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

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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.

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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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EXTRA! The lowinq herd winds Three lines from NGUnqa Dmnand 3 BmmKLYN-L. l. U. slowlq o'er Hue lea r Brahms concerTO ?or q00d 0'6 psyrhologisl would use J ' '9' a o 00 GObllf-SROUJSRLI ! t t O ,. o .2 , sail music and poetry Where was 6 thaT's noT qounq Iadq Tram QUITE +he Yon hers -. who thouth Shea. gr lzowskw So Ends 0ur Fight... The Blackbird eleven opened its 1940 and possibly its last season Ctt Brooklyn College, September 28, under a warm Indian summer sun and played to CI slow-motion 6-0 Win before 4000 fans. . It was a distinct disappointment, both The red, Whlt? and blue Ibusf-erexttlers financially and competitively. The Bee- from Sen Antomo, St Marys 0d dextis, men were sluggish, and handicapped by drove m.to New York. and HOG e th e lack of practice. For fifty-four minutes mettopohtan pgpers Wlth blurbs on. en the Kingsmen's little Lenny Raff punted ablhty and thelr-c-oach, Ole Mose Slim?- and rcm the legs Off his heavier foese BM Q11 the'pubhc1ty was to no m.fw' Sr then blitzkrieg struck in the shape of C1 the ,BlGCkblrdS were red hOt behmd t1: spread formation, Bob Trocolqr's pitching tossmg Of Tr-ocolar emd LOU cagpfeo arm, cmd Bill King waiting on the good and. the CGtChmg Of DlZZY Dean cm ored line for the lazy pass that resulted in RQVlnSkY' The Pearl Street gangdSC tter six points and the bcdl game two qu1ck tOUCthWDS, converte CI ' both, and won 14-7. ' Y Q ;,. .1 z b . '3: W e. . . s. .- u . . 2. ha: a 0 3.. Q .N .3 T V. . x hN .97 .9: Q . t . Q; ti 5; 1T; 1. k00 6:. n .. i 13 l c: t 3.1 W- 'V .. v ' ,?,t,g-:.4 0. . o,!,n'2n.1 twinkling feet of sophomore Johnny Git- sas and the powerful line play of another second year man, Rush Methng, and repeated its 1939 win, 6-0. 'l'Jl'f..,,'.'ln... ? T4 0' ' e'P I A ' .fg'ofvlv. ' v! u; - 4 Ida'ff'h. A week later the eleven faced CI sup- Came the soft touch of the campaign, posedly sterner task When the Providence F . . Canisius College. The Griffins from Buft mars moved mto Ebbets Field to battle fglo had dropped c1 few, and were OUt' Long Island. However, LIU unveiled the manned by the Rose Bowl bound Black- 1 1 .IA 04 11W?- Y: ' ' t ' . . . . .. ..... .t. . . , , ., . . . , . , -.'A,, - .,- . --.., .. t , gr. ..A n. 1 LLttc . t . ml :qu. v .' r 1.; v.-.. mum. .mxthquznt-afnce$ceo cM.-L$r.u g-.J-uL;-, -ru. L t n -