St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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N.l.T. Bid for St. Francis Hoopsters 3rcat expectations and lingering doubts are the usual prelude to the opening of the basketball season. This year, under a haze of uncertainty and restlessness compounding the gloom of Butler Street, school spirit lay dormant until the last weeks of November. Maybe this would be it, our year, the Year of the Terrier. But maybe they wouldn’t be tall enough. Maybe we would beat St. John’s. And maybe we wouldn't. We would see. On December first, coach Danny Lynch followed his men onto the floor of the 69th Regiment Armory, putting themselves to the test against the Hawks of Hunter College. Exhibiting an able offense and a spirited defense, the Terriers. paced by the scoring of Raftcry and Kur-owski, served their guests an 84-16 defeat. Four days later. Rafter)- led the offensive on the Brooklyn College squad with 19 points, while Kurowski, Alexander, and new-comer Ted Kotch also scored in double figures. The 70-52 spread in the score was enough to arouse the sleepers at Butler Street. The school l cgan to take on a new complexion and a new pride. On December eighth, Alexander and Kotch. with 14 points apiece, led the Terrier attack against a strong Fairfield team. N.I.T. talk started on campus as 22

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■'Alleluia! Rislie and Stcinman pray with Hodmen for rebound. the team was rated tops in the nation on defense. The driving, kinetic excitement of their play as they rolled over Bridgeport University Sl-67 infected everyone. We began to say we; we beat them: we will beat them; tee did beat them. We were alive with their spark and spirit and force as they tackled the classy Providence Friars. But despite the equally classy defensive play of Nash and Alexander, and the .722 offensive accuracy from the line, the 1960-61 N.I.T. Champions topped us, 6S-67. An introduction to the bitterness of one-point defeat. Christmas recess buoyed our spirit and the resumption of play produced victories over inept Adelphi and stamina-less Siena squads. Raftery rode steadily toward the thousand-point mark with contributions of 27 and 18 point respectively. The Student Council bought a Terrier to serve as mascot, while a nationally prominent Villanova team came to the Armory. The tight Terrier defense, and Alexander’s superb guarding of Wildcat star Wally Jones in particular, led to a tension filled 51-18 victory. We shook the roof as Eddie Lein sank a shot from near half court, enabling the Frankies to walk off at half-time with the lead. Shook the roof because now we