1975 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

The 1975 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the fifth annual Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Eight NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met in the postseason single-elimination tournament to decide the national championship.

1975 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
Dates	May 1975
Teams	8
Finals site	Homewood Field Johns Hopkins University
Champions	Maryland (2nd title)
Runner-up	Navy
MOP	Bert Caswell and Frank Urso, Maryland Jeff Long, Navy
Attendance[1]	10,875 finals
NCAA Division I Men's Championships «1974 1976»

Tournament overview

The championship game was hosted by Johns Hopkins University and was played in front of 10,875 fans.

The title game saw the Terrapins of the University of Maryland defeat the Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy by the score of 20–13 for their second national title in three years. Frank Urso scored five goals in the finals for Maryland. The Terps took 62 shots in both the semi-finals and the finals. In the championship game, Maryland and Navy combined for 120 shots.

The national title game represented the 50th time the Middies and Maryland had met since the sport was put on Maryland's varsity list in 1924. The Terps’ season concluded with a five-game winning streak including victories over Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Washington & Lee and Navy. Navy had earlier in the season upset Maryland.

Bob DeSimone tied for the lead in goals for Navy with eight, scoring 4 goals in the finals. DeSimone would later transfer to Johns Hopkins helping lead the Blue Jays to the 1978 national title and the 1977 finals.

This was the first of four straight impressive tournament appearances by the Cornell attack of Mike French, Jon Levine, Bill Marino and Eamon McEneaney which resulted in titles for the Big Red in 1976 and 1977, as well as a tournament finals appearance in 1978. Cornell was 15 and 1 heading into the tournament and earned the top seed in this tournament. Cornell had defeated Navy handily earlier in the season, 16-7, but were upset by the 4th seeded Navy team in the tournament.

Jack Emmer's Washington and Lee team avenged a loss in the prior year's tournament with an upset of the top-ranked but second seeded Johns Hopkins in the quarterfinals.[2][3]

Tournament results

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Championship
	2	Johns Hopkins (9-1)	7
	7	Washington and Lee (10-6)	11
						7	Washington and Lee	5
						3	Maryland	15
	3	Maryland	19
	6	Hofstra	7
											3	Maryland (8–2)	20
											4	Navy (10–5)	13
	4	Navy	17
	5	Penn	6
						4	Navy	15
						1	Cornell	12
	1	Cornell	18
	8	Rutgers	5

Tournament boxscores

Tournament Finals

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Maryland (8–2)	6	3	4	7	20
Navy (10–5)	5	1	4	3	13
Maryland scoring – Frank Urso 5, Mike Hynes 3, Roger Tuck 3, Bill Gould 2, Doug Radebaugh 2, Bert Caswell, Jim Burnett, Mike Ferrell, Tony Morgan, Brooks Sleeper Navy scoring – Bob DeSimone 4, Fred Cook 3, Jeff Long 2, Jeff Connelly, Marty Mason, Mike Gurny, Jim Shulson Shots: Maryland 62, Navy 58

Tournament Semi-Finals

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Maryland	4	6	1	4	15
Washington and Lee	1	2	1	1	5
Maryland scoring – Doug Radebaugh 3, Bert Caswell 3, Roger Tuck 2, Gary Glatzel 2, Brooks Sleeper 2, Mike Hynes, Frank Urso, Bill Gould Washington and Lee scoring – Chris Larson 2, Jim Englehart, Jack Dudley, Ken Miller Shots: Maryland 62, Washington and Lee 38

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Navy	5	2	3	5	15
Cornell	0	4	5	3	12
Navy scoring – Bob DeSimone 3, Fred Cook 3, Jeff Connelly 3, Paul Gustin 2, Jeff Long, Bill Stulb, Mike Canders, Bob Holman Cornell scoring – Mike French 4, Jon Levine 3, Bill Marino 2, Eamon McEneaney, Dave Bray, Ted Marchell Shots: Cornell 51, Navy 42

Tournament Quarterfinals

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Washington and Lee	3	4	3	1	11
Johns Hopkins	1	2	2	2	7
Washington and Lee scoring – Donny Carroll 4, Chris Larson 2, Robin Major Morgan 2, Charlie Brown, Malcom Hastings, Jack Dudley Johns Hopkins scoring – Franz Wittlesberger 5, Rich Hirsch 2 Shots: Johns Hopkins 42, Washington and Lee 37

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Maryland	3	5	4	7	19
Hofstra	3	1	2	5	11
Maryland scoring – Frank Urso 3, Bert Caswell 3, Bob Gilmartin 3, Doug Radebaugh 2, Mike Hynes 2, Bert Olsen 2, Roger Tuck, Jim Burnett, Bob Brenton, Todd Bench Hofstra scoring – Tom Calder 4, Phil Marino, Chuck Rogener, Billy Ruggiero, Bob Hiller, Kevin Hill, Gary White, Ted Stefaniew Shots: Maryland 80, Hofstra 51

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Navy	3	1	4	9	17
Pennsylvania	2	3	0	1	6
Navy scoring – Jeff Connelly 3, Jeff Long 2, Marty Mason 2, Fred Cook 2, Skip Wagner 2, Paul Gustin, Bob DeSimone, Bill Claridge, Kevin McConnell, Mike Gurny, Jim Shulson Pennsylvania scoring – Peter Hollis 2, Bob Kilkowski, Peter Marin, Doug Sachse, Ralph McGee Shots: Navy 75, Pennsylvania 30

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Cornell	1	7	7	3	18
Rutgers	2	2	1	0	5
Cornell scoring – Mike French 6, Jon Levine 5, Tom Nolan 3, Eamon McEneaney, Al Haglund, Steve Dybus, Bill Marino Rutgers scoring – Mike Rinck 3, Jim Teatom, Bob Fornaro Shots: Cornell 40, Rutgers 29

Tournament outstanding players

Bert Caswell, Maryland, 14 points, leading tournament scorers

Frank Urso, Maryland, 14 points

Jeff Long, Navy, 14 points

• The NCAA did not designate a Most Outstanding Player until the 1977 national tournament. The Tournament outstanding players are listed here as the tournament leading scorers.

References

1. "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (pdf). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
2. "NCAA Lacrosse Division I Results / Records" (pdf). NCAA. p. 3 (51). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
3. United Press International. Terps Favored Over Navy in Stick Finals. THE CUMBERLAND EVENING TIMES. May 29, 1975. pg. 21

External links

• Sports Illustrated: Topsy-turvy Title For The Terps, Despite bad starts, Maryland and Navy ended up in the NCAA finals, June 09, 1975