Just watched the Nova parade in Philly

[NovaPSULuvr]

So many memories of those.

Think this was the holiday "tournament" that used to be there for a few years:

St. Josephs with Goukas, Cliff Anderson (edison), Duff, Ford etc. beat Bowling Green with Nate Thurmond and Howie Komives (sp). Think Jim Boyle hit a foul line shot to win the game
and
other game Villanova beat wichita state with (now can't remember their great player-- Dave Stallworth?.)
Wonderful memories

Correct me if I am wrong, but what I think I remember is that the fans of the home team in the first game, that hung around, would cheer for the home team in the second game. Right or wrong? I am talking re 60s into the 70s.

Just wish the politics of the current day would allow PSU to play annual game like the MSU game a couple years ago--sold out and my bet could have gotten mid-teens for that game.

A bit before my time I am afraid - but would not surprise me (re: home team support).
I had the pleasure of streamers on the 1st hoop, the heat (always feels like its mid-80's and about to rain), and the many personalities / regulars.
I am sure Cameron Indoor is special, as is Hinkle Fieldhouse, and a few others. None of them have the Big 5!

 

[artsandletters]

So many memories of those.

Think this was the holiday "tournament" that used to be there for a few years:

St. Josephs with Goukas, Cliff Anderson (edison), Duff, Ford etc. beat Bowling Green with Nate Thurmond and Howie Komives (sp). Think Jim Boyle hit a foul line shot to win the game
and
other game Villanova beat wichita state with (now can't remember their great player-- Dave Stallworth?.)
Wonderful memories

Correct me if I am wrong, but what I think I remember is that the fans of the home team in the first game, that hung around, would cheer for the home team in the second game. Right or wrong? I am talking re 60s into the 70s.

Just wish the politics of the current day would allow PSU to play annual game like the MSU game a couple years ago--sold out and my bet could have gotten mid-teens for that game.

Guokas was probably St. Joe’s Prep. He was my idol. Matt Sr. was the Phillies game announcer (lineups, who’s at bat etc.) for a long time.

Wasn’t Anderson nicknamed Pogo Stick? Or was that someone else. Cliff could fly.

 

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From not so long ago....must have had to get special permission because I thought NCAA stopped this in the 1980s.

Hate it when the NCAA ruins traditions like that. It was part of the spectacle of Philly basketball and especially the Palestra that should have been preserved.

 

[Media Fan]

Guokas was probably St. Joe’s Prep. He was my idol. Matt Sr. was the Phillies game announcer (lineups, who’s at bat etc.) for a long time.

Wasn’t Anderson nicknamed Pogo Stick? Or was that someone else. Cliff could fly.

As I remember, Goukas and Duff were both The Prep, Ford was West Catholic. And The 5th is on the tip of my tongue but can’t remember. All those local kids.
This Villanova team has 4 of the 8 that played from this area. That I believe is more than any other local team.Enough of the old baloney, that they don’t have local kids. Would imagine they get what they want going fwd from here. Having said that,this falls clas has 3 top 50, none from here. Jay Wright, to state the obvious, unrea.

 

[Media Fan]

IMO, Larry Cannon is an all time top five Big 5 player. I’d only include players from prior to 1980. I’m not sure when the real Big 5 changed but I think it was about then.

Larry Cannon - LaSalle
Ken Durrett - LaSalle
Howard Porter - Villanova
Billy Melchionni - Villanova
Guy Rodgers - Temple

The best player of the above five, by position, was probably Guy Rodgers.

Paul Arizin of Villanova and Tom Gola of LaSalle played before the Big 5 was formed in 1955. Both are Hall of Famers.

I believe Villanova found Paul Arizin on the Narberth playground. He has come back from the war, was a student, and the coaches did not know it till they saw him there.
First game I saw was LaSalle with the great Tom Gola and Alonzo Lewis, another terrific player, against Princeton. So many wonderful memories.

