News Scrapbook 1956-1959

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February 1, 1958

USD Cagers See · To End Loss Skein The University of San Di- ego basketball team will at- tempt to snap its losses at five straight tomorrow night when it plays host to College of St. Joseph o1 Albuquerque, N. M,, in Kearny High gym. The Pioneers defeated tl1e St. Joseph quintet, 78-64, on the road last Dec. 19. The San Diegans also meet Los Angeles State Thur day and Laverne College Friday on foreign courts. USD dropped its f 1 f th straight t6 Pepperdine C o l- iege, 78-65, last Saturday in Los Angeles. The Pioneers . fell apart with 12 minutes to : go and the Waves scored 33 points during that time to pull away. Sterling Forbes paced the , Pepperdine c I u b with 26 points while reliable K e n Leslie potted 20 tor the Pio- neers. Ian Dl"t

2Technicals Defeat USD

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ag The University of San Diego basketballeta pla .::Ollege tomorrow night, and the wln-h11ngry Pioneers .iupllcate an early sea~on victory over the Leopards. In their t!T!rd game of the season, the P1oneera w Verne, 100:80, setting a team scoring record. It was the outstanding games of the d provided the impetus six feet, six Inches. whic rried the Alcala Park In a televised gn.me at Paea- cagers on a 12-game winning dPna FridR)', the Pione<'r~ w~re 11tr trounced, 93-70, as six-foot- ive The streak was broken by Bill Bond bombarded the nets Cal Poly recently a.nd USD haR for 29 points. Two other Pasa.- tound It almost impossible to dens College starters hov red get back into the winning col• near the same height as Bond. umn. Three more defeats last Pepperdlne College handed week now leave the Pioneen USD its sixth Joss of the season with !1ve •etbacks m a row. last Saturday. Six •foot• six In h case Coach Bob Mc- sterling Forbes canned 26 Cut ~n·• athletes h;;.ve been markers !LS his mates rambled hampered by a lack of height. to a 78-65 victory. Thi. Pioneers In a surprising sho ng agam~t. had 25 fouls called agaiMt them the •tanne Corps Recrmt 'in the contest. Depot, the Pioneers lost the I . Eervices of six-foot, four-inch In the latter two affairs Ken Cent r Lee Hammond, but Leslie led t)ie Ploneen sconng. noneth,;less battled the MarinPS The five-foot, 11-lnch guard all the way b@!ore ta.Uing, 89- collected 2'i points against 80 Pasadena and 20 against the Hammond went out of the ·waves. • game after only four minutes. The Alcala Park quintet will He started out like a. ball of fire be seen locally Monday night but re!njured a. sprained ankle when It meets Westmont Col- and hasn't seen action since. In lege at MIHlon Bay High. West- th&t contest Don Lange, former mont defeated the Pioneers, 74- Naval Academy scoring star, 64, the night after Cl!.! Poly had poured 11\ 36 points. He stands cut their winning 11tre1tk. • • • • • • Pt'ONEER PATTER By GREG PEAR. ON Althou.gh SD's television debut was somewhat tarnished by a high-scoring Pasadena College quintet last Friday, the televised contest still had Its advantages. , For one thing, It publicized the Institution all over the Southern California. area. Thousands of people who previously

LA VI-:RNE, Jan. 31-A pair or technical fouls on Univer- sity ot San Diego coach Bob 1 McCulcheon, both converted fly La Verne College's Bob, I Pucci, was the difference here tonight as La Verne defeated the Pioneers, 63-61. With the score knotted late in the game McC11tcheon de- tected a La Verne player cutting back ;icross the cen- ter line with the ball and ob- jected to the officials, R. Proc- tor and G. Thorne. A tech- nical WRS assessed, and when McCutclH•on objected again another was issued. j Ken Leslie scored J9 points high for the losers, while Puc- ci,. with 1:5, was tall for the winners USD had defcatcdt he La Verne unit, 100 • 80 ln San Diego. Hard luck dogged the Pion- eers in other ways. En route to the game-, their stationwag- c,n broke down in Temecula. Another auto was rented, but nine team members w e r e jammed in a regular passen- gr1· car. TI1ry arrived at the game al 8·00 p.m. U$P (61) ;t" TLGVll'n• mi F p T Murr. .-,, i 9 McNurty f 4 3 2 11 o t fl, Pu I 7 l O 15 Reynld, '.l Ca, ~-' 5 11 111,q t, Bu ~t'~a. 'i • u h%nc~\~o 1 J ~f f J 2 Reed t 1 o 1 2 Wh

-San Diego Union Stoff Photo DY Les Dodds MCRD and University of San Diego at Point Loma High gym. Hector Sanchez, of USD, is at right. The Ma• rines captured their 22nd straight without a defeat, 89-80, le:---us~D =Op=--:-'.po=--ses-

Center Frank Allen (12) of the San Die o Marines clear the board, out- reaching USD's center Lee Hammond (2'i) and guard Bobby Maines (14) last night in basketball game between

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had been unaware of the Uni- versity of San Diego now know that the school Is In existence. • • • Alrnollt M lmporta.nt IS the fact that a brilliant athlete na.med Ken Leslie finally managed to receive the recog- nition that for. so long has been due him. The main rea- 1on tor USD's basketball suc- cesses for the la st couple years, Leslie has received very little aim ocally. However, Friday was his night. Although out$COl'ed by towering Bill Bond, a candi- date for I,, tie All-American honors, the Pioneers captain PIONEERS IDLE AS GAME OFF University of San Diego's scheduled basketball game at Los Angeles State tonight has been called off, accord- ing to USD coach Bob Mc- cutcheon. The Pioneers' next outing is tomorrow night at La Verne.

