Team Annual Results

Record: 1-0-1 Scores/Schedule:  

• CCNY 4, NYU 0  
• CCNY 0, Jersey City 0   

Roster: 

Mitchell, Curry, Nelson, Thumm, Munzesheimer, Crawford, Hackett, Earle, Brussels, Heyman, Monks, Doremus Coach: N/A Stats: N/A   

Notes:   

• This was the first year of CCNY lacrosse. The team played a partial season.  
• The sport was introduced by CCNY tutor, Harvey Mitchell   

Record: 1-4 Scores/Schedule:  

CCNY 0, Stevens 13  

CCNY 0, Rutgers 4  

CCNY 2, NJAC 4  

CCNY 3, NJAC 2  

CCNY 1, Rutgers 2   

Roster: 

Mitchell, John P Curry (Captain), Nelson, Thumm, Crawford, Hackett, Earle, Van Vleck, Bell, Kelly, Monks, Oakes, Bernard M Baruch Coach: Professor Stratford (Manager) Stats: N/A   

Notes:   

• This was the first “full” season of lacrosse at CCNY. 
• Bernard “Shorty” Baruch was the tallest man on campus and on the lacrosse team. The College Journal of May 23, 1888 had the following message for Baruch: “Never mind,  ‘Shorty’, if you aren’t a success at lacrosse you are at everything else.” He would go on to advise 7 different US Presidents. 

Record: 2-3 (incomplete)  

• CCNY 1, Brooklyn 4  
• CCNY 3, NJAC 2  
• CCNY 0, Stevens 2  
• CCNY 3, Stevens 2  
• CCNY 1, Rutgers 5  
• CCNY vs Rutgers  
• CCNY vs Stevens  
• CCNY vs Brooklyn  

Roster: 

Mitchell, Curry, D. Nelson (Captain), Thumm, Crawford, Hackett, Oakes, Kelly, Trimble, H. Nelson, Harrison, MacIntyre, Bernard M Baruch Coach: Mr. Mitchell (Manager) Stats: N/A   

 Notes:  

• 1889 marked CCNY’s first ever win over Stevens.  The 4-1 loss to Brooklyn was in the championship game for the Metropolitan Lacrosse League. According to the NY Times, it was played on April 13 th , 1899 on the Prospect Park Parade Ground in front of 500 spectators. (NY Times article published April 14, 1889)  
• In a 2-0 loss against Stevens, a helmetless James J K Hackett was knocked out by a ball to the head and had to be carried from the field. (NY Times article published May 3, 1889)  Hackett would later go on to become a famous Hollywood actor.  
• After losing to Stevens 2-0 in Hoboken, the two teams met again 2 days later in Central Park, JB Curry, C.F. Thumm, and Oakes all scored goals in a 3-2 win for City, with Thumm netting the game winner to break a 2-2 tie late in the game. (NY Times article published May 5, 1889) 

Record: 1-1-3  

CCNY 2, Brooklyn 4  

CCNY 1, Staten Island 6 

 CCNY 2, Lehigh 2  

CCNY 3, Lehigh 0   

Roster: 

Mitchell, H. Nelson (Captain), Thumm, Greenbaum, Hackett, Oakes, Angel, Whiting, D. Nelson, Lutz, McIntyre, Ginsberg Coach: Mr. Mitchell (Manager)  Stats: N/A   1890 

Notes:   

• 1890 marked the first time CCNY played Lehigh, resulting in a tie and a win for CCNY. 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for years 1887 through 1890 is from the MICROCOSM, 1890, published the Secret Fraternities and the Eiponian Literary Society of the College of the City of New York.

Record: 9-1 Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 9, Rutherford LC 1 – Sept 26, 1891 
• CCNY 11, Staten Island 1 – Oct 3, 1891 
• CCNY 9, Central Park LT 0 – Oct 10, 1891 
• CCNY 3, NYAC 1 – Oct 17, 1891 
• CCNY 15, Rutherford LC 0 – Oct 24, 1891 
• CCNY 7, Montclair AC 3 – Oct 31, 1891 
• CCNY 2, Montclair AC 1 – Nov 3, 1891 CCNY 8, Central Park LT 0 – Nov 14, 1891 
• CCNY 2, Manhattan AC 3, Nov 28, 1891 – Game was played at Madison Square Garden
• CCNY 4, 22nd Regiment LT 1, Feb 12, 1892

