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La Salle Magazine Spring 1974 La Salle University La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Spring 1974 La Salle Magazine Spring 1974 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Spring 1974" (1974). La Salle Magazine. 141. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/141 This Book 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 Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. *X 1974 tA SALLE COLLEGE LIBR %/fys A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE 20 , s bBEN Y^4^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle171973unse A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Volume 18 Spring, 1974 Number 2 Robert S. Lyons, Jr., '61, Editor Joseph P. Batory, '64, Associate Editor James J. McDonald, '58, Alumni Sews ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS John J. McNally, '64, President Joseph M. Gindhart. Esq., '58, Executive Vice President Julius E. Fioravanti, Esq.. '53, Vice President Ronald C. Giletti, '62, Secretary Catherine A. Callahan, 71, Treasurer L* Salle Magazine is published quarterly by La Salle College, Philadelphia. Penna. 19141. for the alumni, students, faculty and friends of the college- Editorial and business offices located at the News Bureau, La Salle College. Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia. Penna. Changes of address should be sent at least 30 days prior to publication of the issue with which it is to lake effect, lo the Alumni Office. La Salle College. Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Member of the American Alumni Council and Ameri- can College Public Relations Association. CONTENTS THE YEAR WE WON IT ALL! 1 Once upon a time a coach named Loeffler. an all American named Gola, and a scrappy guard named O'Hara led La Salle to the NCAA title. Here's how it happened. THE CASE FOR COLLEGE ATHLETICS A La Salle philosopher analyzes some of the aesthetic and liturgical dimensions of sports. DON'T THEY BLOCK TRAFFIC 10 ON OLNEY AVENUE ANYMORE? From a spectator standpoint, college ath- letics just don't seem that important these days. Or do they? STORM CLOUDS OVER 13 THE NATIONAL SCENE Are big time intercollegiate athletics in trou- ble? Yes, says a reporter for Scripps-Howard Newspapers in this special report prepared for THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDU- CATION. FORMER LA SALLE ATHLETES 29 SPEAK OUT Many members of the alumni have bene- fitted from both athletic competition and scholarly pursuit in college. A portfolio of some of them in words and pictures. ALUMNI NEWS 38 A chronicle of some significant events in the lives of La Salle alumni. CREDITS— Front cover design by Omnigraphic Design; inside back cover and pages 12, 28, 31, 32, 39. Mark B. Jacobson; 30, 33-37, 40. Lawrence V. Kanevsky; 15-23, Canun Art: 7-9. Omni- graphic Design; 11, Mike Maicher; 27, Charles F. Sibre; 29. University of Pennsyl- vania. 1954 7ive U.S. congressmen were muled by a fusillade of bullets in House chamber by three Puerto ans demanding freedom for ir country . President Eisen- ver and Senator McCarthy were Using each other of being too j-d/soft on Communism . jnocrats and Republicans were gling over the question of ehood for a pair of territories led Alaska and Hawaii. The publicans wanted Hawaii aran teeing them two Senate ts) and the Democrats were landing Alaska (ditto, two seats) price. And, of course, there was t segment of southern Demo- :s who didn't want to see a in-white" territory like Hawaii litted because that would mean re support for civil rights slation. n Philadelphia, the Mayor was :k, the City Controller was ilap, and a cop from the 19th ce district named Frank L. zo was promoted to captain . v homes in Mayfair were going $10,500. A rancher in Maple de was selling for $9,250 and an additional $200 you could the same house in Lower Bucks mty. A good size house on an ! lot in Gywnned Valley was ed at $27,500 . Night life in ly meant Chubbys, the Latin ino, or the Rendezvous . wning King and Co. was selling ris Tweed topcoats for $30 . A. would fly you to Chicago for and Eastern was going to mi for $43 ... A Nash Rambler ily sedan cost $1,550* and \ was selling black and white soles for $299. Television in March 1954 mt Twenty Questions, Peter I Hayes and Mary Healy, spc casters George Walsh and J Whitaker, WPTZ, John Cams Swayze, Arthur Godfrey's Ta Scouts, Duffy's Tavern. Ro Montgomery Presents, E< Fisher, The Motorola Hour, Sti One, 1 Led Three Lives, and bo: three nights a week . Patti P Eddie Mathews, and John Ho< were endorsing Chesterfields James Stewart and June All} and "The Glenn Miller Story" v packing them in at the