Cornell lacrosse 2023

[dag14]

If anyone attended the fall ball game and/or has updates on how it went or links to information, I am sure I am not the only one who would appreciate hearing any reports.

[Al DeFlorio]

If anyone attended the fall ball game and/or has updates on how it went or links to information, I am sure I am not the only one who would appreciate hearing any reports.

Go here and scroll down:  https://fanlax.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3667&start=200#p405431

Many top guys absent.  Probably same for MD.

[dag14]

Thanks for the link.  I used to log into LaXPower regularly, then it disappeared, I had disruption in my life and only this weekend did I realize that I didn't have a go-to site for miscellaneous lacrosse information.  So not only did I get the update I was looking for, I can now spend time following yet another forum.

[TimV]

Another scrimmage report

[Ken711]

Another scrimmage report

Mostly focused on Maryland in the report.

[TimV]

Would you like it better if it had a video?

[dbilmes]

Thanks to the Ivy League's oft-criticized rules about eligibility, nine Princeton seniors are entering the transfer portal. I'm assuming none of them can come play for Cornell!

[Al DeFlorio]

Goalie great Bob Rule passed away: https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/usa-insider/senior-men/bob-rule-cornell-all-american-and-hall-of-fame-goalie-dies-at-73

[Roy 82]

Goalie great Bob Rule passed away: https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/usa-insider/senior-men/bob-rule-cornell-all-american-and-hall-of-fame-goalie-dies-at-73

"In addition to being named Cornell's lacrosse team most valuable player in 1971, Rule was also a member of the Big Red's hockey team in 1969-70 as a backup goaltender, earning the unique distinction of being the first Cornell athlete to play on two national championship teams in different sports."

He was the first. Has there been anyone since?

[Swampy]

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Goalie great Bob Rule passed away: https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/usa-insider/senior-men/bob-rule-cornell-all-american-and-hall-of-fame-goalie-dies-at-73

A heartbreaking shame. I first met him a few years ago at an alumni event. I told him how I picked up my knowledge of lacrosse mostly by keeping the bench warm while playing club lacrosse in graduate school, and he smiled and said, I know what that's like." We both laughed because I thought I knew his history. He was backup goalie to Brian Cropper on the undefeated 1970 hockey team. He only got into 3 games that year, during garbage time. But I was mistaken about him in lacrosse.

I remembered he was a goalie in lacrosse too, but I confused him with Bob Buhmann. Buhmann did start in goal for Cornell's 1971 national championship lacrosse match against Maryland. But only when I read Christian Swezey's "We Showed Baltimore" this summer did realize that Rule was the team's starting goalie but didn't play in the championship game because of a knee injury.

Rule's personable humility immediately won me over, even though, or perhaps because, he never admitted he was the starter on the lacrosse team. As Swezey reports, when a writer noticed Buhmann's 22 saves in the championship game and that Buhmann was backup to Rule, the writer said, "Rule must be incredible."

From my brief encounter with Bob Rule and reading in Swezey's book about Rule's other exploits, I have to think the writer was correct.

RIP.

[billhoward]

Goalie great Bob Rule passed away: https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/usa-insider/senior-men/bob-rule-cornell-all-american-and-hall-of-fame-goalie-dies-at-73

Was about to note the other goalie on the 1971 championship season, passed recently: Bob Buhmann, who took Cornell through the playoffs when Bob Rule went down and made 22 saves in the 12-6 win over Maryland for the title. Except, damn, that was 2014. Time moves too quickly for some of us.

[Chris '03]

Schedule is out: https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/schedule?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

No.... Syracuse?! Marquette instead.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Schedule is out: https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/schedule?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

No.... Syracuse?! Marquette instead.

That sucks.  Probably not good for SOS.

[billhoward]

The 2023 Cornell men's lacrosse schedule shows no regular season game against Syracuse. A quick skim on the series rivalryI believe shows the last break in play was 1977 and 1978, the year after Cornell whupped Syracuse 24-6 (Cornell's 11th straight win), won the national championship and went 16-0.

Cornell was good and Syracuse was pretty bad in the 1970s. In fact after Syracuse's last win in 1965, until the break, Syracuse scored 2 2 5 8 7 9 3 3 4 5 6 goals while Cornell had five games of 19-26 goals. From 1988-1999 Syracuse won 13 games (including one championship game) but Cornell never threw in the towel.

[dbilmes]

Do we know for a fact that it was Syracuse 's choice not to play this year? Or is it just speculation, which many of us are prone to doing?