This clarification of Rule 4-3-4 was one of nine changes made by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Boys Lacrosse Rules Committee at its July 14-15 meeting in Indianapolis.

These changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.

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It was a sunny and very cool Saturday morning in central New Jersey in late March, 1995. My twelve-year-old son Jordan and I were heading to Chamberlain Park for his first ever lacrosse practice.  While enroute Jordan asked me again, for what seemed like the 100th time, "Dad, why will I like playing Lacrosse?" 

 

Immediately my thoughts flashed back thirty years to Massapequa, a small town on the south shore of Long Island, and to the first time I held that old wood and gut stick in my hand — and it seemed that time had stood still.   

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Soon, snow will be gently falling outside, and the campus of this private high school nestled in the confines of a sleepy hamlet in central Jersey will begin to look like a Norman Rockwell painting. It's well after dusk on a Sunday night, and the athletic building, now barely visible, will be more obscured by the mist and ice.

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