by Cesar Alsop, The News Journal; March 21st, 1974

Barry Ashbee (left), with John Ferguson of Montreal (center) and Ed Tepper (right)
The American Indians originally brought us lacrosse. Centuries later, after football, baseball and basketball has had its shares of ups and downs, lacrosse still survives — and now at last as a prospective professional sport.
The latest version will be brought to this area by the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League. The whole thing is still in its infant stages, but it appears as if growth will occur rapidly.
The Spectrum will be the Wings’ home, but players? A draft by the six team league — the other teams are Baltimore-Washington, Toronto, Montreal, Rochester and Syracuse — will be held Monday in Montreal. Until today, the team didn’t even have a coach. Bobby Allan was finally named to the post.
Even so, according to the team’s co-owner and chairman of the board Ed Tepper, close to 1,000 season tickets have been sold. And that’s without any real promotion, or without one or two parties buying them all.
