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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Basketball Media Guides University Publications 1964 La Salle Basketball Handbook 1964-65 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/basketball_media_guides Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Basketball Handbook 1964-65" (1964). La Salle Basketball Media Guides. 8. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/basketball_media_guides/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Basketball Media Guides by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 La Salle BASKETBALL HANDBOOK 1964-65 T/ V. ^^ <AN TT^Jf ^ i 1 ^l V ' -^ W&H J 2 1 i 1 A^^ -^ 1^^^^ ^^^^L ^^^^^^^B THE LA SALLE STORY La Salle College celebrated it£ Centennial Year in 1963 and now is well into its second century of service to higher education and the community of Philadelphia. The College was founded March 20, 1863 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and derives its name from the founder of the Christian Brothers, St. John Baptist de La Salle. By 1929, having outgrown three previous locations in Philadelphia, the campus was moved to its present 30 acre site at 20th st. and Olney ave., in the East Germantown section of the city. The Evening Division was inaugurated in 1946 in response to the needs of industry throughout the metropolitan area. Since 1945, La Salle has experienced the most dramatic period of expansion in its history. Present enrollment in both Day and Evening Divisions is over 5,800 students as com- pared to the 1940 enrollment of about 400. In the last 16 years, twelve new buildings have been added to the campus. Both the Day and Evening Divisions offer degree programs in Arts and Sciences and Business Administration. Seven modern residence halls accommodate over 600 out of town students. A $2 million, three story College Union Building, completed in 1959, includes a Little Theatre as well as dining halls, assembly rooms, ballroom and other student facilities. The $2.5 million Science Center, which houses modern lecture rooms and laboratory facilities for study and research in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics and Psychology opened in 1960. Now on the drawing boards are new dormitories, an athletic activities building, class- room building and chapel. Additional educational areas are located on a 52 acre campus in Elkins Park and on an 80 acre area in Springfield Township. The Army Artillery ROTC program was initiated in 1950 and now numbers more than 1500 cadets. Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C. President, La Salle College Below: La Salle College Science Building m LA SALLE COLLEGE 1964-65 BASKETBALL HANDBOOK Table of Contents Section I — The 1964-65 Season The La Salle Story Inside Front Cover James J. Henry, Athletic Director 2 Robert W. Walters, Head Coach 2 Joseph W. Heyer, Freshman Coach 3 La Salle College Athletic Committee 3 Varsity Roster 4 Season at a Glance 5 Players' Pronunciation Guide 5 Coach's Prospects for the Season 6 Profiles of the Explorer Players 7 Opponent X-Rays 18 Freshman Roster and Schedule 32 1964-65 Varsity Schedule Back Cover Section II — The Records Last Year's Game-by-Game Scoring Chart 12 Final 1963-64 Varsity Statistics, Results 13 1963-64 Middle Atlantic & Big Five Standings 13 Individual and Team Records 14 Year-by-Year La Salle Statistics 16-17 All-Time Leading Scorers and Coaching Records 16-17 La Salle's 1963-64 All-Opponent Team 27 Series Records vs. All College Opponents 29 Holiday and Post-Season Tournament Records 30 All-Time Won-Lost Record by Individual Conference 30 (Cover Photo: Coach Bob Walters is carried off court after winning last year's ECAC Quaker City Holiday Tourney, at Palestra.) Cover Photo by Charles F. Sibre; other photography by Mike Maicher This brochure is dedicated to the members of the Press, Radio and Television corps by La Salle College's News Bureau with the cooperation of the College's Department of Athletics. For further information, please call, write or wire: ROBERT S. LYONS, JR. Sports Information Director La Salle College News Bureau Philadelphia, Penna. 