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Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?
 
Stanford likes to keep tabs on the Fresno area, so if he's a good student they'll be involved.
 
[quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.
 
[quote="Class of 72" post=308112][quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.[/quote]
Great Columbia team with Hayward Dotson & 7 footer Dave Newmark to complement the super Jim Mc. Saw Lions beat the Johnnies at MSG that season.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=308114][quote="Class of 72" post=308112][quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.[/quote]
Great Columbia team with Hayward Dotson & 7 footer Dave Newmark to complement the super Jim Mc. Saw Lions beat the Johnnies at MSG that season.[/quote]

Heyward and Jimmy Mac were unstoppable. It's such a small world because one of my doctors went to Columbia with Dave and we always reminisce about the 60's. He and Dave not only participated in Hillel related activities together but according to him he and Dave participated in the Columbia University protests of 1968.
 
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[quote="Paultzman" post=308114][quote="Class of 72" post=308112][quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.[/quote]
Great Columbia team with Hayward Dotson & 7 footer Dave Newmark to complement the super Jim Mc. Saw Lions beat the Johnnies at MSG that season.[/quote]
Ironically, yesterday I was trying to explain to my new PCP -- a Columbia alum in about his late-30s, early 40s -- that the Lions were once a basketball power. He'd never knew that, let alone had ever heard of Jim McMillan, Hayward Dotson, or Shorty Newmark. Yet for me -- and most of our older posters, I'm guessing -- those teams are still vivid in our memories ... especially the special one-two punch of McMillan and Dotson.
 
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[quote="redken" post=308127][quote="Paultzman" post=308114][quote="Class of 72" post=308112][quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.[/quote]
Great Columbia team with Hayward Dotson & 7 footer Dave Newmark to complement the super Jim Mc. Saw Lions beat the Johnnies at MSG that season.[/quote]
Ironically, yesterday I was trying to explain to my new PCP -- a Columbia alum in about his late-30s, early 40s -- that the Lions were once a basketball power. He'd never knew that, let alone had ever heard of Jim McMillan, Hayward Dotson, or Shorty Newmark. Yet for me -- and most of our older posters, I'm guessing -- those teams are still vivid in our memories ... especially the special one-two punch of McMillan and Dotson.[/quote]

It was the golden age NY area college basketball. NYU, Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, St, John's etc. Do you remember the playoff game for the Ivy League between Columbia and a great Princeton team played in a sold out Alumni Hall at St. John's? I used to listen to the Columbia games on WKCR and I think the play by play student announcer was Jim Miller. Our games were broadcast on campus only! Depressing when one thinks that was 50 years ago.
 
i saw many lions games with those 3.
if you breathed heavy near mcm the refs called a foul on you. he was protected and a great player.
never saw a college player steal the ball as many times as Dotson did..
 
[quote="Class of 72" post=308137][quote="redken" post=308127][quote="Paultzman" post=308114][quote="Class of 72" post=308112][quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.[/quote]
Great Columbia team with Hayward Dotson & 7 footer Dave Newmark to complement the super Jim Mc. Saw Lions beat the Johnnies at MSG that season.[/quote]
Ironically, yesterday I was trying to explain to my new PCP -- a Columbia alum in about his late-30s, early 40s -- that the Lions were once a basketball power. He'd never knew that, let alone had ever heard of Jim McMillan, Hayward Dotson, or Shorty Newmark. Yet for me -- and most of our older posters, I'm guessing -- those teams are still vivid in our memories ... especially the special one-two punch of McMillan and Dotson.[/quote]

It was the golden age NY area college basketball. NYU, Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, St, John's etc. Do you remember the playoff game for the Ivy League between Columbia and a great Princeton team played in a sold out Alumni Hall at St. John's? I used to listen to the Columbia games on WKCR and I think the play by play student announcer was Jim Miller. Our games were broadcast on campus only! Depressing when one thinks that was 50 years ago.[/quote]

While this is before my time, my brother went to Columbia so I have a soft spot for the school. I recall listening to WKCR once or twice. Was happy to see them win on Sunday against Iona.
 
