1965
Varsity Lacrosse Team
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ven Coach Robert Hulburd had minimal expectations for the 1965 lacrosse team: nine starters out of 11 from the previous year had graduated. Hulburd told The Phillipian that the team’s depth appeared questionable, the schedule was “very rough,” and the athletes “would be hard-pressed to match the record of last year’s team.” The opposition included three college freshman squads, a college varsity team, and a postgraduate club. Hulburd and Assistant Coach Meredith Price selected 29 players for varsity—18 seniors, 10 uppers, and one lower. A mix of the previous year’s benchwarmers and JV call-ups, the team, captained by Daniel Warren ’65, epitomized a non sibi approach to its challenges. The 1965 lacrosse season began April 14 at home, days after The Phillipian’s less-than-enthusiastic forecast, which was headlined “Hulburd’s Shallow Lax Squad.” Seven weeks
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later, Andover lacrosse beat Exeter 15–3, the largest margin of victory for Andover in the competition’s history, capping a first-ever undefeated, untied lacrosse season (11–0) in school history. Within days, Andover was declared New England Interscholastic Champion. “It was beyond my wildest expectations,” Hulburd said. Four senior starters earned New England All-Prep recognition. Nine seniors went on to play NCAA Division One lacrosse. One player became UNC’s first-ever All-American, another captain of Princeton’s varsity, and still another—who never started a game for Andover—was chosen by Yale to represent the university at the season-ending North-South All-Star Game and was named to both the All-Ivy and All-America teams. Two underclassmen would also become college All-Americans. In 2013, Hulburd was posthumously inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor.
Front row, from left: Robert Arras ’65, James Munroe ’66, Stephen Allen ’65, Stephen Marshall ’65, Ted McLean ’65, Daniel Warren ’65, Randy Evans ’65, Richard Barnum ’65, James Kilbreth ’65, Geoffrey Perry ’65, and Terry Kahn ’65. Middle row: Coach Robert Hulburd (d), David Ludden ’66, Walton Walker ’67, Jonathan Mills ’65, William Eakland ’66, William Clift ’66, George Nevius ’66, Peter Franchot ’66, Jeffrey Piehler ’65 (d), Gordon Freeman ’66, James Wyper ’66, and Assistant Coach Meredith Price (d). Back row: J. Thomas Graham ’65 (team manager) (d), Philip Morgan ’66, Scott Badman ’66, W. Andrew Scott ’66, Lee Eddy ’66, John Browning ’65, Derek Huntington ’65 (d), Stu McLean ’65, Michael Pokress ’65 (d), and John Hemingway ’65 (team manager). (d) = deceased per PA records 15