Pasadena five Spacial 10 The San Diego Union PASADENA, Jan. 23 - The University ot San Diego, hop-

drew raves from sportscaster Sam Balter. In fact, the lat- ter termed Leslie "one of the finest players I've seen In the past few years." An "audi- ence" of several tho11sand probably agreed with him. . . .. Reserve Bob Turpin al~o drew the attention of the KTLA sportscaster, but for a different reason. Turpin was sporting a "goatee" and Bal- ter got quite a kick out of It. Whenever it as possible the camera would give a face shot of the bewhiskered Turpin, which made hfm the center of attention when he returned home Sunday. • • • The USD Boosters Club held another one of its gala. money-raising dinners at the Mission Valley Country Club Sunday evening. There were 200 persons present at the S5.50-a-plate function, and the proceeds went Into the USD athletic fund. • • • Incidentally, the emcee at the Boosters' dinner was City Councilman Ross Tharp. The young councilman has been a. U$D booster since the incep- tion of the athletic program. • • • PauJ Platz, USD Mslstant football coach, returned early this week from a. "tour" to Northern California. D11ring his seven days on the road he visited 10 junior colleges and talked to nearly 60 foot- ball prospects. Platz reports that the picture for next fall looks "very promising." • • • For a player who was de- clared "out of action for the remainder of the seMon," Paul Reynolds has been doing a bang-up job for Coach Bob McCutcheon's hoop squa.d. The leading rebounder on le.st year's tea.m, Reynolds sprained his ankle January 18 and waa reported through for the season. However, he got Into the MCRD game, scored 18 points and grabbed 23 re- bounds. He also led the team in rebounds during last week- end's engagements and now has taken over the team lea.d• ershlp In that department,

By JOHNNY ing to end Its losing streak Strin y Don Lange, tormer lo tits one big man. 6-6 center at three, battles tough Pasa- U. S. _aval Academy hoo~- Lee Hammond, early in the dena College here tomorrow shot artist, kept the San Di- game because of a bad fall, . ht . t 1 vised basket. ego Marines' winning streak it tound rebound effective- mg m a e e alive last night by canning 36 ness in Paul Reynolds, who l ball game. points and leading his club to is 6-3. Reynolds had 23 re• The game to be televised a hard-fought 89-80 victory bounds- mo tly in the_ second i by KTLA, channel 5, will over the University of S a n hall and scored lS points. I start at 9 : 30 o'clock. Di.i;:;o in Point Loma H i g h H~ctor Sanch~z, who stands After rolling up an impres- gj • ~nlj 5-9. and Ken Leslle_, at sive 12 .game victory streak , Lange, who stretches 6-6, ;:i-11. h~d 20 and 18 pomt~, the Pioneers dropped sue- connected on 17 of 31 field respectively, for the collegi- I cessive conte ts to Cal Poly goal attempts. mostly on ans . of San Luis Obispo W e st- hook.~ and tip m , to enable The Marines hit on 4 .4 per mont College and th~ San Di- the _ Leatherneck~ ~o ro!lect cent of their shots to USD 's ego Marines. SD's record is their 2'2nd straight victory. 41.4. 12-4 Ed Cain, a former all-Na- The Leathernecks jumped · . . tlonal Association o! Intercol• out to a 6-2 lead but a Ham- The P10~eers will be he'.1d· legiate Athletics performer mond layup and Leslie's setl ed by their o~e-two s_cormg from Kansas State Teachers quickly evened the count and j punch, guard Ken Leslie and College, added 20 to the cau e. Bobby Maines' two 1 r e e forward Hector Sanchez. A lot o! credit goes to the throws put USD ahead, 10-8. ~O!be 1n the start~g lineup scrappy ·tt1e Pioneers, who Cain, Frank Allen and Jerry will be forward Dick Mur- almost dosed the gap with Rettig put the ;Marines on ray, certfer Lee Hammond three minutes to play. USD top, 13-12, bu, a set by Maines a d guard Walter Cooper. actually held a brief I ea d gave the collegia II their last ! The San Dicgans, however, after four minutes in the first lead, 14-13. A.ft~r hat basket, 1 are e~cted to be without period, went cold !or e i g ht USD went eTght m1nutes with- the services of outstanding minutes and later battled back out a tield goal until Maines reserve forward Paul Reyn- lrom a 15-pomt deficit. got a tip-in. Then, the Ma- olds. Reynolds suffered a The Marines commanded rines had a 30-20 lead. severely injured ankle against the show in the first hall with The Marines began moving Westmont and is believed lostJ a zone defense, controlled the out from a 40-30 halftime lead for the season. boards and batted away sev- on the hook shots of Lange. - lcDONALD

