New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League Records 1893-1977 1903-1963

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New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League Records 1893-1977 1903-1963

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When Charles Marsters founded the Boston Lacrosse Club in 1913, the club was the only one in New England to play teams from outside of the region. Under Marsters's leadership, however, participation in the sport rose steadily at both the high school and collegiate level, helping establish New England as one of the centers of the American game. In 1935, he and Tom Dent founded the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League (NEILL) to continue to build the sport. The NEILL records document the growth of lacrosse from informal club team play to a more regulated, interscholastic and intercollegiate varsity sport. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, minutes, and agendas kept by co-founder Charles Marsters and a handful of other NEILL officers, but with material documenting the growth of the sport at UMass Amherst from the 1950s onward and the addition of women's lacrosse as a collegiate sport. The collection also includes some printed material (including rulebooks), news clippings, and photographs.

9 boxes; (5.5 linear ft.)

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Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Boyden, Frank L. (Frank Learoyd), 1879-1972

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Boyden, educator, was born in 1879 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. He attended Amherst College, graduating in the Class of 1902. He served as headmaster of Deerfield Academy from 1902 until 1969. He died in 1972. From the description of Boyden papers, 1879-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51957725 Frank L. Boyden was headmaster of Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA from 1903-1968. From the description of Letter, August 19, 1946. (Naval War College). WorldCat record ...

Marsters, Charles E.

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University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League

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Files kept by Charles E. Marsters, co-founder of the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League (NEILL), and other NEILL officers show the growth of lacrosse from informal club team play to a more regulated, interscholastic and intercollegiate varsity sport. From the description of New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League records, 1893-1977 (bulk 1903-1963). (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52938652 One of the major figures in the g...