19141 Office Phone: (Area Code 215) Victor 8-8300, Ext. 286 Home Phone: CApital 4 4776 THE 1964-1965 SEASON ATHLETICS STAFF JAMES J. HENRY Director of Athletics It might be considered somewhat ironic that James J. Henry should be Director of Athletics at La Salle College, a school that has not had a football team since 1941, for foot- ball has played a great part in Jim Henry's life. Before being graduated from Vil- lanova in 1930, Henry received All American honorable mention at end, and when he came to La Salle in 1930 he was named line coach, then head coach in 1940 and 1941. In 1961 he was president of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Officials Association, and still offici- ates many of the nation's top grid contests, i.e., Navy-Notre Dame, Princeton-Harvard, Army-Navy. Football, however, is only part of the story of Jim Henry, for he is a man devoted not merely to a single sport, but to athletics and what col- lege athletics stand for. In his 34 years at La Salle—30 which have been spent as Athletic Director— he has given of his time and energy equally for all sports. He coached the 1931 Explorer basketball team to a 15-4 record and started La Salle's crew, the first Catholic College crew in the nation. A total of nine varsity sports bring national recognition to the college through his guidance. Mr. Henry is a member of the Eligibility Committee of the Middle Atlantic Conference and Holiday Tournament Selection Committee of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. He is also vice president of the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame and Maxwell Memorial Football Club. A professor of Finance on La Salle's faculty, Henry received the honorary degree of doctor of law from the college in 1955. He and his wife have three adult children, one of whom is a member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, the teaching order that conducts La Salle. ROBERT W. WALTERS Head Basketball Coach (Second Season) When Bob Walters was named head coach of the Explorers on April 8, 1963, he became the first alumnus to assume this position since Charles McGlone's three-year term ended at the end of the 1948- 49 campaign. He celebrated his return to the school by guiding the Explorers to their finest campaign in a decade during the 1963-64 season. La Salle finished with a 16-9 record and its first Big Five and ECAC Quaker City Holiday Tournament Cham- pionships. Walters. 38, carries an outstanding portfolio of previous basketball experience, including a brilliant career as a player, a tenure as assistant to the highly-regarded Ken Loeffler at La Salle, and a five year term as a high school coach. "One of the happiest and most enlightening years I've spent was under Ken," explains Walters, referring to the 1952-53 campaign when he was Loeffler's assistant. Because of the death of his father, Walters was forced to resign this position at the end of the season to devote full attention to his family's prosperous plumbing and air conditioning contracting business. As a player, Walters was known for his great shooting, especially from the outside. He led the Explorers in scoring all four years of his varsity career (1943-47), finishing with a total of 1,193 points, which made him the all-time La Salle scoring leader until Larry Foust sur- passed him three years later. In the 1945-46 season, Walters, a 5'10" guard, scored 367 points, then a Pennsylvania state scoring record. A two-time captain of the Explorers, Walters had the distinction of being the captain of La Salle's first post-season tournament team in 1947, when the Explorers finished runnerup in the Middle Atlantic Conference tourney. Walters was named to Philadelphia's All-City team three times and received All-State and honorable mention All American recognition in his senior year. A native of Philadelphia, Walters attended St. Joseph's Prep. After graduating from La Salle College, he was head coach at Philadelphia's Roman Catholic High School for five seasons. Opposing coaches in the Catholic League at the time were Jack Kraft, of Villanova, and Jack Ramsay, of St. Joseph's. Walters is a former president of La Salle's Endowment Foundation and present co-chairman of the college's special Gifts Committee. A resident of suburban Meadowbrook, Pa., he and his wife, Frances, have four children: Susan, 19; Robert W., Jr., 15; William, 14, and Chris- topher, 12. JOSEPH W. HEYER Freshman Basketball Coach (Second Season) Joseph W. Heyer, one of the fin- est all-around guards in La Salle College history, returned to the Ex- plorers for his collegiate coaching debut and compiled a fine 12-1 rec- ord last year, after a highly suc- cessful tenure at Philadelphia's Cardinal Dougherty High. After graduating from La Salle in 1960, Heyer guided the Cardinals to the final game of the Catholic League Playoffs all three years of his coaching reign. His overall record was 54-20. Heyer also coached baseball and taught history and gym at Cardinal Dougherty. He plans to continue his teaching duties while working for a Masters degree in Education at Temple University, besides coaching the Explorer yearlings. A 26 year-old native of Philadelphia, Heyer scored a total of 928 points during his varsity career at La Salle from 1957 to 1960.