OSHAWA, Ont. (CP)—President Terry Kelly of the National Lacrosse Association said Thursday night that the league is facing problems and could fold.
“I don’t know at the moment just what’s going to happen,” said Kelly in an interview. “We have problems with the Canadian Lacrosse Association which we’ll have to work out if the league is to continue.”
Kelly had hoped to put franchises in the Ontario centres of Oshawa, St. Catharines and Brantford this season to replace the Montreal and Detroit entries which folded.
“We just can’t move into these cities,” he said, however. “People have been operating franchises there for years and we’ll have to work something out with the OLA and CLA if we’re to go on.”
Kelly said he should know the fate of the league by next week.
(Nanaimo Daily Free Press, March 14, 1969)