Lacrosse Face-Off

(Or: hey, can we see what you guys have in there?)
(Most photos of lacrosse face-offs are generally just dominated by, well, a player's backside; but hopefully this one is an improved variation on that theme.)

In a lacrosse game, play starts with a face-off (at the beginning of each period, and after every goal) and certain rules must be followed to ensure fairness by each player. It seems like a lot of officials/referees in a small area, but in a few seconds one official will back off about 15 meters and the other will stay closer to observe the face-off technique. (Hood College, in white, versus Shenandoah College.)

Lacrosse was developed hundreds of years ago by North American First Peoples as an alternative to war, generally in the area of what now is western New York, and they called it baggataway or tewaarathon. It was named "lacrosse" by French Catholic missionaries who thought the deer-hide and wooden implements carried by competing warriors looked like "the cross" carried by penitents on their way to Mass.