Long Island University at Brooklyn - Sound Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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from the knees, or teaming with Shech ' ii; man in the famous LIU system around the foul circle. But Butchs torte was izir- defensive play, not his paintescorin: Cleanly and flawlessly, Schwartz dogge: his man, intercepting passes and leaiti; matety blocking the attempts of the dop- position to tally. Butch was the closest thing to the now legendary John Br i berg. 0111s When King put his jersey away, the question was HWho'tt till his shoes? Not only did Hank Beenders tilt Bilts shoes, but, at times, outgrew them A rock of Gibraltar against Oregon in the: opening Garden game, Beenders was soon lost in the limelight 0t Lobeiias shooting and King's aH-arourid play. However, someone was needed far the King-less Blackbirds, and Hank titted the bill. Powerful underneath, dead-eyed from outside, and suddenly proticient a2: a pivot-man, Beenders kept LIU in the game against Duquesne, and almost singiewhanded won the Canisius 5563 encounter. Hank set a 1940341 Garden scoring record against the Buffalo Grite tins with twenty-three points. The attie tudihous junior has clinched a spot on next years starting five. Saul Cohen came up wrapped inside a few thousand picas of publicity, here aided as a potential great, it . . . The tit, revolved around Saul's refusal to shoot, despite the accurate eye he had displayed as a freshman cager. How- ever, a column by Richards Vidmer smacked Cohen out of his trance, and the point total surged With nearly every attempt from the floor. In the eyes of many, the iSpider' developed into a bet- ter shot than Si Lobelio. Cohen, slow of foot and therefore unable to go ON the way on a drive, learned to teint or stop and shoot from beneath. Increased confidence Will make Cohen an out- standing basketeer in his next two sea- sons. Next year's squad may be the most formidable in LiUis history. Besides Beenders and Cohen, there'll also be Schneider, Fucarino, VVaItersori, Hohlb, and the great undefeated trosh tive. Oh, yes, Clair Bee'll be around, tOO

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.F, m '7 u- 0 .d' - 5: r- O m D Q-f'l' $5 pun. 4v W075..- ,3va .4 93E. : birthday. Back to the old stamping grounds, Madison Square Garden, Mon- day, the 24th, and a tired but scrappy quintet edged Canisius 55-53 in the final three seconds of play. The fifth obstacle was hurdled in snow-swept Philadelphia when LIU turned. defeat into victory with an overtime 42-41 win on the last night of February. There were individual as well as team triumphs tor the Long Islanders. The tireless, driving Shechtman, probably the greatest play-maker in the nation, led the way offensively and defensively. You won't find Ossie's name up there with the point-leaders but he sparked the at- tack He set up Lobello's pop shots, screening perfectly. He fed King or Been- ders in the bucket, and found the weak SDots in an opponent's defense through which Schwartz or Schneider would later drive. The one and only Bill King, acclaimed not only as the greatest athlete ever to YWear the Pearl Street institution's colors, GM as a tine team man, a gentleman, and a sportsman, concluded his play for Walterson, Shechtman LIU against Butler, Ianuary 19. Along with accolades and Have atque vale's from the press, Dolly received a hand- some trophy from his classmates. Bill capped the day by scoring 19 points against the hapless Indiana outfit. It was an in and out year for Si Lo- bello, whom the New York Post once called Nthe greatest set-shot in America. Si began the season with sixty points in the first three games,but,1osing con- fidence against close-guarding Michigan State and Duquesne, ended second in the metropolitan scoring. When Si's pops were not dropping, he was a lost boy, and the Blackbird attack moved without him. However, Lobello im- proved tremendously underneath the cords and his soft passes to Shechtman more than made up for lapses in out- side shooting. It was tlite-saver' Lobello in those hectic five games toward the end of February and rave notices from the mid-west, south, and Philly proved. Si's value to the team. His greatest in- dividual performances were his twenty- point total against Rice, five tallies in the last four minutes of the Canisius struggle, and clutch baskets during the LaSatle second half and overtime. Sol Schwartz was the same old Butch- er Boy, flinging in a screwy lett-hander, popping his peculiar arcs that begin Schwartz. Now What time is it? Starting at 12 o'clock, read- ing counter-clockwise, we see Shart, Beenders, Lobello, King, and

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:ti': dead-eyed LE; uidcient cs :ept 1411 in the a 3nd almost Crisius 55-53 343-41 Garden :9 Buffalo Grif- vvt, The alti- .g... :9: a spot on ..-.o::oed 1.1131419 :chsitYr her- -. ;f , The :5 refusal 10 1.: eye he had .Mggler. HOW' 1.; Vidmer gxce, an d v 1935' every - the eyes 01 I ' 1'19 0 bet- :en s1oW -: r 1x. a .4 n '3 90 OH '2'? L 1k ' 56'429 1 The Pearl Street Five opened the MSG year before o record house of over 18,000, trouncing gigantic Oregon 43-31. Next come a thriller against Rice in which the Blackbirds ridiculoust ort- tempted to run With the mercury-tooted Texans and were pulled out of danger by the slow but deadly Si Lobello. Si connected With nine for eighteen, to spark a 61-57 Win. Long Island's Winning streak come to Q rude end on the fourth night of the new year When dehberote Michigan State played possession and nosed out the Beemen 31-26. LIU led at half 14-8 1n o s1ow-motion nightmare. The Blockbirds ro11ed all over DePaul and Butler, but come Ct cropper to Du- quesne's tive smart boys, who stoved off G second hcdt rush to triumph 36-34. This Was the first Garden appearance of the Ktng-1ess Blockbirds. Two nights 1oter was the Roll over Brook1yn' festival, and the Kingsmen Were crownede-but good! Then come n Final 0 6-1-11 -j . Invitanon . y',,-' , 21'. .xe0 3 gm X93 005 tact A5 v13 gen , 5 $395 1 Com? 61W. mg 505111011311 MN, dd! 5 011 , 90? X5 4N as a 590 a ea 4:5 .1 QWL W115 Ge 4 e, 311:3st the deluge of LIU Wins on the road. Trailing 11-2 and 17-11 at East Lansing, the Beemen surged through 24-23. Again spotting c1 foe a hodt-time advantage, Long Is1ond beot DePaul 44-40 in a se- cond stanza that saw the lead change hands six times. Baltimore odso grabbed c1 mid-time 1eod but succumbed 44-37. Leaden-1egged but fighting, the five spotted Conisius eighteen points with eighteen minutes to go, and inexorab1y crept up on the Griffins, triumphing 55- 53 in the final three seconds. LIU concluded the regular season's p1c1y March 5, beating To1edo at the Garden 49-43 to receive the first bid to the fourth annual Metropolitan Basket- boll Writers' Tournament. You know the rest.