Word: lapchick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacious manger by the name of Madison Square Garden on the night of November 24, 1978 and the midwife at courtside was a personable young coach by the name of P.J. Carlesimo. On that night the tiny school in Staten Island defeated nationally ranked Alabama in the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament by a score...
...backcourt wizard, who was just named the top senior college basketball player in the country, was not even invited to participate. "I didn't hear anything about the Hall of Fame game," DiGregario said yesterday after leaving the Hall of Fame luncheon in Springfield where he received the Joe Lapchick trophy as the nation's top senior basketball player...
Died. Joe Lapchick, 70, basketball great, both as a player and a coach; of a heart attack; in Monticello, N.Y. Tall for his time at 6 ft. 5 in., Lapchick started with the Original Celtics during the 1920s, helped them to so many lopsided victories that the American Basketball League finally ordered them to disband. But it was as a coach that he contributed most to the game. Kind, almost fatherly with his players -and a nervous wreck when he watched them in action-Lapchick brought New York's St. John's University to national prominence...