“The University team is in good condition for the game, and has developed well as a result of practice since the southern trip,” wrote The Crimson before the contest, to which tickets cost fifty cents.

Though Harvard allowed its first goals of the season in the match, it nonetheless cruised to a 9-3 victory.

“The University offence [sic] played well together,” The Crimson wrote. “Nightingale and Foristall displayed clever stick work, while [first attack Putnam] Eaton’s shots at the goal were especially accurate. The defence [sic], though weakened by injuries on the southern trip, held the Stevens forward line well, [with point Fred] Churchill doing particularly good work in spoiling many attempts to score.”

Two weeks later, Harvard departed on its “western” road trip, with games scheduled in upstate New York against Hobart on May 10 and Cornell on May 12.

“As the team has been playing very well the chances for winning the game, and probably the league championship, are good,” The Crimson claimed before the contest with the Deacons (now known as the Statesmen).

The prediction would prove prescient, as Harvard—thanks to two goals each from second attack Nightingale, third attack Brundage, and third defense Percy Catton—won what its student paper called a “brilliant” match against Hobart by a score of 7-3.

“Throughout the game [Harvard] showed better speed and stick-work,” The Crimson noted, adding that “Lincoln played an excellent game in goal.”

Two days later, the Crimson travelled to Ithaca to play the Big Red with the ILL Northern Division Championship on the line. Tickets to the contest, played at Percy Field, cost 25 cents.

The day of the game, The Crimson predicted that “the University will have to work hard to win for Cornell has a strong team.” The Cornell Daily Sun was equally complementary of the Crimson, noting that “the Harvard lacrosse team promises a hard match.”

That proved to be the case for the Big Red, as the visitors were able to come out on top in what both The Sun and The Crimson deemed a “fast and clean game.” Harvard’s 5-1 victory clinched the program’s seventh ILL championship in ten years.

“Both teams showed lots of fight throughout the entire game, and the brilliant defensive work of the Crimson goalkeepers swayed the score in favor of the victors,” wrote The Sun. “Cornell’s fast forwards were unable to keep the ball within the visitors’ territory during the better part of the game, but only succeeded in getting one shot by Harvard’s goal tender, Lincoln.”

On offense, Brundage turned in a strong performance, registering a hat trick, while Catton tallied the Crimson’s other two scores.

“The victory over Cornell was especially credible and was accomplished only by a very hard fight in which Lincoln at goal figured prominently,” wrote the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine.

THAT’S A WRAP

With another Northern Division championship in tow, Harvard offered to play Johns Hopkins, the Southern Division champions, for the national title, as the two teams had done a year prior.