LMU Men's Soccer 2008 Media Guide
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LMU Men’s Soccer 2008 Media Guide 85 INSIDE LMU history of lmu athletics: Decades of Champions. 1890 – 1910 Then known as St. Vincent’s College, the school is known on record as having a football team and a bas- ketball team. The year 1889 is shown to be the first game of football while the 1906 season was the first for basketball. The records show the Lions going 5-0 as a basketball team in 1906. 1910-1930 Loyola College was founded in 1911 as an outgrowth of St. Vincent’s College, the first college in Los Ange- les. In 1924 the College opened a new gym on the old St. Vincent’s campus. A year later the Lions post first season with double-digit wins in basketball, going 10-7 in the 1924-25 season. Coached by Harold “Bill” Hess, the Lions had wins over Woodbury Business Col- lege, Cal Tech and the Hollywood All-Stars. In the fall of 1925, George Casey became the third head coach of St. Vincent’s, finishing his only year as coach 6-5. In 1926 the school played in its first overtime game, a 20- 16 loss to Whittier. They win their first overtime game a year later, a 16-14 victory against California Chris- tian College. Then in 1928, the then Loyola College moved to its current location on the Westchester bluff and two years later became Loyola University. Loyola Law School, located in downtown Los Angeles, was founded in 1920. 1930s In the 1930s Loyola established its new campus on the bluff in Westchester while basketball greats Pete Newell and Phil Woolpert began their legendary ca- reers as Lions. While Loyola discontinues the men’s basketball program for four seasons during the great depression, it is hockey of all sports that emerges as Coast title was a double overtime thriller in front of pionship in the 100-yard dash. He later played seven Loyola’s top program, thanks in large part to the use 4,000 fans. The Lions won their second PCHC champi- seasons as a tight end for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, of its football players as hockey players. The first col- onship in a row. The Lions would then win their third helping the team to the 1951 World Title. The Lions lege hockey league started in 1927 and while increas- league title in a row in a three-game playoff in 1937, men’s basketball team advanced to their first collegiate ing in popularity, it became part of the official athletic winning two games to one. With World War II on the sponsored postseason tournament, competing for the program of multiple southern California schools, thus horizon, Loyola would drop hockey in 1941 and col- NAIA National Championship. The Lions posted a 16-9 the formation of the Southern California Intercollegiate lege hockey in Southern California would slowly break record and were selected to participate in the NAIA Hockey League. USC dominated the league, winning apart. Tournament where they faced San Francisco State in 36 straight before Loyola, led by Head Coach Tom Lieb, the first round. With a 57-56 win, the Lions moved on snapped that streak on March 6 of 1932, beginning 1940s to face Southwestern (KS) in the second round. South- one of fiercer rivalries of its day. Then in the 1934-35 In 1941, the Lions face in-town rival Pepperdine for western won, 83-79. Then in 1956, the Lions joined season, the Lions knocked off USC in the prestigious the first time in the two program’s histories. They faced the California Basketball Association, which two years Yosemite Tournament for the first time and then went each other twice in the 1940-41 season, with Loyola later formed the West Coast Athletic Conference. Loy- on to defeat the Trojans for Loyola’s first conference winning both, 30-18 and 43-23. In that season, both crown. As the league grew, the main attraction contin- Pete Newell and Phil Woolpert suited up for the Lions. ued to be the games between Loyola and USC, “as the The two Loyola greats went on to become legends two teams were in a class by themselves.” The 1935-36 in the coaching profession, leading college teams to season was the year college hockey really caught on. NCAA National Championships. In 1948-1949, Loyola The final game between Loyola and USC for the Pacific went on to its first 20-win season, posting a 22-14 re- cord under coach Scotty McDonald. The Lions would see their longest winning streak at that time of 10 games. The season included the first game in Alumni Gymnasium, the Lions’ home until the 1981-82 season when the Li- ons moved to Gersten Pavilion. 