Hopkins' mastery of Navy tough to explain

Mids try luck again today vs. Blue Jays

By BILL WAGNER, Staff Writer

Published 04/18/09

To categorize Johns Hopkins' 35-game winning streak against Navy in men's lacrosse as "remarkable" would be an understatement.

This is not the Notre Dame-Navy football series, in which one program is typically far superior to the other talent-wise. The Midshipmen were a heavy underdog throughout their monumental 44-game losing streak to the Fighting Irish, which ended in 2007.

That has not been the case in lacrosse, a sport in which Johns Hopkins and Navy are both perennial powers and regular NCAA Tournament participants. Some would argue the Midshipmen have actually fielded a better team than the Blue Jays...

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Reason Behind BlueJays Mastery of t - 2009-04-18 17:35:49

In the late 70s we were very fortunate at Navy to have a premier attackman named Brendan Schneck. Brendan was my classmate (80) and a teammate from our undefeated NAPS lax team (I myself did not make it past plebe ball).
Brendan was an All American our plebe year but he was constantly beset upon by his company officer, a particularly overzealous Marine captain.
Brendan had enough in the summer of 1978 and transferred to JHU; his brother, a renowned longstick himself, joined him from their high school, Syosset, and the rest is history.
The Jays went on to win the National Championship the next two years and an otherwise unremarkable 3 year streak was cursed to extend for unknown decades.

Kris Elliott '80
LtCol USMC (Ret)

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