“Bringing Back” Lacrosse to Emory & Henry
When Emory & Henry announced in 2023 that the college was adding lacrosse to their athletics lineup, there were a handful of alumni who corrected the word “adding” to “bringing back.”
There were a handful of years back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when E&H had a men’s lacrosse club team. John Hutter (E&H ’79) remembers those early days as being a combination of miscommunication and great luck.
He had been looking to transfer to a new school and he dropped by Emory & Henry. He asked someone in the athletics office if E&H had lacrosse and that person told him “Yes.” When he actually transferred and showed up for school it was quite clear that was not the case. “Eleanor Hutton looked at me funny and said, ‘Is that the game you play with a ball and a butterfly net?’”
Clearly there had been some miscommunication.
But the great luck followed soon after.
John had been practicing his stick work at Kelly Library when Roy Strohl, Emory & Henry’s head librarian at the time, stuck his head out the window and asked him to “stop throwing a lacrosse ball against the wall.” John was thrilled that anyone knew what a lacrosse ball even was, and headed inside to meet the guy with a bowtie and lacrosse sticks on the wall.
The rest was legend.
Roy agreed to be a coach. John found out that there were a handful of guys on campus who had played lacrosse before – and still others who were interested in learning. They played teams like Roanoke, William & Mary, and Washington and Lee, and they enjoyed a nice number of fans who came out to watch.
Ever since the magic fizzled and the team disappeared, those guys who loved playing lacrosse at Emory & Henry have fervently hoped it might someday return – so the news of E&H lacrosse has been welcomed with excitement by these alumni.
In the fall of 2023, on Homecoming weekend, these lacrosse alumni will reunite to remember the old days and honor their former coach. Roy Strohl will be on campus to be part of the festivities and also to launch a trophy that will bear his name. Bill Naehle (E&H ’82) has found a statue depicting Native Americans playing lacrosse and it will be used to represent the Roy Strohl Award – or The Roy.
Find more details about the reunion on the E&H Alumni webpage, and enjoy a great conversation with John Hutter, Roy Strohl, and Jeff Stone (E&H ’79), a football player who found the joys of lacrosse, on the Duck Pond Wall Podcast.
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- <div class="lw_news_image"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/news/866-dr-bob-buchanan-receives-award"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,11,280,291/6479_Dr._Bob_Buchanan.rev.1560787959.webp 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,11,280,291/6479_Dr._Bob_Buchanan.rev.1560787959.jpg 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,11,280,291/6479_Dr._Bob_Buchanan.rev.1560787959.jpg" alt="Dr. Bob Buchanan, E&H Class of 1958, is retired from University of California, Berkeley." width="345" height="225" data-max-w="280" data-max-h="280" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span></div><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_news_headline"><a href="/live/news/866-dr-bob-buchanan-receives-award">Dr. Bob Buchanan Receives Award</a></h4><div class="lw_news_summary"> Dr. Buchanan (E&H ’58) was among a small group of outstanding scientists honored by the American Society of Plant Biologists <a href="/live/news/866-dr-bob-buchanan-receives-award" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div></div>
- <div class="lw_news_image"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/news/1295-action-is-better"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.webp 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.webp 3x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.jpg 3x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.jpg" alt="Ron Miller ('20) and Liam Besneatte-Cullinane ('21) at the food pantry in Chilhowie" width="345" height="225" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/396,0,2796,2400/8277_IMG_9254.rev.1591281504.jpg 3x" data-max-w="2400" data-max-h="2400" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span></div><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_news_headline"><a href="/live/news/1295-action-is-better">“Action is better…”</a></h4><div class="lw_news_summary"> These E&H students are flexing their service muscles this summer. <a href="/live/news/1295-action-is-better" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div></div>
- <div class="lw_news_image"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/news/1856-joel-vaughan-publishes-book-about-his-hometown-of"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.webp 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.webp 3x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.jpg 3x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.jpg" alt=" Joel Vaughan Emory & Henry Class of 1983 " width="345" height="225" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1296,1547/9875_image.rev.1622644196.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1296" data-max-h="1547" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span></div><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_news_headline"><a href="/live/news/1856-joel-vaughan-publishes-book-about-his-hometown-of">Joel Vaughan Publishes Book About His Hometown of Fries, Virginia, on the Banks of the New River</a></h4><div class="lw_news_summary"> Joel Vaughan has just published a book about a little town in Virginia that is the source of one of Southwest Virginia’s most popular jokes. Fries, Virginia, is pronounced “freeze” – but the joke is, “It’s <em>freeze</em> in the winter and <em>fries</em> in the summer.” <a href="/live/news/1856-joel-vaughan-publishes-book-about-his-hometown-of" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div></div>
- <div class="lw_news_image"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/news/2782-dr-rosemary-gray-honored-with-2023-carl-and-ruth"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,18,200,218/13443_Rosemary_Gray.rev.1677542353.webp 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,18,200,218/13443_Rosemary_Gray.rev.1677542353.jpg 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,18,200,218/13443_Rosemary_Gray.rev.1677542353.jpg" alt="Smiling woman" width="345" height="225" data-max-w="200" data-max-h="200" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span></div><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_news_headline"><a href="/live/news/2782-dr-rosemary-gray-honored-with-2023-carl-and-ruth">Dr. Rosemary Gray Honored with 2023 Carl and Ruth Looney Humanitarian Award</a></h4><div class="lw_news_summary"><p>This award is given to an individual who has demonstrated special service in a volunteer or professional manner, has made unusual personal sacrifice, or has shown a long and dedicated commitment to service that benefits humanity. <em>This award is named for Rev. Carl and Ruth Looney and their family who excelled at using humble means to achieve amazing service.</em></p><a href="/live/news/2782-dr-rosemary-gray-honored-with-2023-carl-and-ruth" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div></div>