CENTAUR SEASONS: "We Got Beat by 36" — Entry #21 from "A history of the events of the Allentown College’s 1972-1973 B-ball season …

… AS CHRONICLED BY, AND WITH THE PERSONAL MEMOIRS + OCCASSIONAL PHILOSOPHIZING OF THE AUTHOR, ONE STEPHEN J. McKEE”

This CENTAUR SEASONS post was written on February 7, 1973.

PREVIOUS GAME: Centaurs 52, Wilmington College 88, last night

NEXT GAME: Rutgers, South Jersey, home, in seven days

CENTAUR SEASON: 2-9

We played Wilmington College last night.

We got beat by 36.

This was the last of our four away games. I remember saying we needed to split these four. So much for that.

(“We Got Beat by 36” continues below)

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WELCOME TO CENTAUR SEASONS. “We Got Beat by 36” 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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I started – my 10-point, 11-‘bound performance against Messiah counting for something after all! — and … felt immediately tired and exhausted. I shot 0-5, only had six rebounds, and that is being kind.

The standouts of the game were Chris Cashman and Tom Shirley.

At halftime Shirl, who played about eight minutes of the first half, was beside himself he was so psyched. “Let’s GO!” — “We can beat these guys!” – “Come ON!” Glad Tommy played well.

Cash played the way he knows how. Good moves, good fakes, good shots, good ‘bounds. His best game of the year, easy. After the year he’s had, great to see Christopher back. He ended up with 12 points, and, true to form, he was the last one to leave the locker room by a long shot.

Tonight, at Howard Johnson’s for the postgame meal with our $2 meal money on the way back to campus, as we contemplated our brilliant 2-9 season, Bobby Stormes, Bob Hoeffner, Joey Thompson, Dave Glielmi, P.J. Brennan, Cash, Tom Shirley and myself decided to take it to our respective homes for the upcoming weekend. I mean, how’d we get here? Our next game, against Rutgers of South Jersey, not being until next week.

Good riddance, I say.

[[TODAY , IN 2013, CENTAUR SEASONS IS FEATURED IN THIS INTERVIEW SPONSORED BY MY WEBSITE DESIGNER, BEMIS PROMOTIONS.]]

PREVIOUS GAME: Centaurs 52, Wilmington College 88, yesterday

NEXT GAME: Rutgers, South Jersey, home, in seven days

1972-73 CENTAUR SEASON Schedule and Results:

12-1-72 — 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 — L/54-66 — 2-2

12-16 — PHILLY BIBLE — L/72-79 — 2-3

1-18-73 — at Baptist Bible — L/82-84 — 2-4

1-19 — WILMINGTON — L/56-71 — 2-5

1-25 — at Philly Pharmacy — L/56-71 — 2-6

1-30 — at Spring Garden — L/64-69 — 2-7

2-3 — at Messiah College — L/47-76 — 2-8

2-6 — at Wilmington — L/52/88 — 2-9

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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Steve McKee is the author of CENTAUR SEASONS, a memory blog about his basketball-playing days at Allentown (Pa.) College of St. Francis de Sales in the early 1970s (a good excuse for using his college yearbook picture -- though there's NO excuse for that mustache and hair!).

CENTAUR SEASONS can also be found at www.centaurseasons.com. The centerpiece will be the posting in "real time" of the diary that Steve kept of his 1972-1973 junior-year season, beginning on November 30. Prior to that (and after), Steve will be posting regularly about his freshman, sophomore and senior seasons, as well as about what it was like to be there at the beginning to help get a struggling college basketball program off the ground.

Steve was the original writer of The Wall Street Journal's popular sports blog, "The Daily Fix" in 2001-2002, and was even dubbed "The Unwitting Father of the Sports Blog" by Gelf Magazine, the online publication of the "Varsity Letters Reading Series. Steve was the Journal's sports editor for its original Weekend sport section and was involved in all of the Journal's Olympics coverage, Winter and Summer, from 1996 through 2008.

He is the author of three books, most recently "My Father's Heart: A Son's Reckoning With the Legacy of Heart Disease," which he is adapting as a one-man show. For his first book, "The Call of the Game," Steve traveled the country in search of sports events -- including the famous N.C. State Wolfpack victory over "Phi Slamma Jamma" of the University of Houston. For his second book, COACH, among the 150+ coaches Steve interviewed are/were college basketball coaches John Wooden (UCLA), Pat Summitt (Tennessee), Frank Layden (Niagara), Bobby Cremins (Georgia Tech), P.J. Carlesimo (Seton Hall), Bill Guthridge (North Carolina), Abe Lemons (Texas), Stan Morrison (USC), Kathy Rush (Immaculata), Jim Satalin (Duquesne), Charlie Thomas (San Francisco State), Butch Van Bredda Koff (Princeton), Bill Whitmore (Vermont) and LaDonna Wilson (Austin Peay).

For more, you can click on www.steve-mckee.com, where you can find a TODAY show appearance and an NPR interview.