era! USD basket attempts. Lange scored 10 o! the first MCRD switched to the man- 11 points for the Marines In for.man in the second half in the second half and with 12 an attempt to outrun the col- mi01ut~ left, MCRD led com. legians but found them mov-,fortably, 56-41. Ing. too. The scrappy Pioneers be- Despite the fact that USD. gan to roll and with eight min-

l utes left only trailed 65-59. After two Leslie free throws with six minutes to go it was 71-66 for the Marines. At the three-minute mark it was 75- 70. But Lange's hook and tip and a drive in by Cain put a damper on the rally. USO (IO) MCRD (If) OFl'T . GFP1 Murrav,f 2 o" , Lan~e,f 17 2 2 3c t~~~1~{1 : : i tz :,1u:er1.1 g i i 1 1 Hammond,1 2 o 2 4 Allen,c 7 2 1 1, [~~fl~~gc 2 g 1i ~~/~g!,I g Moines,g 3 -' -4 10 Honnon,9 2 O S • Cooper,g 2 'l l , Total• 2t 22 1' 10 Total• 3' 11 U 31 ~~iD ··.:: :: .. . ..: .. :· :& lt::1 Free throws missed: USO - Sanchez Eg~~~ldf; A~,:~ne 2, ~~~nei. l. MCRD-

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Jan1ary 31. 195e

1Westmont Routs USO

USD Seeks No. 14 Against La Verne

Westmont College o! Santa Ba:bar": pinned the slumping Umvers1_ty of San Diego Pio- ;1eer_s with their seventh loss m. e1_ght basketball games at Mission Bay last night, 70 _48 _ W~stmont held only a 3 4 . 31 halftime advantage but quick- ly pulled away when tM Pio• necrs tailed to score durin the five minutes following in termission. George Terzian, a 6-.i for- w":rd, led the winners with 21 pomts. Ken l~slie's 13 points led USD, which got down just 18 o! 64 shots for a tepid 28 per c_ent. The Pioneers were par- t1cularl_y . cold in the second half, .h1ttmg only six fielders and Just 16 per cent of their pokes. Westmont (70J USO C • IJ McCloskv, f f 6 t T Terzian, f 9 3 1 2f ~urroy,f WIison, f 2 1 o S Ronchez, f Heinrichs, c 6 1 2 13 L ev,;iolds, c Skelton, c 1 0 2 2 9 Arens, g 5 O 3 10 Reed f ~~ft• 9 9 1 f PdreWskft GF~T I < J 6 5 2 0 12 < 3 2 11 6 1 l 13 1 2 1 < 0 0 l O 1 0 0 2 1112: Halftime score-Westmont 3, USO I • a so~,re~el~~r~~s 3 m~~~-WJlbmoMnt-Ylk Reynolds, Leslle.' • - urray, Newhart, 111 1 o o 2 Totals 32 611 70 Totals

The University of San Di- La Verne College at La Verne. ego basketball team will go Tipoff is scheduled for 8 after its 14th victory tonight o'clock. l when it travels north to play r The Pioneers defeated La

J anuary 28 1 1958 USO Hopes To Rebound Aga inst St. Joseph I Head~d by high-scoring Ken Leslie and Hector Sanchez the Umvers1ty of San Diego basketball team hopes to get back on the win road tonight when it faces College of St J os~phs ot Albuquerque in Kearny High gym. · T1pof1 ls scheduled for 8 ---'---------- p.m. P I R Id USD, hobbled somewhat by au eyno s, who is the Injuries and lack o! he! ht center replacement, also is l have dropped five strafght ~mpered by a sprained an- ,games. They lost to Pasadena and Pepperdine Colleges 93 oach Bob McCutcheon ls 1 70 and 78-65, over the ...; k· expected to start Sanchez and 1 end. ee · Dick Murr a y at forwards, 1 . Reynolds at center and Les- The Pioneers played with- lie and either Walter Cooper ~t the services of starter or Bobby Maines at guards. e Hammond, a 6-5 center, The Pioneers defeated the ln the last. !'Vo games be- St. Joseph quintet In Albu. cause of an mJured knee while querque, 78-64, last Dec. 19.

Verne, 100-80, in San Diego Dec. 13. USO has lost s i x times. Heading the USD quintet will be veteran Ken Leslie, who has averaged better ' than 18 points in 19 contests. C o a c h Bob McCutcheon's starting club is expected to be Hector Sanchez and Dick Murray -at forwards, P a u 1 Reynolds at center and Wal- ter Cooper and Leslie at !guards.