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ACC Champion Lacrosse Team
Starts With New Head Coach

Last season Coach Buddy
Beardmore's lacrosse team beat
Maryland 9-7 to take the ACC
crown. Although the season included
two tough losses to Navy
and Johns Hopkins, Coach
Beardmore went on to be picked to
coach the South in the annual
North-South all-star game in Baltimore.
The South was victorious,
12-9.

Since, Coach Beardmore has
resigned as head lacrosse coach at
the University to take that same
position at his alma mater, Maryland,
where he was an all-American.

On August 15 Athletic Director
Steve Sebo announced that Glenn
Thiel had been appointed the new
lacrosse coach at the University.
The 25-year-old Thiel had been
serving as head lacrosse coach at the
Community College of Baltimore
where his teams recorded a 12-6
mark over two years.

His first coaching assignment
was as a graduate assistant at the
University of Massachusetts in 1967
while he was working for his
Masters in Education. He also has
experience in coaching wrestling
and will help head wrestling coach
George Edwards here.

Coach Thiel is a graduate of
Penn State ('66) where he was a
four-year performer on the lacrosse
team, being named co-captain his
senior year. Also in that year he
was honored by being picked to
receive the Pittinger Award, an
annual recognition of Penn State's
outstanding lacrosse player, and
also participated in the North-South
all-star game.

Virginia's stickmen will face
some tough losses due to graduation
when the season gets under
way next spring. Fourth-year goalie
Jim Eustace was named to the first
team all-American list by a vote of
the major college lacrosse coaches
throughout the country.

Eustace had a great year for the
Cavaliers in the nets, coming up
with 104 saves and making possible
Virginia's fine overall record of 7-3.
He started at goalie for the South in
the North-South game and was
instrumental in the South's victory.

Second team honors went to
fourth-year defenseman Pete Coy
and third year midfielder and
co-captain Jim Potter. The previous
year Coy had made the first team,
but had had his best season in
1969. Potter led the Cavaliers in
capturing ground balls, collecting
94. He also scored 15 goals and
tallied 10 assists.

Third-year attackman Charlie
Rullman was a third team all-American
choice. Rullman topped
Virginia in goals scored in 1969 with
19 and had nine assists.

Graduation also claimed defensemen
Al Kavasch and Chuck
Hammer. The midfield loses Chuck
Edwards, Tad Joerdans, and Pete
Kirk. But Potter, Sandy Archibald,
Pete Eldredge, and Bob Proutt are
expected to plug the holes.

In contrast, the attack loses no
one. Rullman will be joined by two
experienced second-year men Jay
Connor and Doug Tarring who saw
a lot of action last season as

first-year men on the Varsity.

Third-year man Al Hirsch is a
likely candidate to win the job as
starting goalie.

It is too early to know if the
Cavaliers will have that all crucial
depth that they had last year to
make another outstanding season,
but fall conditioning and informal
practice will be beginning soon to
tell the tale.