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This site is dedicated to all of those former and current lacrosse players - young and old - who have a thirst for learning all that they can about the past 150 years of lacrosse history. The pages that will follow will include a brief history of the game's Native American origin and a recap of its evolution during the 1900's. You will find some neat content on both men's as well as women's lacrosse.

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Email us with questions that you might have about a lacrosse stick and we will post it so that you might get a response from our followers.

Previous Old School Equipment:

Nov 29, 2009.....STX Ulman Model circa 1984

Dec 06, 2009.....Brine PL77 circa 1974

Dec 13, 2009.....STX Laser Hi-Wall circa 1983

Dec 20, 2009.....STX Turbo circa 1990

Dec 27, 2009.....Lally Boy's Model circa 1915

Jan 04, 2010......Brine Edge circa 1995

Jan 11, 2010......Brine Shotgun circa 1985

Feb 01, 2010.....STX X2 circa 1997

Feb 08, 2010.....STX Proton circa 1997

Mar 17, 2010.....Warrior Patriot circa 1998

Apr 26, 2010.....STX Viper circa 1992

Sept 25, 2010.....Brine M1 Magic circa 1990

Dec 23, 2020.... Original STX Goalie Stick

Mar 10, 2011.... Brine Flip Flop Model Gloves

July 2, 2011... STX Golden Hi-Wall circa 1989

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Back in the Summer of 2011, I met the STICK DOCTOR at a youth lacrosse tournament in New Jersey. They had set their tent up across from the one that I set up for our U13 Team. I mentioned that I had a number of unstrung vintage heads from the early 1970's and asked if they could string the heads using the same components that would have been used when they were originally strung back in 1974. John and Betty Anne showed me a few of the heads that they had recently re-strung. Just seeing the handful of awesome looking heads that they had with them was enough to give me comfort that I had indeed found the right team to recondition my vintage heads. If you have a new head that needs a custom job or a vintage head that requires reconditioning - give the Stick Doctor a call or visit their website @ www.stickdoctor.net.

See the new Video on our STX in the 1970's page courtesy of Coach Tom Mills of California. Not only was he nice enough to shoot the video and let us link to it - but he also set it to some cool period music.

Comming Soon!!! Pictures, Story, and Video of Tom Mills and his story of making one piece wooden lacrosse sticks. Come back soon.

COMMING SOON: New Page on Patterson Lacrosse

Including a Great Opportunity to Buy Lacrosse sticks directly from the company - both vintage as well as new one piece hand crafted wooden sticks.

A Classic Old School Repair

I recently was afforded the opportunity to purchase a beautiful vintage STX Model 84 Lacrosse stick. Up until recently, I had never come across any that were dark blue in color. The vast majority of the time they seem to be butterscotch. While most people would have simply by-passed it due to the somewhat crude repair that was made to the head; a repair that was not subtle at all and absolutely more of the in your face variety, I viewed this as an opportunity that I could not pass up. To me, the stick represented traditional OLD SCHOOL LACROSSE equipment.

While I have come across heads that were previously broken - say a crack or a split - they usually have been repaired with very ultra-thin metal wire. This one was "sewed" back together with a metal wire that is more similar to what you find with a metal clothes hanger than thread. However, the repair was performed so well that the two pieces fit back together perfectly. The threading job was so well thought out - that the person doing the repair had initially removed the ball stop so that the metal wire would be concealed below the stop and would not impact the throw or the catch. Being OLD SCHOOL, I absolutely had to have the stick.

I would imagine that if the same type of damage were to occur in a lacrosse head in today's game - it would simply find its way to the garbage can.