Word: iona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detour via the business world resulted in a 38-year stop-out for me. Iona College's warmth and its programs for those coming in from the cold have enabled me to graduate two weeks after my daughter received her second degree...
...forward to tangling with ninth-ranked Holy Cross, spearheaded by soph Ronnie Perry. Perry was the most heavily recruited schoolboy from the Boston area three years ago along with Harvard transfer Joe Beaulieu. Coach George Blaney's Crusaders will face their first real test when they latch up with Iona College in their fourth game of the season...
...Iona is one of the smallest schools in Division One but also one of the best in the Northeast. Richie Guerin was the last nationally acclaimed player at the New Rochelle school but this year coach Jimmy Valvano landed 6-ft., 9-in. Jeff Ruland, who was perhaps the most sought after high school big man in the nation...
...playgrounds and community programs where they learned the fundamentals, and it shows in the current caliber of metropolitan teams. Brooklynite Ricky Free is Columbia's leading scorer while unsung Steve Grant and high-scoring Ricky Marsh led Manhattan over Penn in the Holiday Festival. Glenn Vickers is playing for Iona; Reggie Carter and Bernard Rencher have transferred to St. John's, while Bernard Tomlin and John Irving have switched over to Hofstra...
Each team in the New Jersey-New York Seven conference of Fordham, Manhattan, Rutgers, St. John's, Seton Hall, Columbia, and LIU seems stronger than the next. The picture wouldn't be complete unless one adds Hofstra, Iona, and St. Francis to the list...