Lacrosse Legends

Wayne and Ed Goss

Wayne Goss:

Wayne excelled at all aspects of lacrosse from goal scoring and play making to
penalty killing and face-offs.

Between 1968 and 1981, Goss scored 812 goals, added
1,040 assists, and amassed 1,852 points in 465 games. He held 41 WLA scoring and faceoff records and shared 4 others. Goss was named Rookie of the Year in 1968, league MVP 4 times (1969-71, 1975) and playoff MVP 3 times (1968-69, 1976).

He was named to11 all-star teams and won 5 Mann Cup championships (1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1981)with the Salmonbellies. He set a WLA and Canadian record in the 1981 Mann Cup series with an assist during the final seconds to amass a 98-point total and was named the series’ MVP.

He played in the 1968 and 1969 National Lacrosse League championships, winning in 1968 over the Detroit Olympics.

Goss also played for Canada in the 1974 world field lacrosse championships in Australia.

He retired in 1981 after 14 seasons with the Salmonbellies.

In 1983, his sweater was retired on “Wayne Goss Night” at Queen’s Park Arena. Goss was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1986 and the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.

Ed Goss:

Wayne Goss’s older brother; Ed played hockey, soccer and basketball, but excelled at
lacrosse.

He played minor in New Westminster where his teams were perennial champs.

Goss’ Jr. A ‘bellies team were Minto finalists 3 consecutive years (1966-68).

In '64 reg. season Jr. games, Ed scored 141 goals & 133 assists for 274 points. He was Jr. A Rookie of the Year and 1st Team All- Star in 1966, won the Bill Dickinson Trophy as league top scorer in ‘67 and held the record for most goals in a game (11).

He played 3 pro seasons with New Westminster in ‘68-’69 and Maryland in ‘75, winning 2 World
Pro Championships with the ‘bellies.

Goss played Sr. A for the ‘bellies over 6 seasons from‘69-’77.

In 135 Sr. A and pro reg. season games, he netted 163 goals & 222 assists for 385 points, and in 53 playoff games, added 53 goals and 52 assists. His ‘bellies teams went to 3 straight Mann Cups, winning two in ‘70 & ’72.

Al Lewthwaite was a giant on the lacrosse floor in stature, strength and talent.

But like Achilles of mythical antiquity, Big Al Lewthwaite had his weakness: a battered knee that hobbled his career.

Born in New Westminster on October 15, 1950, Lewthwaite developed his box lacrosse skills in the Royal City’s Sapperton district, but by age 15 he was considered too big to continue playing at the Juvenile level.

Instead, he lined up with the New Westminster Junior B team that captured the 1966 Canadian championship in Port Arthur.

The following year, Lewthwaite joined the Junior A Salmonbellies, which made unsuccessful challenges for the 1967 and 1968 Minto Cups.

Meanwhile, he found the Senior ‘bellies coveting his talents.

In his first Senior contest in 1967 (he was not yet 17 years old) he scored two goals.

After the 1968 Minto Cup series, he played a pivotal role in the ‘bellies’ National Lacrosse Association professional championship victory over Detroit.

By 1969, Lewthwaite was 6’3”, 230-lbs, fleet of foot, a deadly shooter, a natural play maker and a rib-crunching checker.

At the age of 18, he became a permanent member of the Senior Salmonbellies, registering 87 points in his first 27 games.

Between 1970 and 1974, Lewthwaite and his teammates captured 3 Mann Cups in 4 trips to the Canadian championships.

Nicknamed “Lurch” by his teammates after the character on TV’s Addams Family, Lewthwaite preferred floor time to the penalty box, but due to his imposing size, he often found himself in the role of team policeman.

Some of his confrontations with Vancouver’s Ward Sanderson and Coquitlam’s Kevin Parsons are fondly remembered by advocates of the lacrosse school of hard knocks.

In 1975, the upstart pro National Lacrosse League team in Boston drafted Lewthwaite in the first round, but traded him to the long Island Tomahawks where he accumulated 140 points in 47 games; however, he also seriously injured his knee.

Famed New York sports medicine specialist Dr. Morris Cowen rebuilt his left
knee, but the criss-crossing scars were mute evidence of the obvious: at the age of 25,
Lewthwaite’s playing career was virtually at an end.

He limped through just 27 more games over the next three years before retiring.

In 269 games with the Salmonbellies and Long Island, he scored 308 goals and 443 assists for 751 points.

After one season as co-coach of a Senior B team, he took over the coaching reins for the Salmonbellies in 1978.

Over the next 21 years, Lewthwaite held similar positions with Coquitlam, Richmond, Burnaby and Maple Ridge.

Paul Parnell was born March 28, 1938, in Peterborough, Ontario.

He began playing lacrosse in Peterborough and played 2 seasons of Senior for
Peterborough in 1958 & 59.

In 1960 he joined the Victoria Shamrocks for 1 season.

In 1961 he joined the Salmonbellies and won 5 Mann Cups. He was selected to the
ICLL/WLA all-star team in 14 of his 15 years with New Westminster, and retired in
1975 holding 23 WLA records and 3 Mann Cup records.

No one in Canadian senior box lacrosse history has played more games than Paul
Parnell: 587 in the West and another 84 in his hometown of Peterborough.

Only John Davis, another Peterborough product, has accumulated more points, 2,053, to Parnell’s
1,918.

