1938: Lacrosse

Lacrosse in 1938 had its biggest season and more than 100 teams, representing colleges, schools, and clubs were seen in action. In no previous season have so many new colleges and schools taken up the game. The 1938 Lacrosse season was featured by the expansion of the game particularly into the far South where the Dixie League functioned for the first time. The championship of the league which was composed of Washington and Lee, American University, University of Virginia, North Carolina University and Duke was won by Virginia.

The team representing the United States Naval Academy, with a clean sweep of its schedule, wrested the collegiate championship from the 1937 coholders, Princeton and University of Maryland. The Middies finished their schedule with a 10-3 victory over the Cadets of West Point, the largest margin ever piled up in the series between the two academies. Navy was awarded the Wingate Memorial Trophy which is presented annually by the United States Inter-Collegiate Lacrosse Association to the outstanding team of the year.

Following Navy as the strong teams of the country were Maryland, Princeton, Hobart, Army, Rutgers and St. John's of Maryland. The Mount Washington Club of Baltimore led the club teams, while Alexander Hamilton of Brooklyn and Friends School of Baltimore dominated the preps. An All-Star team from Brooklyn beat Friends 8-7 in a post season game.

The stick game was played from Bowdoin in Maine to Georgia and Georgia Tech in the South with box-lacrosse, an abbreviated version being played at isolated points all over the country. This hybrid of the game claimed 10,000 players in the Vancouver-Westminster section of Canada.

Spectator interest varied from 1,000 to 15,000 per game with major interest in the Army-Navy game; and the Navy-Maryland game was won by Navy 8-7 and represented Maryland's first loss in three years.