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From 1976 to 1978 the Cornell mens lacrosse team went on a tear Winning two national championships and posting an overall record of 421 the Big Red coached by Richie Moran were the class of the NCAA game Christian Swezey tells the story of the rise of this dominant lacrosse program and reveals how Cornells success coincided with and sometimes fueled radical changes in what was once a minor prep school game centered in the Baltimore suburbs

Led on the field by the likes of Mike French and Eamon McEneaney in the mid1970s Cornell was an offensive powerhouse Moran coached the players to be in fast constant movement That technique paired with the advent of synthetic stick heads and the introduction of artificial turf fields made the Cornell offensive game swift and lethal It is no surprise that the first NCAA championship game covered by ABC Television was Cornell vs Maryland in 1976

Swezey recounts Cornells dramatic games against traditional powers such as Maryland Navy and Johns Hopkins and gets into the strategy and psychology that Moran brought to the team Pulling from interviews with more than ninety former coaches and players from Cornell and its rivals We Showed Baltimore paints a vivid picture of lacrosse in the 1970s and how Moran and the Big Red helped create the game of today