News Scrapbook 1956-1959

THE SAN DIEGO UNION Thurs., Jan. 24, 1951\) ·b • 9 SAN DIEGO, OALIFO&NU MCRD Fiv Rugged foe For Pioneers By JOJINNY McDONALD Coach Cheesy Nell's red-hot Marine Corps Recruit Depot basketball squad, winner in six of its last seven games, will meet the University of San Di- ego tonight at 7 p.m. In the Point Loma High gym Heading the Leathernecks are four players who have averaged more than 11 points per game this season. Th,e De- pot, which is currently tied for the 11th Naval Dist r I ct League lead, has an overall record of 15-9. Forward Bol> Griggas, a for- mer Minnesota cager, is the top man for the Marines with 431 points In 24 games and an 18.2 average. His scoring aides are center Frank Allen (13.7), forward Jerry Rettig (13.4) and guard Bill Asimos (11.9) . In a Northern California road trip last week, Rettig scored 30 points In two consecutive games. Coach Fon John on's Pio- neers have a 10-9 season after a slow start. Forward Chuck Thomeczk j and guard Ken Leslie lead the USD scoring attack. Thome- czk took over the club's Indi- vidual scoring lead for th e fir t time this season with 207 points and an average of 10.9 while Leslie has 203 and 10.7. In starting berths along with Thomeczk and Leslie will be Ken Kettrick at the o t h e r guard, Lee Hammond at the other forward and Carl Hen- drickson at center. Hammond Iii the thi,d hight est scorer on the club with 1& and an average of 9.8 and als is the top rebounder with 212. , University o! San Diegt game averages. Thmczk, f •. f; 12f.i l~P 2f: 10'9 Le,ue. r . 19 231-75 76-53 203 10 7 Hmmnd, t . 19 2JS--.7~ 73--36 186 9 8 Hdk.~n, c • 10 U&-53 63--36 142 7 5 Rynld&. ! .. . 19 139--47 64-41 135 7 l Rot.11 .,r 15 86-36 31-19 91 6 1 Rdt:slt, I•·• . 16 93-32 27-11 8:1 5 5 Kttrck, e .. .. 18 83--32 60-32 96 s 3 Snchz. . •.•.11 28-11 11-8 30 2 8 Trpn, e .• 1& 49-H 20-10 38 2 4 Crmwl. f . . . 13 211-10 17-8 28 2.2 Total• 19 1,33&-451-5:tl-330-1,238,6,>:.!

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B JOHNNY JIIcDONALD Jo! McNamara's 70. yard week's work had to be spoiled rn touchdown run gave the Blues by the rain," coach Mc a 7-0 victory over the Whites said following the contest. He said he has a g$d idea of San Diego scrimmage yes- what he needs and who he'll terday at Marine Corps Recruit retain from the spring candi- Depot. dates for next fall. A driving rain induced coach "McNamara's going to ~e a Bob McCutC'heon to call an end real good back and I '.1-lso liked to the game-type scrimmage the work of fullback Bill Frank- after 30 minutes Jin, halfback Tom Kelly, tackle u N · . , romp off left Charley Franklin and Stephen- me ama a s ., I dded guard was the longes run of 50n, 1e a • . the conte ·t. Vernon Valdez, for- The new coach and athletic mer Antelope Valley junior col- director- said he')! keep 15 from lege quarterback, kicked the ex- the sprmg candidates. Forty- tra point. one che ked out smts last week McNamara was the first and 13 quit before yesterday's string quarterback for the Pi- scrimmage. . , oneern last year. He has been McCutch_eon, who said he 11 moved to ha :fback. start looking tor men May 1, The Whites. guided by quar- indicated he hoped to have a terback Tony Garibay and squad of around 40 men 11ext fullback George Stephenson. fall. drove ahout 50 yards but fum-'l "We're fairly good at quarter- l>led away an opportunity to back. need another follb'.1-ck to score on the five yard line. be three dPep and will pick up }' Tues., !\lay 7, 1957 1 Pioneers Go South For Grid Contests University of San Diego's Mission Valley Country Club. football team will travel south Home games will be agal st of the border for two games New Mexico Western Sept :28, in Iexico City this fall. Pomona College Oct. 12 d e Pioneers will play the farlne ·corps Recruit De t Uni ersity of Mexico Nov. 9 Oct. 26. The Pioneers open d M · Poly Nov 16 ac- with Arizona State at Flag- an ex1co · • Whit- cording to a tentative schedule staff Sept. 21 and play announced yesterday at a USD tier College, there, Oct. 19, and Boosters' Club luncheon at Pepperdine there, Nov. 23. in the rain-shortened"University EVENING TRIBUNE !!Alf 1111':Gf). f/AtIFOJtN:t.& b

