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...price of a year at St. Mike's is as low as $1,200. "It costs me about as much to go here as it would to go to Fordham, commuting," says one boy from a New York City suburb. Admission standards are high. Americans must not only have top school grades, but must also take St. Mike's "13th year" of high school (more English, math, science, languages) before becoming full-fledged collegians. They are then so well prepared, says one American professor of English, that he gives freshmen the same Chaucer course that he used...
...Crimson's stay near the summit of the Ivy League might not even be terminated in their next game against Columbia Friday night. The Lions are, if possible, worse than either Harvard or Dartmouth. On December 13 they suffered an 81-50 pasting at the hands of Fordham, a team which needed four overtimes to defeat the Crimson in a holiday tournament at Evansville...
Although the quintet finished last in the tourney, Wilson said he felt they had "played their best basketball of the season so far." The Crimson bowed to powerhouse Evansville, the tournament champions, by a 63-55 margin, and then dropped a 52-47 cliffhanger to Fordham. Junior Len Strauss was Harvard's standout in the two games; he came off the bench to score 27 points, snare 12 rebounds, and earn himself a starting berth against Dartmouth...
Lombardi worked days as an insurance investigator, studied nights at Fordham Law ("because my Dad wanted it"), played weekend football for a minor-league pro team that called itself the Brooklyn Eagles. In 1939, he took his first coaching job - as an assistant football coach at tiny (600 students) St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, NJ. His HALFBACK HORNUNG...
...salary was $1,700 a year. Three years later. Lombardi was head football, basketball and baseball coach; his 1945 basketball team won the New Jersey parochial school championship, and his football teams won 36 games in a row. On the strength of that record. Lombardi bounced back to Fordham in 1947-hoping some day to be named head football coach. But he stayed only two years. Fordham football was already on the skids; in 1954 the school gave up the game...