The 1974 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the 4th annual Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

The annual NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top men's field lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III....

 tournament. Eight NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse

College lacrosse

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 teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament. The championship game was hosted by Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

, and was played in front of 7,728 fans. The game saw the Johns Hopkins University, 12 and 2 for the season and led by legendary coach Bob Scott

Robert H. Scott

Bob Scott was a Hall of Fame lacrosse coach for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse team, serving from 1955 until 1974. He compiled a career record of 158 wins and 55 losses to go along with seven National Championships. He won the F...

 and Hall of Fame attackeman Jack Thomas

Jack Thomas

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, defeat University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

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 led by Frank Urso

Frank Urso

Frank Urso is a former American lacrosse player and current high school lacrosse coach, best known for his collegiate career at the University of Maryland from 1973 to 1976...

 which had been number one in the nation, by the score of 17–12.

This tournament is also notable for the Johns Hopkins versus Washington and Lee semifinal game won by Hopkins in a tight 11 to 10 matchup. Trailing 10 to 7 in the fourth quarter, Hopkins scored four straight goals, including the game winner with two minutes left, to overcome previously unbeaten Washington and Lee. Washington and Lee, which finished the season 15 and 1, had defeated Navy twice, Princeton, Duke, North Carolina, and Virginia before losing to Hopkins. Jack Emmer

Jack Emmer

John S. Emmer is a former American lacrosse coach. He retired in 2005 as the winningest lacrosse coach in NCAA history by number of wins with 326. This mark was surpassed in 2008 by Jim Berkman of Division III Salisbury University...

, who had previously led Cortland State to tournament appearances, coached the Generals to six straight NCAA tournaments from 1973 to 1978.

Tournament results

• * = Overtime