Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, The Second Edition of the Bob Scott Classic

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JHU Press, Jun 1, 2006 - Sports & Recreation - 312 pages

For thirty years Bob Scott's Lacrosse has been the ultimate guide to the "fastest game on two feet," explaining the men's game at its highest level and promoting the Johns Hopkins philosophy, which has become synonymous with lacrosse excellence.

In this long-awaited updated edition, Coach Dave Pietramala, whose Blue Jays won the 2007 and 2005 NCAA men's lacrosse championships, and Neil Grauer, a Hopkins graduate and veteran writer on lacrosse, among other subjects, have reworked every chapter, modernizing sections on rules, equipment, preparation, and tactics. They revisit topics such as drills and skills for specific positions, game strategy, clearing tactics, and the history of the game itself—including a section on the Johns Hopkins contributions to lacrosse. New diagrams and images help to clarify concepts and instructions in the text. Action and instructional photos by Hopkins photographer James Van Rensselaer capture some of the drama from the 2005 championship year and accompany the teaching chapters.

Like the Bob Scott book on which it builds, this edition will soon become familiar to every serious student of the sport.

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Contents

The Game of Lacrosse
3
A Brief History
9
The Rules
31
What Makes a Player
39
Fundamentals
49
Individual Offense
61
Team Offense
77
Extraman Offense
93
ManDown Defense
151
Goaltending
167
Clearing
183
Riding
195
Faceoffs
205
Drills
215
Building the Tradition 18831974
229
The Modern Era 19752000
249

Individual Defense
105
Team Defense
117
Transition
133
Into the 21st Century
265
Index
285
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Page 37 - A team is considered offside when it has fewer than three men in its attack half of the field or fewer than four men in its defensive half of the field.
Page 61 - A maneuver used to prevent the opponents from clearing the ball from the defensive to the offensive half of the field.
Page 36 - Hitting an opponent from the rear, at or below the knees, above the shoulders, or when he is not in possession of the ball or within five yards of a loose ball.
Page 133 - A team gains possession of the ball in its defensive half of the field...
Page 36 - Illegal body checking. Hitting an opponent from the rear, at or below the knees...
Page 99 - They will move behind only to pass the ball from one side of the field to the other between themselves.
Page 68 - How much time you put into it is how much you will get out of it.
Page 68 - This statistic can be determined by adding the number of goals scored by a team and the number of saves by its opponent's goalie to give the total number of shots on goal.

About the author (2006)

David Pietramala is head coach of the Johns Hopkins University's men's lacrosse team. A 1990 graduate of Hopkins, he is the only person to win the NCAA Division I lacrosse championship as both a player (1987) and head coach (2005 and 2007). Twice winner of the William C. Schmeisser Award as the nation's top defenseman, the 1989 winner of the Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award as the nation's top player, and a three-time first-team All-American, he is regarded as having been one of the finest defensemen of all time. Neil A. Grauer is an award-winning author, freelance journalist, and caricaturist. A third generation graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, he is the author of six books, including Wits & Sages(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), a series of profiles and caricatures of leading syndicated columnists, and Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press, 1994).

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