General Information
In November 2006, the Baltimore Bayhawks relocated to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Bayhawks. They played 5 of their 6 games at Multi-Sport Field and 1 at George Mason Stadium.
New venues in 2007
- The Boston Cannons moved their home games to Harvard Stadium.
- The Chicago Machine moved their home games to Toyota Park.
- The Philadelphia Barrage moved their home games to United Sports Training Center
New rules in 2007:
- Moved the two-point arc back to 16 yards (15 m) away from the goal. It had previously been 15 yards (14 m) away.
- Created the same stick dimension requirements as NCAA.
- Enforce “pull-strings” as making a stick illegally altered and thus cannot re-enter the game.
Chicago won for the first time in franchise history on June 2 defeating Denver. The Machine had lost a league record 13 consecutive games (including all 12 games in 2006).
The 2007 season was a record breaking season:
- On June 16, the Rochester Rattlers won a 27–26 (in overtime) game over the Denver Outlaws in the highest scoring game in MLL history at INVESCO Field at Mile High.
- A MLL record crowd of 19,793 watched the July 4 game between Chicago and Denver at INVESCO Field at Mile High. The previous mark was 15,981, set by a Los Angeles at Denver game in 2006.
- John Grant, Jr. broke the league's single-season points record with 71 points, while Spencer Ford set the single-season assists record 47.
Read more about this topic: 2007 MLL Season
Famous quotes containing the words general and/or information:
“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
—Olympia Brown (1835–1900)
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)