Evanston is THE ORIGINAL Illinois High School lacrosse team. Legendary football Coach Murney Lazier put the first lacrosse sticks in players' hands as early as the late 1950's. Perhaps inspired by stories of Jim Brown, Coach Lazier quickly learned to love the game and went about learning how to coach lacrosse for it's own sake - not merely as Spring Football Practice.
The first HS lacrosse game in Illinois was played in Spring 1968, between New Trier East and Evanston. By accounts of participants on both sides, Evanston won that game.