SUNY College Cortland Digital Commons @ Cortland Men’s Lacrosse Documents Men’s Lacrosse 1974 1974 Team Guide, Men's Lacrosse State University of New York College at Cortland Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/menlacrosse_documents CORTLAND STATE LACROSSE 1974 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT CORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW Y ORK COLLEGE AT C ORTLAND CORTLAND, N.Y. 13045 Founded: 1868 Enrollment: 4,800 Undergraduate 1,200 Graduate Divisions: Arts and Sciences; Education; Health, Physical Education and Recreation Colors: Red and White Nickname: Red Dragons Director of Athletics: Francis J. Woods Tel. (607) 753-4963 Sports Information: Norbert W. Haley Tel. (607) 753-2518 Home Tel. 756-2323 ATHLETIC M EMBERSHIPS NCAA--National Collegiate Athletic Association ECAC--Eastern College Athletic Conference SUNYAC--State University of New York Athletic Conference NYSCTFA--New York State Collegiate Track and Field Association USILA--U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Assoc. NAGL-- North Atlantic Gymnastics League CORTLAND S TATE LACROSSE 1974 PRESS GUIDE Contents 1973 Varsity Lacrosse Results 2 Coaching S taff.. 3 Red Dragon Report 5 Varsity Roster 8 Junior Varsity Roster 10 1973 Statistics 14 Cortland's Series Record With 1974 Opponents..15 Cortland's Tournament S tandings 16 Cortland All-Americans 17 Cortland's North-South All-Star 18 Red Dragon Coaches and Records 19 Cortland Lacrosse Records 20 Junior Varsity Schedule 23 The College at Cortland 24 CORTLAND - COLLEGE LACROSSE CHAMPIONS Co-Captains John Espey, left, and Pete Graham w ith Coach Chuck Winters and 1973 USILA cha mpionship plaque. 1973 VARSITY LA CROSSE RESULTS 13 Wins, 2 Losses 6 Navy 11 12 Hobart 8 10 Massachusetts 8 19 Ithaca 9 16 Adelphi 8 16 Union 9 12 Brockport 5 11 *Adelphi 5 22 R.P.I. 5 9 *Massachusetts 3 20 Perm S tate 5 14 *Hobart 8 26 Syracuse 2 13 •Washington 8 5 Cornell 6 * USILA Tournament 2 COACHING STAFF CHUCK WINTERS Head Coa ch Heading into his second season as varsity lacrosse coach a t Cortland is Chuck Winters. His freshman year will be hard to match. Under Winters, the Red Drag ons w on the championship of the 1973 U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Tournament after capturing first place for the third straight year in the USILA's Central New York Divis ion. Cortland's 1973 record was 13-2. Winters was a ssistant lacrosse coach at Cortland f or two years under Jack Emmer, no w at Washington an d Lee.- Previously, he was an assist­ ant at Bowling Gre en whe re he earned bachelor's and m aster's degrees. He played mid field at Bowling Green, earned second team All-America honors and wa s twice named to All-Midwest squads. Elected team captain for two years, he also play­ ed in the North-South ga me as a senior. Winters studied for his master's degree in physical education at Bowling Gree n with the aid of a graduate assistantship. He al so taught soccer in addition to his work as assistant lac­ rosse coach at the Ohio sc hool. At Cortlan d, Winters also coaches JV socc er. His teams have co mpiled a 17-game win s treak over a three-year period. His 1973 J V club was 8-0. JERRY C ASCIANI Assistant Coach A member of the Cortland f aculty since 1970, Jerry Casciani is in his first season as assis­ tant lacrosse coach. He has served as assistant coach in football, JV wrestling coach and head wrestling coach. He i s a graduate of Springfield College and has a master's degree from Penn St ate. 3 BOB B UHMANN Assistant Coach A grad uate student at Cortland, Bob Buhmann went to Nassau Community College and Cornell Uni­ versity. He played goalie for Cornell lacrosse teams which were 11-0 in 1971 and 14-2 in 1972. It was the 1971 Cornell club which won t he first NCAA lac rosse tournament. Buhmann helped coach freshman lacrosse while at Cornell and worked with the Red Dragons as an assistant last year. LARRY "Bubba" KING Assistant Coach A Cort land alumnus, Larry King played four years of lacrosse for the Red Dragons and was the starting goal keeper as a sophomore. He wo n the Cortland Alumni Award for most improved player in the 1969 season. As a senior he made the transition from goal to attack. In 1972, King coached the Cortland freshman lacrosse team to a 5-3 record. He's in his second year as an assistant with the varsity while completing his work on a master's degree. LADDIE HORYL JV Coach Taking over as JV coach is Laddie Horyl , a native of Roslyn, N.Y. He