Is a contribution to our new series that we are calling eating to win. During my two seasons playing lacrosse at Herkimer County Community College in the early 1980s we traveled to Long Island to play Nassau County Community College, West Point, and Hobart College in Geneva, New York. After away games, we packed back into two 16 passenger vans without showering or changing. Funky and hungry we sped off for something to eat. In those days, the college allowed each player a $5 per diem for each meal which would have been fine; but back then Coach Paul Wehrum did not think highly of fast food restaurants. As a result he came up with created ways to feed his teams. For example, he would organize with parents to host at family homes. They would both feed us and bed us in sleeping bags on the floor. Herk’s lacrosse budget made the cost of hotel too expensive for us.