Barb Cormier
INDUCTED OLHoF: 2007
TEAM: Etobicoke
POSITION: Builder

It was for the love of the game and the benefit of all children of Etobicoke that she donated 25 plus years to Mimico Minor Lacrosse.
– Acted as main Administrator and Fundraiser along with Ruby Lang (previously inducted).
– Created new House League program and served on many boards and committees.
– Received OLA Presidents Award.

Ruby Lang
INDUCTED OLHoF: 2002
TEAM: Mimico
POSITION: Builder

– Served for over 30 years as guardian of the 110 year old Mimico Lacrosse Club.
– Past Winner of the Provincial Merv McKenzie Award (Top Promoter of Lacrosse in ON).
– Past Winner of the “Tip” Teather Memorial Award (Outstanding Service to the Sport).
– Life member of the Ontario Lacrosse Association.
– Recognized both locally and provincially for her positive, community based approach to ensure opportunity of the sport for all children.

Alfred Jacques - "The Stick Maker" - Ontario Hall of Fame Inductee

Alf grew up in the world of lacrosse and learned the art of making lacrosse sticks from his father and fellow Inductee Louis Jacques.
– Played Junior, Senior and Professional lacrosse in the 60’s and 7O’s.
– Coached and managed the Onondaga Red Hawks from 2002 to 2010.
– In 2005, 2006 & 2010 coached the Red Hawks to the league championships and represented the league at the Presidents Cup.
– Winner as Coach and Manager of the 2010 Presidents Cup.
– Alf is an educator about the time-honored Native Traditional art form of Lacrosse Stick Making, which connects the player to the environment.
– He continues his father ‘s legacy by creating one of a kind wooden sticks as well as recreations of the wooden sticks his ancestors used in the 15th century.

Jack Fulton Sr. (New Westminster, B.C.)

Jack got involved in lacrosse in 1955.

For 11 years, he served as team manager, then as general manager, for the New Westminster Salmonbellies.

He was with the Canadian Lacrosse Association for 8 years and was president for 2 years. Fulton and Harry McKnight founded the CLHOF in 1963.

He was a member of the CLHOF’s board of governors and served as chair for 7 years until his retirement in 1981.

He coached minor lacrosse and was the general manager of the Canadian Field Lacrosse Team that traveled to Australia in 1974.

In 1978 Fulton was presented with the Lester Pearson Plaque, presented by the CLA for outstanding contribution to lacrosse at a national level.

George “Jeep” Woolley – Manitoba

Started playing lacrosse with the Deer Lodge Hornets under the direction of Tom O’Brien. After capturing numerous minor league titles, Jeep went on to play Junior for the Winnipeg Wellingtons.

Based on his play with the Wellingtons, Jeep was selected to play for Manitoba All stars against the BC All Stars for the Western Canadian championship. After winning the opener by a 12 to 8 score, the Manitobans dropped a close 8 to 9 decision in game two. Manitoba rallied to defeat B.C. 10 to 9 in the hard-fought third and deciding game.

The team made history, carrying Manitoba’s colours into the Dominion lacrosse final for the first time where the All-Stars met the Eastern representative, the Mimico Mountaineers, for the Minto Cup.

Jeep went on to play Senior in the “hay days” of senior lacrosse in Winnipeg. He was a steady team player who was able to chip a goal or two when needed. Woolley tangled with some of the best lacrosse players Winnipeg produced in the 1940’s and 1950’s.

Bobby Allan (Peterborough, Ontario)

In his heyday, Bobby Allan was in a class by himself, the finest lacrosse player in Canada. His consummate skill, agility and adroitness in faking a move made him one-of-a-kind. His backhand shot was a prototype move.

Allan won three scoring titles, three league MVP awards, and the Mike Kelly Award in 1964 as the most valuable player in the Mann Cup. His record of 89 goals in 29 games in 1956, in British Columbia, still stands. He played on four Mann Cup championship teams and another four Mann Cup finalists..

Later Bob moved into coaching, first with box lacrosse teams in Peterborough and Philadelphia, PA, and then as head coach of the Canadian National Field Lacrosse Team. His Peterborough teams won a Canadian Semi-Pro Title in 1969, a Mann Cup in 1973, and were Mann Cup finalists in 1970. His Canadian National Field team won the world championship in 1978 in Manchester, England. Bob was elected to the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame.

Born in 1936, Harry started playing lacrosse at Kelvin Community Club at age twelve after buying an old beat up wooden lacrosse stick from the neighbour across the lane.

He fell in love with the game and spent countless hours practicing to throw and catch at the club or at a Safeway parking lot down the street from where he lived.

He was picked up by a senior league team in 1955, and, in 1955, 56, and 57, played in the Minto Cup play downs for Manitoba.

The 1955 team advanced to play in the Championship series against Long Branch.

After returning from University, he helped reform the senior league and organize minor lacrosse in Manitoba, (Winnipeg primarily).

He continued to play lacrosse as well and was selected to several local all star teams in the late 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, before his playing days ended in 1977.

He is one of the founders of, and is still involved with, the Manitoba Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

He is inducted in that Hall as well as the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

George “Potsy” Burrows

– Involved in lacrosse since 1926 at the age of 8 and is still involved today 84 years later.
– His involvement in the game has ranged from being a goaltender for Brampton in Minor Field to Senior Box, a referee for over 20 years and a longtime Director of the Brampton Excelsior Lacrosse Club.
– Instrumental in starting the Lakeshore Lacrosse League with Jim Clevely and Billy Evans, where he transported players then refereed the games for free.
– Honourary member of Brampton Old Timers Association.
– Inducted to the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame as a Veteran in 2010.