has an A.A. degree from Nassau Community College and a B.S. in physical education from Bowling Green. As a lacrosse play­ er at Bowling Green, he was an attackman and was selected to play in the 1972 North-South game at Geneva, N.Y. 4 STAFF M EMBERS Mike Galvin Head Scout Terese Shekitka Varsity Manager Jeff Ameer Varsity Manager John Pierce Varsity Manager Dennis Marchesi JV Assistant Bob Haas JV A ssistant Jim Shreves JV A ssistant Steve Ryan JV A ssistant RED D RAGON REPORT By win ning the 1973 U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Tournament, Cortland State laid claim to its first national championship on a team basis. It was the 10th straight win­ ning lacrosse season for the Red Dragons who have been playing since 1964 with an .806 winning percentage. ****** Cortland's 1973 record was 13 wins and 2 losses. In the USILA tournament, Cortland defeated Adelphi, 11-5, Massachusetts, 9-3, Hobart, 14-8, and Washington College, 13-8. ****** On its way to the 1973 college title, Cortland captured its third consecutive championship of the USILA C entral New Yor k Division. Other teams in the division are Hobart, Syracuse, RPI, Union and Colgate. ****** Pete Graham w ill be Cortland's goalie^for the third straight year. A th ird team All-America choice in 1973, he set two new Co rtland records. He had 209 saves on the season, surpassing the 5 record of 203 he s et the year previously. He also holds the best save average per ga me in a single season, 13.9. • ••••• Senior John Espey, elected co-captain with Pete Graham, was a third team c hoice at midfield i n the Little All-America balloting in 1973. He scored 11 goals and had 9 a ssists during the championship season l ast year. Thirteen Cortland sen iors from la st year's championship tea m are departed through grad­ uation. Only eig ht members of the 1974 sq uad are seniors. Eight lettermen ar e back. Jud Smith w as Cortland's leading scorer a year ago as a freshman when he tallied 27 goals and had 28 as sists. He joined a select group of 12 players at Cortland who reac hed the 50-point total offensively in a single season. Coach C huck Win ters i s most excited about the potential of his midfielders. He sees little difference in the caliber of his first four lines and believes that such depth will make the Red Dr agons an even m ore potent scoring force than l ast year. In 1973, the Dragons av eraged 14 goals per game an d held the opposition to 6.6 per con test. • ••••• Cortland's starting attack line looks lik e it could be tw o sop homores a nd a freshman. Jud Smith of Massapequa is a sure starter and team­ ing with him in pre-season work has be en Eric Snider of Suffern, a sophomore who did n't play 6 at all last year because of an injured knee from JV basketball efforts, and freshman Phil Catalano of Syosset. Junior Kevin Mahoney of Lindenhurst is the only veteran front-line defenseman back. Junior Dave Cunningham of Babylon saw a ction but the third member of the defense's top three is a convert­ ed midfielder, senior Boku Hendrickson of New York City, a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School. Sophomore Dave G iorgis of No^th Syracuse will get plenty of playing time on defense too. • ••••• Three players have looked sharp in pre-season action on face-offs. They a re freshman Jim Burnett of Binghamton, junior Chuck Induddi of Hicksville and senior John Espey of Uniondale. Following the Hero's Tournament, Cortland opens its regular season at Massachusetts, and returns home to face Navy, Adelphi and Hobart in con­ secutive contests. With that sort of early season schedule, Coach Winters is hoping his young squad will mature rapidly. ****** Cortland will host the NCAA Col lege Division championship lacrosse game on Saturday, May 25 . It'sthe first year for a college division tourn­ ament so the USILA w ill not be repeating its tournament of the last two y ears. Hobart won in 1972 and Cortland in 1973. A major college NCAA tournament has been conducted for the past three years. 7 CORTLAND S TATE LA CROSSE 1974 VARSITY R OSTER Name Pos. Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown High School Abramson, Steve A Jr. 5' 11" 165 S. Farmingdale Farmingdale AT bora, Paul A Jr. 5'8" 155 Plainview Plainview Allen, Ken D Jr. 5'8" 185 P. Washington P. Washington Burnett, James M So. 6'0" 165 Binghamton Vestal Castle, Marty M So. 5111" 160 Syracuse Corcoran Catalano, Phil A Fr. 6'3" 190 Syosset Syosset Cunningham, David D Jr. 5" 10H' 173 Babylon W.