2024 ALUMNI REUNION
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LACROSSE ALUMNI REUNION
Manitoba Lacrosse Alumni annual reunion will be held on Sunday, April 28 at the Elmwood Legion from 1-4 PM. The winner of the Sam Thompson "Good Guy" award will be announced. Bring a friend or...
2024 LACROSSE ALUMNI REUNION
Mark this event on your new 2024 calendar: MANITOBA LACROSSE ALUMNI REUNION (Featuring the presentation of the Sam Thompson Good Guy Award) SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024 1:00 - 4:00 PM AT ELMWOOD...
MANITOBA BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH BY SHAMROCKS
In 1957, Manitoba's representatives changed their name from the Winnipeg All Stars to the Winnipeg Combines. No reason for the name change was provided other than the team was combination of the...
'56 MANITOBA FALLS TO ONTARIO IN MINTO CUP SEMI'S
After the successes of 1954 and 1955 Minto Cup play downs, confidence is high in the Manitoba camp. This is even so with the loss of a number of players from the '55 team due to graduation and...
'55 WESTERN CANADIAN CHAMPS- 2ND MINTO CUP FINAL
Manitoba Junior All Star coach, Johnny Arondeus, bolstered the 1954 Eastern Canadian Junior Championship roster with the addition of top-notch juvenile players: Harry Nightingale, Gerry Kline,...
MANITOBA EASTERN CANADIAN JR. CHAMPS
Johnny Arondeous, coach of the Manitoba Junior All Stars, toughest task will be selecting the 17 players to represent Manitoba is Eastern Canadian Junior Lacrosse play downs. With most of the...
'53 TEAM UNDONE BY INCONSISTENT PLAY
After improved performances in the last two Minto Cup play downs, the Manitoba Lacrosse Association, under advisement from Jim O'Dowda, changed the way the team would be selected. For the last...
'52 MANITOBA MIRACLE
The 1952 version of the Manitoba Lacrosse Junior All Stars had many familiar faces with five players having Minto Cup experience, led by goal tender Clarke Hicks playing in his fourth Cup. What...
CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR
The Winnipeg Tribune described the 1950 Eastern Canadian Junior lacrosse play off between the St. Catherine's Athletics and the Manitoba All Starts this way: "The thrill that local lacrosse fans...
THE SECOND GREAT ERA OF LACROSSE IN WINNIPEG
In the late '30's and '40's minor lacrosse lay dormant in Winnipeg and Manitoba for more than eight years until the arrival of Tom O'Brien from Brampton, Ontario. Tom. A long time lacrosse...
DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN
The decline in popularity of the game of lacrosse in Winnipeg can be directly linked to the Winnipeg School Division's decision to end the Winnipeg Schools Lacrosse League is 1929. The loss of...
LACROSSE IN WINNIPEG SCHOOLS 1901 - 1928
Robert Smith, a fine lacrosse player in Ontario, joined the Winnipeg School Board in 1893. His experience in organizing lacrosse (secretary for the Winnipeg Lacrosse Club) and enthusiastic belief...
WINNIPEG- GOLD MEDAL WINNER
Ironically, while Manitoba has never captured a national championship in lacrosse, it did produce the Winnipeg Shamrocks- winners of the 1904 Gold Medal at the St. Louis Olympics. The Shamrocks...
GOLDEN ERA OF LACROSSE IN MANITOBA
In the early 1900's the game was 12 player aside Field Lacrosse. It was played across Winnipeg and in the small towns of South West Manitoba, by immigrants from Southern Ontario, attracted...