 

[LionJim]

Streamers.

Yes.

 

[LionJim]

Ken Durrett poured in 45 on that very same Jim McDaniels.

I was at that game, with my dad. (I was twelve at the time.) WKU was #5 at the time. My dad and I spoke of that game the day before his death, in 2006. He said Durrett's game was the greatest he'd ever seen.

 

[LionJim]

I was at that game, with my dad. (I was twelve at the time.) WKU was #5 at the time. My dad and I spoke of that game the day before his death, in 2006. He said Durrett's game was the greatest he'd ever seen.

So, as far as I'm concerned, Kenny Durrett was the greatest player in Big Five history.

 

[psuro]

Found this old footage of the 1971 Final Four with Nova Weatern Kentucky UCLA snd Kansas.

I think this was the first Final Four in a dome. In the Astrodome

 

[mn78psu83]

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Found this old footage of the 1971 Final Four with Nova Weatern Kentucky UCLA snd Kansas.

I think this was the first Final Four in a dome. In the Astrodome

Great stuff. Thanks.

 

[delcoLion]

I believe Villanova found Paul Arizin on the Narberth playground. He has come back from the war, was a student, and the coaches did not know it till they saw him there.
First game I saw was LaSalle with the great Tom Gola and Alonzo Lewis, another terrific player, against Princeton. So many wonderful memories.

Late to the discussion, regarding Tom Gola.
Gola won championships at every level in which he competed. Grade school CYO, Catholic league and City Title in HS, NCAA champ and NIT champ at LaSalle when the NIT was the more prestigious event. He was on the all-Service team while in the military and won an NBA title with the Phila. Warriors. He is the only player, IIRC, who played on an NCAA, NIT, and NBA championship teams.
What a record, a Hall of Fame player and probably the greatest player in Big 5 history.
I gave LionJim a Like on his Ken Durrett post. I didn’t see Tom Gola in college, I did see Durrett. Both great players, I’d hate to have to live on the difference.

 

[mrtailgate]

So, as far as I'm concerned, Kenny Durrett was the greatest player in Big Five history.

I have two games taped from Comcast Classics. The crazy Wrigley game between the Phils Cubs and the Nova Lasalle showdown when 54 and 33 were both sophomores. I watch them frequently.

 

[LionJim]

I have two games taped from Comcast Classics. The crazy Wrigley game between the Phils Cubs and the Nova Lasalle showdown when 54 and 33 were both sophomores. I watch them frequently.

Damn. I lived on Channel 17 in those days. I don't know what my life would have been like in those days without the Big 5.

I was a huge Pennsylvania fan in those days, loved the Quakers. My favorite player was Corky Calhoun. Anyway, long story short, Calhoun lives in Olney and his youngest and my youngest were classmates at Sherwood HS. I've never met him, but one of these days I'm going to run into him (I missed an opportunity once and regretted not taking advantage of it) and I'm going to say to him, "I saw you play a million times when you were at Penn. You and Pete Maravich, you were my favorite players ever." (I may have to add that I'm not a stalker and won't be asking for his autograph; I definitely won't tell him that I know where he lives.) Well, I'll keep y'all posted.

EDIT: Adrian Dantley goes to my gym and I see him once or twice a week, pleasant guy, lifts heavy, spots for me when I ask. He's no Corky Calhoun.

 

[Nitwit]

Remember Bill Mlkvy - the Owl without a vowel?

Or one time I can’t remember who Villanova was playing but they had a guard “Chubby” Cox. The fans from the opposing team rolled out a banner sign that said Villanova cheerleaders love Chubby Cox. It only took about a second of tv time for the camera to switch off that image.

 

[psuro]

Remember Bill Mlkvy - the Owl without a vowel?

Or one time I can’t remember who Villanova was playing but they had a guard “Chubby” Cox. The fans from the opposing team rolled out a banner sign that said Villanova cheerleaders love Chubby Cox. It only took about a second of tv time for the camera to switch off that image.

