CrosseCheck Lacrosse

04/02/2024

Happy birthday Shooter.
" I took the ball, and did it my way."
❤️❤️🥍🥍🍻🍻🎂🎂

04/02/2024

Happy Birthday father/shooter.
John Davis.
Thanks for the memories. Crossecheck.

15/01/2024

Father, John Shooter Davis with his new stick.
He can't wait to fine tune it.

13/01/2024

Al Gordaneer with Jim Higgs from the summer of 2022!

13/01/2024

The Jim Higgs Collection - Legend

13/01/2024

The Jim Higgs Collection - Oshawa

13/01/2024

Back in the summer of 2022, I was fortunate enough to be able to make the trip up to see my friends in Ontario. While staying with our good friend, Duffy McCarthy, in Muskoka, Jim Higgs, who played for and coached the Syracuse Stingers, the 1975 NLL champions in Quebec, and for Jim Bishop in Oshawa, sent along his collections for me to look at. After spending a couple of days going through everything, I was able to take some snapshots of his collection. I want to thank Jim for the following. The first of three parts.......these are the shots from his days playing in the NLL.

24/12/2023

From all of us at CrosseCheck Lacrosse......we wish you all a very, Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season!!

02/12/2023

Site redo is finished for now. Let us know what you think.

https://crossecheck.com/

Dave

29/11/2023

Good day to one and all. Letting everyone know that the site is currently down for a site redesign. Hope to have it finished by Christmas. Been having issues with plugins that were used prior, causing and creating more downtime than usual. Bear with us while we make this transition.

Dave

21/10/2023

Box lacrosse was invented in 1931, and took off like wildfire in Canada

Other than in some border cities, however, the sport made little impact in the United States

Which is why it was so odd that it should find a home in, of all places, Delaware County, Pennsylvania--just outside of Philadelphia

Enjoy this reproduction of a July 1939 article from The Delaware County Advocate about the new sport

New sport, derived from Indian game, growing popular in county Lacrosse, the oldest organized sport in America, was used by the Iroquois Indians as

21/10/2023

Here’s a couple AI-enhanced and colorized 1968 NLA Toronto Maple Leafs photos for you

17/10/2023

1913-14 Swarthmore lacrosse team in a colorized and AI enhanced photo

08/07/2023

CrosseCheck Lacrosse would like to congratulate our friend, Larry Lloyd, on his inductions to the 2023 Oshawa Sports Hall Of Fame and to the Ontario Lacrosse Hall Of Fame......

01/07/2023

While researching something else (I’m always researching something), I came across this from July 5, 1908

“The great *English* game”???

😂

03/02/2023

Another dead league we’ll get to chronicle

Alas

The audience was small during Friday night's last game in Trenton for the Professional Box Lacrosse Association.

31/12/2022

From my trip to Peterborough, at a local sports tavern, here's our own Duffy McCarthy, reminiscing about his good friend.....Rick Dudley!

31/12/2022

Season's Greetings and Happy New Year from all of us here at Crossecheck. We're ringing in the New Year, with the latest from are own John Davis Jr.!!

Season's greetings everyone, and all the best in 2023 from the Crossecheck team.This year Peterborough celebrated its 150th anniversary of lacrosse. It

27/11/2022

In 1931, box lacrosse was invented out of whole cloth in Ontario

While it spread like wildfire in the Great White North, it made few inroads in the States

Rochester and some other places close to the border? Sure…but nowhere else

Except…Delaware County, Pennsylvania?

Indeed, it did—by 1939, DelCo had a thriving box lacrosse league, featuring teams like the Chester Comets, Philadelphia Indians, and others

Here’s a photo of the box at Swarthmore—outdoor, dirt floor, and goalie equipment of dubious quality

Will I write about this league one day? Maybe. Depends on what you guys want

01/11/2022

Folks may want to check out today's Google doodle

23/10/2022

1968 NLA

15/10/2022

We are saddened to learn of the passing of a friend and former equipment manager of the 74-75 Philadelphia Wings, Tom Phillips.

His story about his time in Philadelphia can be found here:
http://crossecheck.com/2019/05/26/on-a-wing-and-some-players/

29/08/2022

Little John and big John.
Peterborough greats at tonights MSL finals. Game six. Peterborough advances to Mann cup. Going for four in a row.
Dad handing out the mvp award which is named after him to Peterborough goalie Doug Buchan.

13/08/2022

https://youtu.be/Yd1E6JxPb50https://youtu.be/Yd1E6JxPb50

Courtesy Of Travis Cook, player for the 1975 champion Quebec Caribous, this unseen footage highlights game action between the Caribous against Maryland, Mont...

22/07/2022

Me and my buddy....

22/07/2022

One excellent night!

21/07/2022

Pre-game...

21/07/2022

And so it goes.....

21/07/2022

Been that kind of day.....