Don’t look for the University of Baltimore in the lacrosse scores. It won’t be there. The school has no lacrosse team — and no team in any intercollegiate sport.

Ah, but UB had a formidable lacrosse team from 1949 through 1983. Then, President H. Mebane Turner, himself a former college athlete, suddenly announced the school was discontinuing sports. The university is a forgiving place though. Later, Meb Turner was inducted in the school’s athletic hall of fame.

The University of Baltimore had too good a lacrosse team for it to be forgotten. At one time or another it defeated Syracuse, Harvard, Dartmouth and RPI. It beat Virginia three years in a row (1959-61). It played Cornell, Penn, Loyola, Army and Navy — and tied Navy in 1959.

Some of the men who coached UB lacrosse are well known today. National Hall of Fame Coach Dick Edell coached the team from 1972-76 and won at least 10 games every year. He also won a national championship at the school — in soccer.  He went on and coached Army and Maryland in lacrosse. When the UB athletic program was shut down in 1983, the coach was Richie Meade, later the coach at Navy and now Furman.

In the early days, UB coaches were paid little or no salary. The assistants were volunteers. Bill Pacy, who died last year in Naples, Fla., and Jim McDonald were the coaches from 1956 to 1963. They won three championships in what was called the Laurie Cox Division.

I was reminded of UB’s lacrosse glory days when Randy Walker died on April 22, 2016. Walker was a four-time All-American. He was truly a great player for the University of Baltimore. He was by no means the only one.

I saw those UB teams play numerous times. Some of the players could have played anywhere. To name a few: Paul Loewer, Timmy Albrecht, Jack Downey, Junior Kelz, Augie Uleckas and Bob Lacy. UB’s Al Cosgrove outscored the great Jim Brown in the 1957 USILA North-South game (when the game was a much bigger deal than it is now). Cosgrove had seven goals that night at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Field. Brown, playing only the first half, had five.

Randy Walker, tall and lanky, was one of the better midfielders I’ve seen over the years. He could carry the ball with the best of ’em. I’m not saying he was as good as Syracuse’s Gait twins, Gary and Paul. Nor do I rank him with Maryland’s Frank Urso. Those three and Jim Brown were in a class by themselves.

Walker was in the first class to be inducted when UB started its athletic hall of fame in 2004. He was also in the first hall of fame class at Baltimore’s St  Paul’s School in 2008. Later, even playing on star-studded Mt. Washington Club teams, he stood out.

UB is located on North Charles Street in mid-town Baltimore. Two miles north on the same street is Johns Hopkins. Another mile north is Loyola. With so many colleges around the country taking up lacrosse these days, it doesn’t seem right that, in the middle of Baltimore, there is no team at all at a place that once had excellent teams and All-American players. The school, with an undergraduate enrollment of 3,334, has no plan to bring back lacrosse. What a shame.