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James R. !Bob) McCutcheon, Antelope Valley junior coUeg coach, signed a two-year contract yesterday as athletic dir and football coach at the University of San Diego. No salary terms were revealed although it is believed Cutcheon will gel an estimated $7,000 qach year. This confirms a story first ----"-------..;..i;a.J published in The San D i e g o year. Kuhn was fo'.·ced to glv Union of farch 3 that Ille- ur the part lime _Job be~a . of pressmg l>usmess mt Cutcheon had the inside track ests. among 19 candidates for the MeCutcheon, 33. jol>. l'eceive his release Present .it th n W<'re lope Valley a~ the end oC the the Right RI'\ {s •. John sc•mcster. He is married and Storm, president of the Univer- has tw.o daughte1·s. iaity; '.11urray Goodrich, presi- The new athletic direc or dent of the USO Boosters Club, said he will bring alon and Gil Kuhn, 1, no ,·oaehcd the playPrs from hi, So!.j.th al team m its fir~t ~eason last , (Continued on Pa e B-2, Col. S)

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1''orward Chuck Thomeczk leads the University of San Diego !iCOling race with 207 pOints. He'll be in the lineup tonight when the Pioneers face MCRD.

THE __•L~ USD s To Chapman Rally, 6 -61 By ,JOJIH ·y McDO ALO Lanky center Bob Hamblin scored 2.1 points la t night to lead Chapman College of Los Angele to a c e-from-be- hind 62-61 basketball victory: over University or San Diego in the MissLOn Bay High gym. Chapman trailed most of the way, but managed to forge ahead in the late s ages when the Pioneers missed many fi<'ld goal attempts. Another fa or was the Pioneers Inability to hit at he free throw line. They mis ed nine o! 14 shots Chapman went ahearl with a mlnute to go whrn Marv De er drove In for a layup shot a a 60 59 lead. Art Bia~ dum Cd in a layup moments later to j the game. Ken Le he hlt 20 points to pace the losers with Lee Ham- mon

Janu a ry 2, 1957

~" Pioneers Face·\ Pasadena Five University o! San Diego makes its next-to-last basketball appearance of the season at home tonight. The Pioneers meet strong Pasadena College at 8 at San Diego High. Pasadena drubbed the Pio- neers, 80-42, in the first meet-I ing. The Crusaders are led by Jim Bond and Eric Pyle. Bond has averaged 18 points per game. Ken Leslie is the leading Pioneer scorer with a 12-point average.

THE SAN DIEGO UNION a 18 i '.l'u.,s., Feb, 1'?. 1951 • ,AN DIEGO, CALIFORSIA USD Hopes To SQuare Cage Mark San Dimas Poly, The University of San Dlego basketball team hopes to even its win-loss record at 14 games each this•weekend. The Pioneers, who have 11. 12-14 season mark, will travel to Pomona Friday night to meet Cal Poly of San Dimas and return to St. Augustine gym Saturday night to play host to Cal Baptist of River- side. USD defeated both ~lubs last month, topping Cal Baptist, 81- 43, and Cal Poly, 62-41. The Pioneers will have three more games left on the sched- ule following these two: Cal Baptist of Covina, Fel>. 19 here; Laverne College, there, Feb. 21 and the Israeli Olympic team at Pomt Loma High gym Feb. 23. ' Ken Leslie, former Amateur Athletic Union All-American, has been on a scoring spree the last seven games and has pulled away from Chuck Tho. meczk in the individual scor- ing department. Leslie has averaged 21.9 points in his last seven con. tests and broke the school scor. ing mark with 33 against Pasa- dena College 1\\st Thursday. The former Naval Training Center star has connected on 36.6 per cent of his field goals and 1s S<'i;ond to Paul Reynolds who has a 36.7 per<'entage. USD sti!l hotels a points-av. erage advantage over the oppo- sition. 65.4 to 63. Individual scoring: L~.slle, rt 26 363·133 108-76 342 13 Tnomec.tk, f 26 308-118 145-93 289 11 ·f Ha.mmond, c-f 26 332-106 95-47 259 · Reynold C 26 1911-73 90-5B 20¼ 1 ~-g Kettrtck. • 24 104-JB 64-;2 118 4:u ~~~~.in~kl, I I~ l~t~: 1t5~ Mr 5.2 Cromwell, t 18 34--11 21-11 33 f·: Sanchez:, i 16 32-12 12-s 32 a·o •HeDd'kson, I 24 18'&-64 S6-38 166 6.D •Turt,ln, c 20 49+4 26-H • 2 2. t Tntals '!6 IUl-6:ll 696-138 1)00 65.t _:No lOni'rr on team~-~------' Baptists Next For University

