Welcome to CENTAUR SEASONS: A ‘memory blog’ of the basketball beginnings of a half-good, half-bad, all-new college team. Once, I was a Centaur. I played basketball for Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales in Center Valley, Pa. I was on four of the school’s first seven teams, was MVP senior year and in 1974 graduated in the sixth class. My junior year I kept a diary: A History of the Events of the 1972-1973 Allentown College B-Ball Season, as Chronicled by, and With the Personal … [Read more...]
CENTAUR SEASONS: Some Allentown College and UCLA Connections — really; well, OK, sort of — and the Exclusive Interview with Coach John Wooden
With the "HISTORY OF THE EVENTS OF THE ALLENTOWN COLLEGE'S 1972-1973 B-BALL SEASON, AS CHRONICLED BY, AND WITH THE PERSONAL MEMOIRS AND OCCASSIONAL PHILOSOPHIZING OF THE AUTHOR, ONE STEPHEN J. McKEE" still on Christmas break (next game January 18) this seems an opportune moment to look back on where CENTAUR SEASONS has been, and where it might be going, with a couple of MidSeason Reports. MidSeason Report No. 1. This second MidSeason Report takes a long look at the college basketball era … [Read more...]