Big Red.
Jim Trenz here. A few data points could help you and the CU Lax community. The single season highest scoring duo in points per game and goals per game in NCAA history is Trenz-French: 6.5 ppg and 6.71 ppg, respectively, and combined 7.85 goals per game in 1974. French had 5.71 and 6.56 ppg the next two years. My career 6.21 ppg was an NCAA record, as were career goals per game; and at Penn State the NCAA Single Season records of points per game 7.0, goals per game 4.2, and points in a Single game 13. Five NCAA Records in total. I don't know how many records French has, but he had overtaken me in three of them. Without many others- Jon Levine, Billy Marino, Hagerty, Bobby Mitchell, Sanford- helped French in 1974 when he had 4.5 gpg, his highest seasonal rate. What a nice guy! He was a great teammate. Without a supporting team, it's too difficult to achieve. The '74 team had two NCAA records, and still has the Ivy record for most goals in a season, and CU record of most goals in a game.
If you consider your comment of what-if French and Mac and Trenz were on the same team, who would have drawn the number 1 defenseman? Who would have played defensive middie to take away ball possession of a stalling team? What shame I didn't get use my last year of athletic eligibility and been on the '75 team. No, I had to graduate - in those days if you didn't get out in four years, there had better be a good reason.
I don't think having Mac only would have changed the 1974 Semifinal result - we didn't have the middies and faceoff expert, and other problems the subsequent teams didn't have. We did well and had a great fun, especially on bus rides...
The total number of points in a career is obviously a function of the number of games played. Simply taking points per game for the last two years of play is an interesting calculation : mine was 7.0 and 6.5; French: 5.71 and 6.56. Go figure. Go Big Red.