Record: N/A 

• CCNY vs Stevens – April 15, 1892 CCNY vs Staten Island AC – May 7, 1892 
• CCNY vs Lafayette – May 19, 1892 
• CCNY vs Manhattan AC – May 21, 1892 
• CCNY vs Lorillard AC – May 28, 1892 
• CCNY vs NYAC – June 25, 1892 
• CCNY vs Staten Island AC – June 18, 1892 CCNY vs Stevens – June 18, 1892 
• CCNY vs Astoria AC – June 11, 1892 CCNY vs Rutherford LC – July 
• CCNY vs Lorillard AC – July 

Officers: H. Rice – President, J. White Jr. – Vice President, E.R. Maguire – Secretary, L.B. Ginsburg – Treasurer Roster: L B Ginsberg (Point), G Whiting (Cover Point), P White (1st Defence) R Rice (2nd Defence), CR Maguire (3rd Defence), E Spahr (Home) C Smith (Outside Home), J H Greenbaum (Capatain and 1st Attack), G F Sutorius (2nd Attack), M P Oppenehimer (3rd Attack), L Bowman (Goalie) Substitutes: H Mitchell, C B Kilmer, J White Jr, F A Sutrius, H Meinken, W H Swanson, C E Wolf Coach: H. Mitchell (Manager) Stats: N/A

Notes:  

• The CCNY vs Manhattan AC game, played on Nov 28, 1891 was played at Madison Square Garden, and numerous games were played in the North Meadows of Central Park.  
• With a 2-1 win over Montclair AC on Nov 3, 1891, CCNY won the Silver Lacrosse Trophy.  
• CCNY may not have been a member of the Metropolitan Lacrosse Association in 1891, but they defeated the MLA champions, New York AC, 3-1, and only lost one post season exhibition game, against Manhattan AC. With NYC serving as the biggest lacrosse locale at the time, it could be argued the CCNY lacrosse team was one of the best in the world in 1891-92. 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for years 1891 through 1892 is from the MICROCOSM, 1892, published the Junior Class of the College of the City of New York. 

Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 1, Johns Hopkins 9 (1893) 

Notes:  

• From the Fall of 1892 through the Spring of 1894, due to a lagging interest in the game nationwide, lacrosse was not played in a formal capacity at CCNY, and a number of other colleges saw the same drop in interest, but students did organize occassional games on their own. One of those rare games was an 1893 contest with Johns Hopkins (source: https://hopkinssports.com/documents/2019/3/7/Print_Version_3_7_19_.pdf, page 98).  
• By the fall of 1894, there were only four men on the City College campus with much lacrosse experience. 
• Lacrosse was officially suspended altogether in 1894

Record: 3-1 Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 10, South Orange FC 1 
• CCNY 2, Brooklyn Polytechnic 0 
• CCNY 1, Stevens 7 
• CCNY 4, Brooklyn Polytechnic 0 

Notes:

• While the year started with only 4 lacrosse players on campus, the year ended with over 40 students having tried the sport at some point.  
• The biggest obstacle for the team was a lack of a permanent practice facility. 
• The phrase “learn to labor and to wait” was coined on campus in regards to the future of athletics at CCNY. 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for years 1892 through 1895 is from the MICROCOSM, 1896, published the Fraternities and Literary Societies of the College of the City of New York

Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 4, Cornell 2 
• CCNY 0, Stevens 9 
• CCNY vs Crescent AC 

Roster: 

Cremin (Goal 1898), William Ballantine Boyd (Captain and Point 1897), Holton (Cover Point 1898), Schwartz (1st Defense 1898), Grassi, (2nd Defense 1899), Heath (3rd Defense 1900), Newman (3rd Defense 1899), F Boyd (Centre 1899), Eyer (3rd Attack 1900), Bradley (2nd Attack 1900), Pfletchinger (1st Attack 1898), Fendrick (Outside Home 1899), Wade (Inside Home 1897)Coach: Frederick Myers Dearborn (Manager) Substitutes: Simpson 1900, Briner 1900, Stratton 1900, Randolph 1899, Foehrenbach 1897, Neidlinger 1898 Stats: N/A 

Notes:  

• This is CCNY’s first documented win over Cornell (source: https://cornellbigred.com/documents/2020/10/7/Cornell_vs_All_Opponents.pdf)  
• The 9-0 loss to Stevens was played at the St. George’s Cricket Club grounds on April 29, 1896 (NY Time article published on April 30, 1896)

1897 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 1, Johns Hopkins 2 (source: https://hopkinssports.com/documents/2019/3/7/Print_Version_3_7_19_.pdf page 98) 