That sounds like something Temple would do.

 

[artsandletters]

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Found this old footage of the 1971 Final Four with Nova Weatern Kentucky UCLA snd Kansas.

I think this was the first Final Four in a dome. In the Astrodome

Laughing at myself. The crucial Porter jumper from the corner against WKU wasn’t from nearly as far out as I recalled.

 

[artsandletters]

Remember Bill Mlkvy - the Owl without a vowel?

Or one time I can’t remember who Villanova was playing but they had a guard “Chubby” Cox. The fans from the opposing team rolled out a banner sign that said Villanova cheerleaders love Chubby Cox. It only took about a second of tv time for the camera to switch off that image.

Chubby was a Roxborough grad that Rollie recruited. He ended up transferring to U of San Francisco, another Catholic college and the college attended by Bill Russell and KC Jones (no idea if they graduated).

 

[artsandletters]

Damn. I lived on Channel 17 in those days. I don't know what my life would have been like in those days without the Big 5.

I was a huge Pennsylvania fan in those days, loved the Quakers. My favorite player was Corky Calhoun. Anyway, long story short, Calhoun lives in Olney and his youngest and my youngest were classmates at Sherwood HS. I've never met him, but one of these days I'm going to run into him (I missed an opportunity once and regretted not taking advantage of it) and I'm going to say to him, "I saw you play a million times when you were at Penn. You and Pete Maravich, you were my favorite players ever." (I may have to add that I'm not a stalker and won't be asking for his autograph; I definitely won't tell him that I know where he lives.) Well, I'll keep y'all posted.

EDIT: Adrian Dantley goes to my gym and I see him once or twice a week, pleasant guy, lifts heavy, spots for me when I ask. He's no Corky Calhoun.

Come on Jim. Dantley was better than Corky. Your heart is doing your thinking for you. We all experience that.

 

[mn78psu83]

Laughing at myself. The crucial Porter jumper from the corner against WKU wasn’t from nearly as far out as I recalled.

His vintage baseline turnaround jumper though. I love watching him drop in the layup to be reminded that it was still the no dunk era.

 

[artsandletters]

Late to the discussion, regarding Tom Gola.
Gola won championships at every level in which he competed. Grade school CYO, Catholic league and City Title in HS, NCAA champ and NIT champ at LaSalle when the NIT was the more prestigious event. He was on the all-Service team while in the military and won an NBA title with the Phila. Warriors. He is the only player, IIRC, who played on an NCAA, NIT, and NBA championship teams.
What a record, a Hall of Fame player and probably the greatest player in Big 5 history.
I gave LionJim a Like on his Ken Durrett post. I didn’t see Tom Gola in college, I did see Durrett. Both great players, I’d hate to have to live on the difference.

A technicality but Tom Gola was class of 1954. The Big 5 was formed in 1955. I never saw him play either but he was definitely a great one. The two Philly players that Sonny Hill gushes over are Gola and Guy Rodgers.

I saw Arizin play for the Camden Bullets many times in the old EBL. Paul had asthma and played with a white hankie tucked in his shorts.

 

[artsandletters]

His vintage baseline turnaround jumper though. I love watching him drop in the layup to be reminded that it was still the no dunk era.

Porter was a top of the backboard leaper(). The story a Villanova was that he could grab a quarter off of it. Might be true Porter really got up.

 

[psuro]

Porter was a top of the backboard leaper(). The story a Villanova was that he could grab a quarter off of it. Might be true Porter really got up.

He could grab a quarter and leave 19 cents change.

 

[delcoLion]

Damn. I lived on Channel 17 in those days. I don't know what my life would have been like in those days without the Big 5.

