1976 NCAA Men's Lacrosse National Championship - extended version
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- The 1976 NCAA Division I tournament championship game was played at Brown University in front of 7,504 fans. The undefeated Cornell Big Red, led by lacrosse Hall of Famers Richard M. Moran, Mike French and Eamon McEneaney, defeated Maryland with hall-of-famer Frank Urso, 16 to 13 in overtime. Throughout the 1970s, Cornell University was dominant in lacrosse with four final appearances and three titles and the 1976 and 1977 versions of the Big Red are generally considered to be among the best college lacrosse teams of all time.
For the first time in NCAA tournament history, two undefeated teams, No. 1 Maryland and No. 2 Cornell, would meet in the championship game. The game did not disappoint as Cornell down 7-2 at halftime, outscored Maryland 6-2 in the third period to pull within one goal entering the final period. The Terps opened the fourth period with a goal to go up 10-8, but the next four tallies belonged to the Cornell who led 12-10 with three minutes to play. Maryland, however, would get back-to-back goals, including a buzzer-beater, to knot the game and send the contest into overtime. After an initial tally by the Terps' Terry Kimball, the Cornell would score four unanswered goals to claim the crown with a 16-13 victory. Mike French tied the then-NCAA tournament single-game scoring record, finishing the day with seven goals and four assists.
Cornell earlier in the tournament recorded the only shutout in NCAA tournament history when they blanked Washington and Lee 14 to 0 during the first round. In a 22-11 semifinal win against Navy, Maryland's Ed Mullen had 7 goals and 5 assists to set the tournament record of 12 total points in one game.
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I was in attendance at that game at Brown. The better team won. Please dispense with the ifs and buts.
Mac and French.
The field conditions here were terrible by today's standards.
Its real
My coach carried coach urso on top
Urso was a beast! Back when the game was played the way it supposed to be played....up and down with a flow highlighting the stick skills.
It’s pronounced “Mack-eh-see”
You can see the back of my head at 10:29 into the video with Richie Moran yelling at me just because I said there were too many men on the field and it was an illegal substitution and had the zebra blow the horn and Ron O'Leary threw a flag to stop the game with :06 in regulation.
just noticed the game wasn't sudden death back then but an extra quarter, of reduced time?
Tuck was a beast who along with Frank Urso made folks shake when that midfield took the field. Coach Beardmore's juggernaut offense was crippled by not having Hynes and Tuck.
Beautiful lacrosse, stellar game
Here's what nobody ever talks about from this classic: Maryland came in missing a ton of firepower. Starters Mike Hynes (A) and Kevin Boland (M) were out with injuries and in the first quarter Terps lost a third starter, Roger Tuck (A), to a broken sternum, Hynes and Tuck played on extra-man offense, ranked No. 1 in the country. In the first half alone, Maryland was only 2-of-9 on EMO's and that accounted for its slim 7-2 lead. If Terps are at all full strength, it's a whole 'nother ballgame.
Farrell allowed Eamon McEneaney, one of the best ever attackmen, who perished from the terrorist's attack on September 11, 2001, only one goal and one assist.
the ball was one the turf more than half the game, the game has been changed too much with these ultra deep pockets of today, kind of a shame, these old timers had a lot of skill to play with basically a tennis racket
The game evolved.
Richie Moran has no idea how lucky he was that day not to see the Maryland team at full strength! If the Terps had gone back-to-back in '75 and '76, they'd be considered one of the greatest teams of all time.
Agree with Mitch Lawrence. Mike Hynes was an assist machine. Yes, we didn't have an answer for Mike French but the best defenseman I ever saw, Mike Farrell shut down one of the best attackmen in the country. Rocky Boland would have helped in the midfield too.
quite a game.
No question. With Tuck and Hynie-ho playing Terps would have controlled the ball a lot more and scored more. We still didn't have an answer for Mike French, though. Rocky Boland would have helped as he was fundamentally sound and a real heady player but may not have altered the game. I am glad I got the ref to blow the horn with less than a minute left and we got the ball back so Urso could feed Rumpf. Ron O'Leary was really pissed at me through the 77 season.
I got no use for Richie Moran: He screwed Mike Hynes out of a berth on the '78 USA team (and Stan Cockerton then stuck it up his ass in Stockport, England, for Team Canada!). He screwed John Mutch out of his senior season at Cornell. He isn't doing jack to help the late Gil Gibbs, who put New Jersey on the lacrosse map in the '70's with his Montclair powerhouses, get into the National Hall of Fame.
Most of these guys wouldn't make a good high school team today
That’s simply not true. Sticks back then didn’t have the pockets and the hold of todays sticks.
@@elijahhartle749 you have no idea what you are talking about