Cornell lacrosse 2023 end of season honors, postmortems

[billhoward]

Not quite understanding whatever criteria would be used such that five other people associated with the Cornell program would get in before him, but a nice acknowledgement nevertheless

Perhaps an overweighting of what the people did on Long Island before departing for elsewhere. Or: Eamon McEneaney may have been seen as cocky and if that's so, it didn't rub the sports elders the right way. He did make it into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1993.

[Swampy]

Not quite understanding whatever criteria would be used such that five other people associated with the Cornell program would get in before him, but a nice acknowledgement nevertheless

Perhaps an overweighting of what the people did on Long Island before departing for elsewhere. Or: Eamon McEneaney may have been seen as cocky and if that's so, it didn't rub the sports elders the right way. He did make it into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1993.

That 4 of the earlier 5 continued their careers as coaches may have had something to do with it. I can't find very much on Robert Henrickson, so he's a bit of a wild card.

[George64]

That 4 of the earlier 5 continued their careers as coaches may have had something to do with it. I can't find very much on Robert Henrickson, so he's a bit of a wild card.

Robert Henrickson '78 got his DVM from Cornell in '83 and practices in Manhasset, LI.
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[dag14]

I know nothing about Eamon's high school lacrosse experience so I am just offering another hypothesis.  Perhaps he was a late bloomer so not a star in high school?

[scoop85]

I know nothing about Eamon's high school lacrosse experience so I am just offering another hypothesis.  Perhaps he was a late bloomer so not a star in high school?

According to the book "We Showed Baltimore," Eamon was the most highly sought recruit in the country his senior year, so that's not the answer.

[scoop85]

I know nothing about Eamon's high school lacrosse experience so I am just offering another hypothesis.  Perhaps he was a late bloomer so not a star in high school?

According to the book "We Showed Baltimore," Eamon was the most highly sought recruit in the country his senior year, so that's not the answer.

[dag14]

I know nothing about Eamon's high school lacrosse experience so I am just offering another hypothesis.  Perhaps he was a late bloomer so not a star in high school?

According to the book "We Showed Baltimore," Eamon was the most highly sought recruit in the country his senior year, so that's not the answer.

Thanks for clarifying that.  I had no idea.  The lack of recognition sooner makes no sense in that case.

[billhoward]

I know nothing about Eamon's high school lacrosse experience so I am just offering another hypothesis.  Perhaps he was a late bloomer so not a star in high school?

McEneaney was a stud (ability, not size) in HS. He played an exhibition game at Cornell I believe at the end of his junior year and lit the place up. His game was all grown up and so was his mouth. He was not understated. But, it ain't braggin' when you can do it.

He also played a bit varsity not lightweight (now sprint) football, he was light even by the 1970s sprint limit of 158 (?) pounds but, senior year, he led Cornell in receiving, second in scoring.

Pound for pound, he was arguably Cornell's best football player. He also won the quote Tewaaraton Trophy as a lax senior, except back then it was the USILA Lt. Raymond Enners Memorial Award. He was Cornell MVP sophomore and senior year, Mike French '76 was MVP in between when French set all sorts of scoring records. Based on the fewer games played then, and only three varsity years, most Cornell records would still be held by those two on a goals, assists, points per game basis.

Those two were in the same league as Rob Pannell and Jeff Teat. Or vice versa. Teat and McEneaney were the same size give or take an inch and 5 pounds, and nobody pushed Eamon around the field.

[dag14]

I graduated in 1972 and returned to work at Cornell in summer of 1976 so although I only missed being on campus for 4 years of Cornell lacrosse, unfortunately they were some of the best.  If only the Internet had been "invented" 25-30 years sooner!

[Trotsky]

If only the Internet had been "invented" 25-30 years sooner!

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