Roster: N/A Coach: N/A Stats: N/A 

Notes: 

•  In 1897, according to the NY Times, the CCNY Lacrosse team won the North American Championship.(source: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/11/sports/city-collegelacrosse-shock.html, May 11, 1988 – now online) 
• In 1897, the Crescent AC sent a touring team to England, and two former CCNY players were on the team. Giles Whiting and John P Curry helped the team to a 7-5-2 record against England and Ireland’s best lacrosse players (source: Lacrosse, A History of the Game, Donald P. Fisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967)
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for years 1892 through 1897 is from the MICROCOSM, 1897, of the College of the City of New York

1898 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY vs Crescent Athletic Club – April 16 
• CCNY vs Lehigh – April 30 CCNY vs Crescent Athletic Club – April 30 
• CCNY vs Stevens – May 4 CCNY 4, Cornell 1 – May 17 
• CCNY vs Montclair AC – May 27 

Roster: 

Cremin (Goal), Holton (Point), Feuerbach (Cover Point), Neidlinger (1st Defense), Worthman (2nd Defense), Colwell (3rd Defense), Boyd (Centre), Simpson (3rd Attack), Fendrick (2nd Attack), Frederick Pfletschinger (1st Attack and Captain), Briner (Outside Home), Moran (Inside Home) Coach: Robert W Boyd (Manager) Stats: N/A 

Notes:

• This was CCNY’s last game against Cornell, giving CCNY an all-time record of 2-0 vs the Big Red (source: https://cornellbigred.com/documents/2020/10/7/Cornell_vs_All_Opponents.pdf) All information, unless otherwise note

Record: 2-2 Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 0, Stevens 3 
• CCNY 0, Lehigh 5 
• CCNY 7, Staten Island 4 
• CCNY 3, Lehigh 2 

Roster: 

Eugene C Gibney (Goal), H Miles Holton (Point), Lawrence EJ Feurbach (Cover Point), Deane Stratton (1st Defence), Chas R Neidlinger (2nd Defence), Otto J A Grassi (3rd Defence), Robert W Boyd (Centre), Wallace L Cremin (3rd Attack), Otis B McIntyre (2nd Attack), Charles Fendrich (1st Attack), Harold P Moran (Outside Home), Harry A Fisher (Inside Home) Substitutes: Herbert S Jacoby, Henry G Wurthman, Robert A Adams Coach: Harold P Moran (Manager) Stats: N/A

 Notes:

• The Knickerbocker Athletic Club hosted a “Decoration Day Games” tournament in Bergen Point, NJ on May 30th, 1899 where CCNY defeated Lehigh (3-2) to win the championship banner.
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for 1899 is from the MICROCOSM of the College of the City of New York. 

Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 0, Lehigh 14 
• CCNY vs Crescent AC 
• CCNY vs Staten Island CC 
• CCNY vs Lehigh 
• CCNY vs UPenn 
• CCNY vs Swarthmore 

Roster: 

Eugence C Gibney (Goal), Charles Fendrich (Point), Laurence Freuerbach (Cover Point), Bernard Ruge (1st Defence), Harry A Fisher (2nd Defence), Otto J H Grassi (3rd Defence), Arthur Boylan, Herbert Jacoby (Captain), Charles Herman, Robert Rosenfeld, Harold P Moran, Robert Adams Coach: Harold Moran (Manager) Stats: N/A 

Notes:  

• A number of athletic records, of the track and field variety were held by CCNY lacrosse players. Stratton (200M), Earle (1/4 Mile), Grassi (long jump), and Feuerbach (throwing events) all held different track and field records while at CCNY. (1903 Microcosm) 
• Sources: CCNY’s Lacrosse Team – NY Times April 8, 1900 CCNY Beaten at Lacrosse – NY Times April 29, 1900 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for 1899 and 1900 is from the MICROCOSM, 1900, of the College of the City of New York. 

Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 0, Columbia 3 
• CCNY 4, Harvard 7 
• CCNY 0, Lehigh 7 
• CCNY 1, Johns Hopkins 7 
• CCNY 0, Swarthmore 

Roster: 

Harold P Moran (Captain), Bernard Ruge, Felix Frankfurter Coach: Bernard Ruge (Manager) Stats: N/A 

Notes:  

• Felix Frankfurter was a member of the team and would go on to found the ACLU and become a Supreme Court Justice 
• (https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/14/nyregion/frankfurter-paid-tribute-as-citycollege-reminisces.html)  
• The 1939 Official Lacrosse Guide, part of the annual Spalding’s Athletic Library, claimed that the 1901 CCNY Lacrosse team won the intercollegiate championship, in an article titled “Lacrosse in the New York Metropolitan Area, by F.M. (Touch) Touchstone, a longtime lacrosse coach at Army. (source: 1939 Official Lacrosse Guide, Spalding’s Athletic Library) 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for 1901 is from the MICROCOSM, 1901, of the College of the City of New York

 Record: 1-7 (incomplete) Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 1, Crescent LC 3 
• CCNY 1, Orange 7 
• CCNY 0, Hobart 6 
• CCNY 1, Lehigh 5 
• CCNY 4, Harvard 7
•  CCNY vs Orange 5 (loss) 
• CCNY vs Columbia 1 (win)
•  CCNY 3, Hobart 4 

Roster: 

C Stewart (Goal 1905), LC Johannsen (Point 1903), B Ruge (Cover Point 1902), S Baum (1st Defense 1902), E Hamilton (2nd Defense 1903), S Stark (3rd Defense 1903), E Stewart (Centre 1903), D Solow (3rd Attack 1903), Orlando Kegelman (Captain), Felix Frankfurter (1902) Coach: Louis C Johannsen (Manager) 

 Record: Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 6, Crescent AC 8 – April 4 (NY Time article April 5, 1903 “Lacrosse Season Opens”
• CCNY vs Columbia – April 8 CCNY vs UPenn – April 11 
• CCNY 1, Swarthmore 11 – April 15 (swarthmore record book, NY Times article April 16, 1903 CCNY Beaten at Lacrosse)
• CCNY vs NYLC – April 18 
• CCNY vs Columbia – April 22 
• CCNY vs UPenn – April 25 
• CCNY vs Stevens – April 29 
• CCNY vs Cornell – May 1 
• CCNY vs Hobart – May 2 
• CCNY 2, Harvard 6 – May 9 (Harvard record book, NY Times article May 10, 1903 “Harvard Wins at Lacrosse”) 
• CCNY vs Hobart – 
• May 15 May 16 - unknown 
• May 20 - unknown 

Roster: 

Charles Stewart (Goal), Alfred C Bogler (Point), John S Rae (Cover Point) Louis J Johannsen (1st Defense), Gordon M Evans (2nd Defense), Samuel Stark (3rd Defense), Conrad Norman (Centre), Orlando Kegelman (Captain and 3rd Attack), Edward J Donohue (2nd Attack), Royal E Clarke (1st Attack), Robert Donohue (Out Home), Ralph Adams (In Home), Substitutes: Salzer, Dixon, Hubert, Schultze, Maloney, Fenno Coach: Louis J Johannsen (Manager) 

Stats: 

Ralph Adams – 1 goal vs Swarthmore, 3 goals vs Crescent AC, 1 goal vs Harvard; Robert Donahue – 1 goal vs Crescent AC; Royal E Clarke – 1 goal vs Crescent AC; John S Rae – 1 goal vs Crescent AC; Edward J Donahue – 1 goal vs Harvard 

Notes:  

• This team was reported to have won the US National Collegiate Championship by the NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/11/sports/city-college-lacrosse-shock.html). Before the formation of the USILL in 1905, there were a number of different National College Lacrosse associations, and each crowned its own champion. Numerous mentions are made of the 1903 team’s success in campus papers and journals from the era. The team likely played in the Metropolitan Lacrosse Association at the time.  
• Rumors are that there was a 15-pound, 3 foot long silver lacrosse stick in the Wingate trophy cases with the date 1903, CCNY, and a Toronto Lacrosse Club team name on it for years. It disappeared in the early 1970s and has not been seen on campus since.  
• The University of Toronto Lacrosse Club was formed in 1892, and they won the collegiate championship in their first year of existence. In 1903, it is recorded that they bested Johns Hopkins in the North American championship game. Through 1930 (a year they played and beat CCNY 9-2), the University of Toronto regularly beat the best American college teams. The games were discontinued when the enormous amount of travel became too difficult for Toronto to continue to participate against US colleges. (The Lacrosse Story, Weyand and Roberts, page 51-52) 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for 1902 and 1903 is from the MICROCOSM 1903 and the MICROCOSM 1904, of the College of the City of New York.

