The 1st NCAA Lacrosse Championship was also my first lacrosse game. Traffic from my home in Queens to Hofstra was heavy. Cononero II was running in the Belmont Stakes that afternoon for the Triple Crown. Over 100,000 was expected at Belmont Park in nearby Elmont, NY.
Hofstra had the first "AstroTurf" on a college campus. The AFL's NY Jets had their training camp there. Only Houston's Astrodome, home of the MLB Astros, had "artificial" turf (i.e. AstroTurf) in pro sports. Americans were still going to the moon in those days.
Maryland and Cornell's school colors are both Red & White. Maryland's players were 50/50 - NY/MD and Cornell almost all NYers, but Cornell's star was Canadien Al Rimmer who the Terps could not stop all day.
The Terps were playing catch up all day, but never did catch the "Big Red." Cornell won 12-6. Per the scoring I kept, Al Rimmer had 6 goals. I wanted him deported.
The attendance was reported in the paper at 5,500 or so. I would have guessed two or three thousand tops.
It was the last time I bought a program for 25 cents.
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