… AS CHRONICLED BY, AND WITH THE PERSONAL MEMOIRS + OCCASSIONAL PHILOSOPHIZING OF THE AUTHOR, ONE STEPHEN J. McKEE”
This Centaur Seasons post was originally scribbled on December 12, 1972 at 2 p.m.
PREVIOUS GAME: Centaurs 73, EASTERN 75, six days ago
NEXT GAME: Spring Garden College, tomorrow
CENTAUR SEASON: 2-1
Tomorrow, Spring Garden. We can beat them.
My ankle status is questionable. I think I can go. I’ve been down at Billera every day since I sprained it twice in the Eastern game last week, working with Coach Compardo, our one-man athletic director/department/physical therapist. Heat packs, massage, running under his watchful eye. Today he had me do 2½ miles. My ankle felt good, real good. Only turning the corners hurt. And just a little. Coach Saboda said that he wants everybody on defense all over the court. So, I better be able to go.
(“We Are Achieving” continues below)
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WELCOME TO CENTAUR SEASONS. “We Are Achieving” here on HoopsU.Com appears also on CENTAUR SEASONS, a “memory blog” of the half-good, half-bad, all-new Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales Centaurs in Center Valley, Pennsylvana. Forty years ago Steve kept a diary of his junior-year season. A blog before its time then, “A History of the Events …” is now an e-diary at CENTAUR SEASONS and here on HoopsU.com.
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We are ALL hoping the fans come back out again for tomorrow’s game after we “made it happen” at last week’s Eastern game when the fans cheered us off the court after we got beat by two.
We deserve their loyal support. But most of the students here are from Philly. Though not me, I’m from York, out in southcentral Pennsylvania. From what I can gather, they’re all steeped (naturally) in the Philly Basket-Ball tradition. To them it seems that Basket-Ball is Basket-Ball only if it’s the Philly Big 5 Basket-Ball, or Philly Catholic League Basket-Ball in the Palestra. I don’t know. I didn’t grow up with all that.
[FINDING THE CENTAUR IN THE BIG COLLEGE BASKETBALL PICTURE, PART 1]
Even tonight, one of the guys on the team said, “Big game tomorrow … Penn-St. Joe’s.” I said, “What about Allentown-Spring Garden?”
[FINDING THE CENTAUR IN THE BIG COLLEGE BASKETBALL PICTURE, PART 2]
People around here don’t seem willing to accept the fact that there are different levels of excellence. I believe that Allentown is on the threshold of achieving excellence on its own level. The way I see it, we are on the fourth level of excellence: We play Philadelphia Pharmacy, Pharmacy plays Philadelphia Textile, Textile plays Villanova.
[WHEN THE CENTAURS ACHIEVED AGAINST A PHILLY TEAM.]
Can’t the people of Allentown College of S. Francis de Sales accept the fact that although we’re on the fourth level, we ARE achieving, we are working hard AT achieving? There is worth in that attempt. We have our own rivalries. It’s the same degree of worth that Villanova achieves on their level. That’s the way it is. I wish the fans could see that, too.
We will beat Spring Garden tomorrow by doing what we do best, every one of us. We must each play our own game together.
(That last sentence made absolutely no sense tonight. We’ll see if it makes sense tomorrow.)
PREVIOUS GAME: Centaurs 73, Eastern Baptist 75
NEXT GAME: Spring Garden College, tomorrow
1972-73 CENTAUR SEASON Schedule and Results:
12/1 — at Lehigh CCC — W/81-71 — 1-0
12-4 — at Northampton CCC — W/87-50 — 2-0
12-6 — EASTERN BAPTIST — L/73-75 — 2-1
12-12 — SPRING GARDEN
12-16 — PHILLY BIBLE
1-18 — at Baptist Bible
1-19 — WILMINGTON
1-25 — at Philly Pharmacy
1-30 — at Spring Garden
2-3 — at Messiah College
2-6 — at Wilmington
2-13 — RUTGERS, S. JERSEY
2-16 — LEHIGH CCC
2-20 — MESSIAH
2-22 — NORTHAMPTON CCC
2-24 — PHILLY PHARMACY
2-27 — BAPTIST BIBLE
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