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La Salle BASKETBALL HANDBOOK 1963-64 THE LA SALLE STORY 1863 Centennial Year 1963 La Salle College celebrated its Centennial Year, mark- ing 100 years of service to higher education and the Com- munity of Philadelphia, during the 1962-63 Academic Year. The College was founded March 20, 1863 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools. By 1929, having out- grown three previous locations in Phi ladelphia, the campus was moved to its present 30 acre site at 20th Street and Olney Avenue, in the Olney section of the city. The Even- ing 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 5,500 students, as compared to 1940 enrollment of about 400. In the last 15 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 Administra- tion. Seven modern residence halls accommodate over 400 out of town students. The seventh unit opened in Septem- ber, 1963. A $2 million, three story College Union Building, completed in 1959, includes a Little Theatre >ll dining halls, assembly rooms, ballroom and other student facilities. The $2.5 million Science Center, which hous- es modern lecture rooms and labora- tory facilities for study and research in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics and Psychology, was in 1960. Now on the drawing boards are a new classroom building, a chapel and an athletic activities building. Additional educational areas are located c the Elkins Park 52 acre campus and on an 80 acre area in Springfield Township. In 1950, the Army Artillery ROTC pro- gram was initiated and now numbers more than 1400 cadets. ft LA SALLE COLLEGE 1963-64 BASKETBALL HANDBOOK Table of Contents Section f — The 7963-64 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 16 Freshman Roster and Schedule Inside Back Cover 1963-64 Varsity Schedule Back Cover Section ff — The Records Last Year's Game-by-Game Scoring Chart I I Final 1962-63 Varsity Statistics, Results 12 Individual and Team Records 12 Year-by-Year La Salle Statistics 14-15 All-Time Leading Scorers and Coaching Records 14-15 Post-Season and Holiday Tournament Records 24 Series Records vs. All College Opponents 26 Ail-Time Won-Lost Record by Individual Conference 27 1962-63 Middle Atlantic Conference Standings 28 (Cover Photo: Coach Bob Walters and La Salle's 1963-64 captain and All American candidate, Frank Corace) All Photography by Charles F. Sibre 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 ROBERT S. LYONS, JR. Sports Information Director La Salle College News Bureau Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141 Office Phone: Victor 8-8300, Ext. 301 Home Phone: CApital 4-4776 THE 1963-64 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 football has played a great part in Jim Henry's life. Before being graduated from Villanova in 1930, Henry received All-American honorable ^ ^^^^ mention as an end, and when he came to La ^^fl a ^H Salle in 1930, he was soon named line coach, +hen head ' 00+ba " coacn »" l940 and l94L I E ^11 I E& ^H I In 1961 he was the president of the Eastern fl I Intercollegiate Football Officials Association, I^^^Bm. fiSS RC^ ^^^^^M an j s fj|| officiates 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 college athletics stand for. In his 33 years at La Salle, 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. Other intercollegiate sports organized at La Salle during Henry's tenure as Athletic Director include soccer, cross-country, swimming, baseball, track, tennis, and golf. He also serves on the executive committee of the Middle Atlantic States Athletic Conference. La Salle's athletic director since 1934, Henry received the honorary degree of doctor of law from the college in 1955 and is now pro- fessor of Finance on the faculty. He and his wife have three adult children, one of whom is a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the teaching order that conducts La Salle. Robert W. Walters Head Basketball Coach (First Season) Bob Walters was named head coach CWhen^s. of the Explorers on April 8, 1963, he became \ the first alumnus to assume this position 1 since Charles McGlone's three-year term *• ended at the end of the 1948-49 campaign. Walters, 37, brings with him an outstand- ing portfolio of previous basketball experi- ence, 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 enlighten- ing 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), fnishing with a total of 1,193 points, which made him the all-time La Salle scoring leader until Larry Foust surpassed 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 recogni- tion 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 Philadel- phia'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, so Walters is no stranger to Big Five coaching techniques. 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, 18; Robert W., Jr., 14; William, 13, and Christopher I I Joseph W. Heyer Freshman Basketball Coach IFirst Season) Joseph W. Heyer, one of the finest all- around guards in La Salle College history, returns to the Explorers for his collegiate coaching debut after a highly successful tenure at Philadelphia's Cardinal Dougherty High. After graduating from La Salle in I960, 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 /'/.>UVH:3? history and gym at Cardinal Dougherty. He *NS>* f * plans to continue his teaching duties while working for a Masters degree in Education at Temple University, besides coaching the Explorer yearlings. A 25 year-old native of Philadelphia, Heyer scored a total of 928 points during his varsity career at La Salle from 1957 to I960. During the 1958-59 campaign, he became only the fourth junior in La Salle history to go over the 400 point mark in single-season scoring, finish- ing with 402. Heyer was named to the Middle Atlantic Conference First team in his junior year, and Philadelphia's All Big Five team, the following campaign. LA SALLE COLLEGE ATHLETIC COMMITTEE Chairman Dr. Robert Courtney, Associate Professor, Political Science Brother M.