 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY vs Crescent AC – April 2
• CCNY vs Harvard – April 9 
• CCNY vs Stevens – April 13 
• CCNY vs UPenn – April 16 
• CCNY vs Bay Ridge LT – April 22 
• CCNY vs Swarthmore – April 23 
• CCNY vs GNYIAA – May 3 
• CCNY vs Columbia – May 19 
• CCNY vs Columbia – May 25 

Roster:

 John S Rae (Captain, resigned), Robert Donohue (Captain) Coach: Alfred C Bolger (Manager) 

 1905 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 1, Stevens 8 

 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 0, Stevens 10 
• CCNY 0, Columbia 8 
• CCNY 0, Lehigh 11 
• CCNY 0, Swarthmore 14 

Roster:

S J Jumensky (Goal 1906), J A Panaroni (Point 1907), P T Kammerer Jr (Cover Point 1906), W G Hubert (Captain and 3rd Defense 1907), H W Wallace (Second Defense 1906), R H Alles (First Defense 1906), RJ Cronan (Centre 1906), G G Dixon (First Attack 1907), M H Ray Jr (Second Attack 1909), M Rosenblatt (Third Attack 1906), J E Hewitt (Outside Home 1906), M R Knitel (Inside Home 1906) Substitutes: Morris (1910), Carr (1910), MacLean (1909), Johnson (1908), Greenfield (1907), Maxim (1908), MacDonald (1908) Coach: Pail T Kammerer Jr (Manager) Stats: N/A 

Notes:  

• The 1906 CCNY lacrosse team is the first team in the history of college lacrosse to include a black player on the roster.  

Record: N/A Scores/Schedule:

• CCNY 1, Lehigh 5
• CCNY 1, Stevens 9
• CCNY 0, Crescent AC 5

Roster: 

Jesse Pasternak (Goal), Gabriel Di Martino (Point), Morris Baum (Cover Point), W G

Hubert (1st Defense 1907), R C Thompson (2nd Defense), Jere A Starr (3rd Defense), G Gale

Dixon (Captain and Center 1907), D M McCready (3rd Attack), J A Pierson (2nd Attack), Morris

Luxenburg (1st Attack), F R Morris (Outside Home), RL McNichol (Inside Home

Coach: Warren G Hubert (Manager), Albert B Unger (Asst Manager)

Notes:  

• Boys HS defeated Polytechnic Prep School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to claim the NYC Scholastic Championship.

 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• CCNY 7, Stevens 8 
• CCNY 4, Alumni 2 (scrimmage) 
• CCNY 0, Stevens 6 
• CCNT vs Lehigh 
• CCNY vs NYLC 
• CCNY vs Flushing LC 
• CCNY 0, Columbia 3 
• CCNY 4 vs Crescent LC 6 
• CCNY vs Flushing 
• CCNY vs Columbia 
• CCNY vs Class of 1900 
• CCNY vs NYLC 

Roster: 

Morris Baum, Hyman Heskowitz, Jesse Pasternak, Robert L McNichol Coach: Herbet Holton Stats: N/A 

Notes: 

• All information, unless otherwise noted, for 1908 is from articles appeearing in “The Campus” produced at the College of the City of New York in 1908 and 1909

 Record: N/A Scores/Schedule: 

• 1909 (2) vs 1911 (1) 
• 1912 vs 1911 – postponed 
• 1911 (1) vs 1910 (0) 
• 1909 (3) vs 1912(0) 
• 1909 forfeit win vs 1910 

Roster: 

Jesse Pasternak (Captain 1910), Jeremiah A Starr (1909), Samuel Greenfield (1908), Raymond C Thompson (1909), Gabriel Di Martino (1909), Jack Kalis (1909), Joseph L Geismar (1909), Leo Hughes (1909), Jacob Katz (1910), Robert L McNichol (1910), Jacob Goldman (1910), Hyman Heskowitz (1911), Morris Baum (1911), A Lack (1911), Joseph B Juna (1911), Philip Berman (1911), GH Belmont (1911) Coach: Jeremiah A Starr

Notes:  

• Raymond C Thompson, Morris Baum, and Gabriel Di Martino also participated on the CCNY football team in 1909.  
• Due what a campus publication called “insubordination in the ranks”, the lacrosse season was canceled in 1909.  
• Inter-class lacrosse was set up as an alternative on campus during this time.  In the early rounds, interclass games were played, and when 1910 no showed against the Seniors, the class of 1909 was crowned class lacrosse champion of CCNY. 
• All information, unless otherwise noted, for 1909 is from articles appearing in “The Campus” produced at the College of the City of New York in 1909.