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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Thu: 1.3g Q... n? - birds. However, C111 your comparative scoreSt and all your opinions were so much trash When little Tom Colello grabbed King's opening kick-otf on his own 15 yard line. The hot K'nish bock twisted omd turned and spun through the entire Long Island defense to register six points. At least five Beemen had clear shots at the flying Colello. The Blockbirds quickly tied the count but Colellct went to work again, intercepting 0 pass and throwing CI thirty yord touch- down toss to upset the dope, 14-7. LIU's nineteen first downs to the victors, three failed to equalize Colello's scintillating ploy. Dizzy Deon, who spearheaded the Blackbird attack, suffered a severe neck injury in the second half omd wos cotr- ried from the field. A three week rest sent the Beemeri into the Louisville tray in perfect con- dition, and the Kentucky eleven never was in the boll gome. Another sopho- more, speed-boy Tom Kretz, mode his debut by streaking forty yards on a touchdown jaunt to leotd the offensive to o 29-6 victory. The tinole-ogoinst Toledo University, 0 rival of long standing both in basket- ball and football. The Blackbirds out- pointed the Rockets, 13-12, in their first meeting in Ohio, and staged c1 repeat performance at Ebbets Field this year, winning 19-7. Bill King, great end, took two flott posses from Trocolor and went titty omd thirty yards to tally twice. Lou Coppola added the final score in the lost minute of play, intercepting c1 desperate Rocket pass and going twenty yards to pay dirt. Toledo has never beaten LIU in five tries on cage court and gridiron. But the football season cannot be passed over by merely mentioning the six games played. There was the in- imitable Took Miley's annual HBlockbirds to the Rose Bowl column in the New York Post otter LIU had won its first Here's the squad: First row, left to righte-Anthony Colonori, Alfred Lout, Louis Coppola, Iohn Gitsos, Iohn Decker, Bill Byrne. Seoond row-Dizzy Deon, George Powell, lorry Cooper, Allie Goldberg, Dick Skwuor, Leo Loinott, Bernard Kopitonsky, Mike Rizzo, Louis Friedenthol, Victor Rosen- blumt Third roweloe Zucconi, Bob Trocolar, Dick Shellogg, A1 F181SC'hmGITI, Bondy Iohnsen, Albin Zdonevich, Rush Metling, Tom Kretz. What time 1s it now? , .. , rv: v1- i a'.'i.. a 1'.'. ' Ti 0 9.! 3 J3. 'oq 5-1;: 4 .i 24.97 1r. L. L: t? ht In. 3:? q- .. . 3 J t 1.115;: t, ' :03 :an