Lacrosse Legends

As our interview team conducted dozens of interviews across Canada over the last 4 years onename kept popping up – Jim Bishop. Bishop is one of the most well-known names in the game.He is deceased, but his influence and work lives on. We have put together a number of formerplayers and coaches who knew him to discuss the lacrosse life of one of Canada’s mostimportant contributors to the game.He was involved with lacrosse for 58 years, making his mark as coach and builder of the game in Ontario and throughout Canada.Jim began coaching minor lacrosse in Toronto in 1946 and in 1957 he founded the HuntsvilleMinor Lacrosse Association. One of his greatest accomplishments was building the OshawaJunior A Green Gaels - the legendary lacrosse organization that competed in and won 7consecutive Minto Cups.This record of 7 consecutive titles from 1963 to 1969 has not beenequalled since and likely won’t be matched.Bishop was involved in establishing the initial National Lacrosse League in 1968 and coached theDetroit Olympi