Canisius College - Azuwur Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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'-N3 Inq' CH. L - r . ,nz -R, .nw i i t '5.'lL- . xr. Af,-C . 11 I' rj: fpun -1'-!?5.'. ' f ' rf s ,ag .i. Canisius St. Bonaventure 59 Canisius Siena 44 C Canisius Loyola 63 l Canisius Boston College 52 Canisius Manhattan .66 Canisius Scranton g 64 -American candidate Ed O'Connor. Canisius' failure rebound hurt considerably. Despite this heart breaking loss to the New Yorkers, Griffins bounced back into the win column with a mph over Scranton on the Pennsylvania court. John Carthy scored 26 points and Hank Nowak l9 as Buftalonians rocked the home team to the tune of -64. fter they finished with the scrapping of Scranton, club travelled to Philadelphia, where they failed show any signs of brotherly love as they smacked Wildcats of Villanova. With four of the tive rters hitting for twin figures, the Domers left the aker City with an 86-63 triumph in their bag of ories. ank Nowak netted 26, Bob Adams l9, Joe Leone and John McCarthy l7 as the marvelous manipu- ons of the Grifts' caused NCAA tongues to wag. fter accepting a bid to their First post season rnament in eleven years, Canisius once more dis- yed their offensive and defensive ability as they t a bewildered Iona five, 71-48. Once again, it Psst! Ziggie, it's me. Buftalo's 5th mugging victim

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Get off his feet ref, he gives up Wifh this ring We won this one 80 pace as he poured 26 points through the hoop to the team. Mal Duffy, Bona's scoring ace, hit for 2 Next in, line for the high flying Griffins were iizjdians of Siena. The Blue and Gold cagers proved be too much for the visitors to hcindle. The com forces of Johnny McCarthy and Hank Nowak led vicious onslaught which saw Canisius end up on long end! of a 79-44 count. N Facing a surprisingly strong Loyola of Balt squad, the Main Streeters scored a ten point tri by defeating the visitors 73-63. When Boston College came to BuFfaIo's Mer Auditorium, the: Griffins showed they hadn't lost defensive touch and scoring punch as they ran BC of the Auditorium on the short end of a 7l -52 Once again it was John McCarthy who led the D by hitting the hemp for 23 points. After winning eleven of their last 14, the G Domers were handed their fourth loss by a s shooting Manhattan quintet. The Griffs came close tying the game but at the final gun were behind seven, losing 66-59. The Jaspers were led by

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was the scoring duo of McCarthy and Nowak, with l A and l7 points, which led the onslaught. The third time Canisius met the Brown Indians of S Bonaventure, many optimistic observers said that th Olean invaders were due to win this encounter since they had everything in their favor. Canisius' hea coach Joe Curran was in the hospital and star guara John McCarthy was out with the virus. Despite this gloomy forecast, the Griffs nailed t lid down on another triumph as they rocked the l dians, 74-62. Nowak meshed 20 while Dave Marke starting in place of McCarthy, put away 'l5. By virtue of this victory the Gritfs became the onl Canisius team to defeat the Oleaners three times .lohnnie's specialty One down, three to go Come to Papa