1950s The 1950s started with one of best football seasons in school history as the team, led by future NFL star Don Klosterman, finished the season 8-1, losing to Santa Clara 28-26 and missing out on a trip to the Orange Bowl. Klosterman would go on to earn All-America honors in 1952. A member of that team, Bob Boyd, former Loyola football and track great, captured the 1950 NCAA men’s track cham- LMU Men’s Soccer 86 2008 Media Guide INSIDE LMU member of the Rowing Lions and went on Eight with Coxswain to host events with Team that won the the 1984 Summer Gold Medal. In 1968, Olympic Games in NBA coach Rick Adel- Los Angeles. The man finished his three- year prior to the year playing career with Olympics, the NCAA 1,425 points, averaging takes over women’s 18.8 points in his ca- sports as the Na- reer at LMU. The 1960s tional Association ended with the final for Intercollegiate curtain call of the foot- Athletics for Women ball team as they went (AIAW) is dissolved. on to win the 1969 In Women’s Tennis, National Club Football the Lions finished National championship 12th in the nation with an 8-1 record. in their division as Debbie Delgado is 1970s first recipient of All- The University merged American status. with Marymount Col- ola finished the CBA with a 9-5 record, second in the lege to become Loyola Paul Sunderland, conference. Marymount University and in 1971 women’s athletics who played both begins to appear as the Association for Intercollegiate volleyball and bas- 1960s Athletics for Women is formed to plan, govern and pro- ketball at LMU, In 1960, Loyola men’s basketball tied for first with a 9-3 mote the growing number of college tournaments for went on to earn record in the West Coast Athletic Conference. The title women athletes. That same year the five-player, full- All-America honors was shared with Santa Clara, who defeated the Lions in court game and the 30-second shot clock is introduced in volleyball at LMU and then played 10 years of the a playoff game to end the season. The Lions closed the to women’s basketball. And then one year later one U.S. National Volleyball Team, earning U.S. Player of the regular season with eight straight wins. Then in 1961, of the most important pieces of legislation for wom- Year honors three times (1978, 79, 82). He played in LMU basketball had a record breaking season for the Li- en’s athletics is put into place as Congress passes Title the 1978 and 1982 World Championships and then as ons, earning their second 20-win season, finishing 20-7 IX, setting into motion the Lions success to come in a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team, he helped overall and earning their first-ever out-right WCAC title women’s sports. Title IX officially went into effect on the team to the Gold Medal. with a 10-2 mark. Loyola started the season 3-4, but re- June 21, 1975. In 1973, Marv Wood’s baseball squad sponded with 17 wins in their final 20 games, including brought LMU its first West Coast Conference Champi- Paul Westhead is hired as head coach of the men’s a nine-game winning streak. It was the Lions’ first trip onship after a 13-game win streak allowed the Lions basketball team, replacing Ed Goorjian, who coached to the NCAA tournament, a date in the Far West Re- to clinch the title on from 1980-1985. In his first season, he leads the Lions gional at Portland. The Lions fell to Utah, 91-75 in the the final weekend of back to the postseason for the first time since 1980. first round, and fell to the consolation bracket. Utah, the season over sec- In 1985, US International and LMU begin a four-year who Loyola defeated in exhibition play 85-64 earlier in ond place Santa Clara. series that would result in the highest scoring games in the season, went on to the Final Four. Loyola defeated USC knocked off the NCAA history. After defeating USIU 84-65 in January of USC, 69-67, to earn their 20th win of the season. It was Lions and Cal State Los 1985, the “track meets” would begin. In Westhead’s head coach William Donovan’s final year at the helm of Angeles in the NCAA first season in 1985-86, the Lions would defeat USIU the Lions. In his eight years as coach, he earned 107 District 8 regionals 151-107. wins, the most among all LMU coaches. In 1964 Hugh and eventually won its Miller Foley rowed in the 1964 Olympics.