Stanley Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis v slapsticking it up in "Money F Home" at the Goldman . "N People," with Gregory Peck Broderick Crawford, was di smash business at the Fox Meanwhile at the nabes. C Gable, Ava Gardner, and G Kelly were featured in "Mogaml Spring Training opened with Williams breaking his collarbon his first workout, American Le; batting champion Mickey Ver holding out, and young New ^ Giants centerfielder Willie N finally getting his Army charge . Manager Eddie Joost the A's, was high on a 28-year* 150 lb. rookie second base named Forrest Jacobs ... M while, over at the Phillies ca Johnny Wyrostek was denying he was a holdout and Mel Clark robbing Stan Lopata of a "si base hit in an intrasquad game Heavyweight champ Rocky M iano was training at Grossinj and United Press was nar Duquesne's Dudey Moore "C< of the Year," a bit premat perhaps, because the hea favored Dukes would eventi lose the NIT title to Holy Cross AND ON MARCH 20, SALLE WON IT ALL! " e ,phn" S W$ Sa nAoH "" Hore rom G ' 7? ;«<* ** °<° D^ues„°% ° olin» «• ' ^ Under the Hoop 1 KM*, ft Kentucky 4// F/ve 0/ LaSalle's Starters rn ' : Pn'" Capable of ^ — . fWe • HeOustsI SS""*- ^^ fulfnm, 1 y Trips sr*w*a ^S»Co. mine Defeat - II OulllM>k USafe " not 'e Mo/ furn/'sri >u-.w, ses, Sayi Loeifler '*sJe coach We jiod By Robert S. Lyons, Jr. T„„. Vjctober, 1953. Frank O'Hara and John lyianaNo.l Grauer were sitting in the old cafeteria in for Leonard Hall, staring at a copy of the MlaSalleWthin »1^o*b«^sw* 1953-54 basketball schedule. O'Hara, captain-elect of the Explorers and a •GolasBetter Dean's List student, was a senior like Cross Grauer although the latter was a little * inEa to** older. Grauer knew the basketball scene, Than though. He played basketball at La Salle High and had played on the college's #«£; B^ /show Ri ^ »»'>' -#r-? freshman team before enlisting in the Marine Corps for two years. In lnt€ «5»»* Sp "We looked at that schedule and agreed se »*£. Wte \* tttii that we'd be pretty lucky to win half our ....,*- »=t -"• •a. fcul .' games," recalls Francis R. O'Hara, Esq., »'a,Se/yy Ha , '54, who today is the assistant general counsel of the Gulf Oil Corp., in Pitts- ^^ k . ^nOneNf burgh. " (ghf/ 4i to O'Hara and Grauer had good reason Routs Navy to be pessimistic. Gone from Kenny USalle Loeffler's 1952-53 team—his best club ever—the team generally conceded to have it all over the previous year's NIT E champs—the team that should have done -5 Win NCAA A,62 better than 25-3—the team that would efeatsUCL•w V.o// have beaten St. John's in the NIT quarter- ^ final if Jackie Moore hadn't been sick Numbers Br HERB GOOD and if Tom Gola hadn't sprained his - ^^?=: £r^£? "ST"- faSalkM ankle—were Fred Iehle, Norm Grekin, and Jack French. * UP Ratings; Moreover, Jackie Moore, the club's d,La$gl {^lordha, top rebounder, was scholastically ineligi- in first penivi last nieht ble. So was Joe Gilson, the former Public round of H ys League scoring leader from Lincoln High C er ^ toe>E^ •n *^***Oece who was supposed to supply much of the »*«*?* call' ,-.,- firepower. And so was Frannie McMena- V *^> '"! '- - -.- irf*>* -', s- - , > .A TOP En : min, the Marine Corps vet who once led " >o// c Sara- 6e _ bulletin the Catholic League in scoring at Roman OA sVoXtl Aw? Catholic. Billy Katheder, a part-time starter, had been called into the service. S tate ' And finally, Loeffler had just learned I Beats Pen" Prince that Ed Altieri, a valuable reserve, Title Game , -,;*"«o.i U|CAA couldn't play because of the five year Tonight eligibility rule. jst Bradley l^»ij. ^^H^ Its UCLA, 62 - I Ma ' Pos^ssj "•««.< LU-»di lb *» 2^ 1 - =-.. the Court - oec* [hero rM\s rf of th* Tirst reond C b Fordhani Monday « .. * Game ready " ft « 'eeuia. 1... V°' ^d &ii o.. ey, P Jr fc J'aJ- ~ J ''^. 92-76, Mfe« " •>«an.«„_T ,t .. in. ,. "you fcJz"^*" For NCAA Titl — a Yogi Berra called Gola f ^^ost experts figured that La Salle's wonderful team man. Maybe you'd like four year "city championship" string to have him a little taller, but that's (Penn and Villanova didn't compete be- hardly necessary since he has opposed cause they shared the Palestra) was over. pla\ers up to seven feet and usually After all, how far could an All America comes out on top." like Tom Gola and a slick, but small Yogi Berra, of the New York Yankees, playmaker like O'Hara carry a club with called Gola the "Joe DiMaggio of bas- nine sophomores through a schedule that ketball." Loeffler said simply, "Gola is included the Kentucky Invitational, the the best in the world." Later, before La New York Holiday Festival, the city Salle's NCAA game with Fordham.
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