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Pi~~~~!.s:..?..!:~? WHII'I'IER, Feb. 5 Whittier ollege pulled ahead in the last fo minutes tonight to oefeat the Univer~ity of San Diego basketball team, 71-62, in the victor's gym. Bob Bland paced the Poets with 20 points. Ken Leslie and Chuck Thomeczk canned 20 and 18, respectively, for the Pio- neers. The Pioneers took the lead for the first time after 12 min- utes at 21-19 and held the lead just before Intermission when Whittier nudged ahead, 33-32. The lead see-sawed in the ~econd half with the Pioneers enjo?'ing a five point lead early, holding onto a 55-52 advantage .with nine minutes left and at 60-59 with four left. However Bland canned a field goal fo;, 1 the Poets to make it 61-60 then Thomeczk and Lee Hammonctl; fouled out and that \l'as all for USO. 1 This was the 14th victory against live losses for Whittier while USD's record is 12-13. The Pioneers return home for a game with Pa adena Col- lege tomorrow night in the San I Diego High gym. j 1 USD (6Z) Wh!Hler Ill) '

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January 4, 1957

'USD Seeks Sixth age Win In Row I Forwards Lee Hammond' and Chuck Thomeczk may see lim- ited action tonight at Riverside l when the University of San Diego basketball team goes aft. vic- tory against California Baptist College. Hammond and Thomeczk ! have been alternating at the right forward spot. Freshman Larry Cromwell, a 6-5, 215- pounder, will fill in while Paul Reynolds will work on the oth- er- side. Big (6-91 Carl Hendrickson will be at center with Ke n Kettrick 15-7) and Hector Sanchez (5-9) at guards. Coach Fon Johnson said that Hammond and Thomeczk are nursing ankle injuries. "L e e hurt his on the Arizona road trip and Chuck turned his ankle in practice last Tuesday," the coach said. The P i o n e e rs apparently stand a good chance of contin- uing their streak tonight but may be hard-pressed tomor- l row night against tough Pas,J adena Nazarene College at, Pasadena. The Pasadenans are headed by Jim Bond. who was an alternate for the V.S. Olympic team. Johnson s e n t hi.s quintet through a light scrimmage agamst Na\ al 'l'l'aming C'enter yesterday to work out the "rough spot ," "We ha\e Dec. 22 and 1 sur_e the bo~.¥~i1.Q,._,: e i r shooting eyes B / er its sixth straight

-San Dtceo Union Staff Photo Guard Ken Leslie, leading scorer for the Univer- sity of San Diego basketball team, will be in the starting lineup tonight when the Pioneers meet Long ~each State in Mission Bay High gym at 8 o'clock. Leslie has scored 174 points, an average of 11.6. Pioneers Entertain- Long Beach Tonigh . By JOlfNNY McDONALD Coach Fon Johnson's University of San Diego ba~ketball team will attempt to reverse an earlier setback tonight when it entertains Long Beach State in Mission Bay High gym. 'rip, off is set for 8 o'clock. The Long Beac_h ~uintet, guards. Paul Reynolds w 11 J member of the Caltforma Col- spell Thoemeczk and Duane legiate Athletic Association, is Rudzinski will go in for Ket- small but has plenty of speed. trick as able alternates. Long BPach_ worked. a fast USD's big job will be to stop bi:eak effectively aga~nst San Baron, who is considered the Diego on Dec•. 4 to wm, 74 · 65 - best shot on the team and is The 4~ers will _b~ paced by difficult to guard. center-forward W1l11am Baron, . . . . who canned 31 points in the _Leslie i_s still pacing the last meeting between the two Pioneers 111 total points with clubs. Rounding out the start- 174 and game average with !1-6 fng lineup will be Donn Loe a_ contest. Hammond, third- (6-0) and Harvey Hollis (6-1) highest sr?rer, 1s _the top re- at forwards and Cad Virden hounder with 172 m 15 games (5-10) and John Mihaljcvich while Reynolds is next with (5-l0 1 ,o l at guards. 158 - . I The Pioneers' record has im- T!1: Sa_n D1~gans lead the op-I proved considerably since their ~ositton 111 pomts average w1th last home game Dec. 15. Thanks 63.8 to 60.3 and have a 34.;; to a six-game winning streak 1,ercentage on field goals and prior to a lopsided loss (80-42) 60.9 . on free throws. T e a m to Pasadena Nazarene c;. 0 J. scormg:. ) USD l. · t · G FU T TP Avr, ege, ,,as seven vie ones Le.lie. \ ...... . u ,1.ua g-38 174 1, and eight Io ses. I A~~in,tg~rt: .. :: /l lfl:tH..:~X 16 _Johnson j expe.r,'{e, (o op 'nl:}:;a~/gkoo!. o :.: l~ Hs.. i\ i1d 7 -; with Lee Ham , ct and Cht k :uctun '

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