I was a huge Pennsylvania fan in those days, loved the Quakers. My favorite player was Corky Calhoun. Anyway, long story short, Calhoun lives in Olney and his youngest and my youngest were classmates at Sherwood HS. I've never met him, but one of these days I'm going to run into him (I missed an opportunity once and regretted not taking advantage of it) and I'm going to say to him, "I saw you play a million times when you were at Penn. You and Pete Maravich, you were my favorite players ever." (I may have to add that I'm not a stalker and won't be asking for his autograph; I definitely won't tell him that I know where he lives.) Well, I'll keep y'all posted.

EDIT: Adrian Dantley goes to my gym and I see him once or twice a week, pleasant guy, lifts heavy, spots for me when I ask. He's no Corky Calhoun.

Living in So. Philly, we could walk up 30th St, go over the bridge and up to the Palestra. I was a big Penn fan, too, but Bobby Morse was my favorite.

 

[LionJim]

Living in So. Philly, we could walk up 30th St, go over the bridge and up to the Palestra. I was a big Penn fan, too, but Bobby Morse was my favorite.

My dad worked at General Electric on Chestnut St. We'd park in their lot and walk five minutes to the Palestra. Special times.

 

[psuro]

Who was on the 79 Quaker team that went to the Final Four?

 

[LionJim]

Who was on the 79 Quaker team that went to the Final Four?

Tony Price was their best player. Good team, beat UNC in the Elite Eight.

 

[mrtailgate]

Damn. I lived on Channel 17 in those days. I don't know what my life would have been like in those days without the Big 5.

I was a huge Pennsylvania fan in those days, loved the Quakers. My favorite player was Corky Calhoun. Anyway, long story short, Calhoun lives in Olney and his youngest and my youngest were classmates at Sherwood HS. I've never met him, but one of these days I'm going to run into him (I missed an opportunity once and regretted not taking advantage of it) and I'm going to say to him, "I saw you play a million times when you were at Penn. You and Pete Maravich, you were my favorite players ever." (I may have to add that I'm not a stalker and won't be asking for his autograph; I definitely won't tell him that I know where he lives.) Well, I'll keep y'all posted.

EDIT: Adrian Dantley goes to my gym and I see him once or twice a week, pleasant guy, lifts heavy, spots for me when I ask. He's no Corky Calhoun.

Corky was a great all around player. Another player who I liked at Penn from that era was Phil Hankinson. A fine offensive player but not nearly the all around player Corky was. Check out SEC Storied that is being shown currently, it’s on the Pistol. It’s a shame they didn’t have the same coverage that they have today. You saw Murphy a lot but seldom saw Maravich. That’s a shame. Now, we would have seen every game of his on TV. But that enhanced the mystique for sure.

Murphy still holds the single game scoring mark at the Palestra I believe. They used to have the Big 5 play an all star team at the Palestra. I saw Doug Collins play and for visitors saw the famous Providence team play there with Bad News.

Here is a not known fact. Well known seamhead Jim Salisbury would like to write a book and it’s not on baseball surprisingly. He told me once his dream project would be to write a book on that Providence team.

 

[LionJim]

Murphy's record is 52 points.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

Corky was a great all around player. Another player who I liked at Penn from that era was Phil Hankinson. A fine offensive player but not nearly the all around player Corky was. Check out SEC Storied that is being shown currently, it’s on the Pistol. It’s a shame they didn’t have the same coverage that they have today. You saw Murphy a lot but seldom saw Maravich. That’s a shame. Now, we would have seen every game of his on TV. But that enhanced the mystique for sure.

Murphy still holds the single game scoring mark at the Palestra I believe. They used to have the Big 5 play an all star team at the Palestra. I saw Doug Collins play and for visitors saw the famous Providence team play there with Bad News.

Here is a not known fact. Well known seamhead Jim Salisbury would like to write a book and it’s not on baseball surprisingly. He told me once his dream project would be to write a book on that Providence team.

Barnes, Stacom, Ernie D., coach was the great Dave Gavitt. There is plenty there for a book.