[quote="Class of 72" post=308137][quote="redken" post=308127][quote="Paultzman" post=308114][quote="Class of 72" post=308112][quote="Paul Massell" post=308095]Fresno is Mully's old neighborhood the same way Providence R.I. is. BTW who is your profile pic?[/quote]

Kid also lived in Oakland before Fresno. Pic is me and my best friend growing up. He went on to play at Thomas Jefferson which is Slick's alma mater but never made varsity. We used to walk to Jeff to watch a neighborhood legend Jimmy Mac (Jim McMillian) who was a couple of years older than us. Jim was one of the smartest athletes ever to play at Jeff. He played at Columbia where he dominated local college basketball. I was not Columbia material in my youth but the Lions were my favorite team while he was there after St. John's of course. He passed away a couple of years ago.[/quote]
Great Columbia team with Hayward Dotson & 7 footer Dave Newmark to complement the super Jim Mc. Saw Lions beat the Johnnies at MSG that season.[/quote]
Ironically, yesterday I was trying to explain to my new PCP -- a Columbia alum in about his late-30s, early 40s -- that the Lions were once a basketball power. He'd never knew that, let alone had ever heard of Jim McMillan, Hayward Dotson, or Shorty Newmark. Yet for me -- and most of our older posters, I'm guessing -- those teams are still vivid in our memories ... especially the special one-two punch of McMillan and Dotson.[/quote]

It was the golden age NY area college basketball. NYU, Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, St, John's etc. Do you remember the playoff game for the Ivy League between Columbia and a great Princeton team played in a sold out Alumni Hall at St. John's? I used to listen to the Columbia games on WKCR and I think the play by play student announcer was Jim Miller. Our games were broadcast on campus only! Depressing when one thinks that was 50 years ago.[/quote]

You left out my alma mater with Bobby Knight running rough-shod over the lives of Cadets Krzyzewski, Mike Gyovai, Jim Oxley who became an MD, Tom and Max Miller, Doug Clevenger...we beat a solid St. Johns at Alumni Hall - I was wearing cadet grays- and - Army had a NCAA bid and #1 defensive team in the country...in 1968 Knight turned down the NCAA bid and appeared in the NITs - wow!

Jim McMillan, Columbia U. and led that team to a 63-14 record and a 6th ranking in 1967-68 - died 2016 rip

GO Storm!
 
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the best player of that army era was shutsky(?).
saw Fordham play a box & one on him.
coach lou once said about him - give shutsky a platoon & we win in Vietnam.
 
[quote="section10" post=308172]the best player of that army era was shutsky(?).
saw Fordham play a box & one on him.
coach lou once said about him - give shutsky a platoon & we win in Vietnam.[/quote]
Mike Silliman was the star in that Army era & could have played anywhere in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Silliman
 
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On the topic of Columbia, they beat Iona (who has had more dance tickets in the past 6 years than we've had in 25). Our fans would have the torches and pitchforks out. Iona often gets off to slow starts but this could be a weaker team. Some of you may know if they are injury plagued or something right now.

Our own Bill Schaeffer's pro career was directly affected by Jim McMillian. Schaeffer was drafted by both the NBA Lakers and NBA Nets. Billy looked at the LAkers roster and said, "why did they draft me? They have a guy very similar to me that I would sit behind (Jimmy Mac)." So he chose the Nets and signed with them. Two days later the Laker trade Macmillian (sp?) to Cleveland, and Schaeffer as he tells the story says to his wife "Aha.. That's why." HE closes it by saying story of my life, day late of dollar short.
 
1965-1966 was the first year my Dad started taking me to games at Alumni Hall. I remember Mike Silliman very well. Excellent player. I think we might have beat that Army team that year.
 
sju won 53 to 51.
Silliman a senior. schutsky a soph.
that one year they played together, schutsky had more points & rebounds than Silliman.
minor piece of info, schutsky played 12 more games than Silliman that year.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=308173][quote="section10" post=308172]the best player of that army era was shutsky(?).
saw Fordham play a box & one on him.
coach lou once said about him - give shutsky a platoon & we win in Vietnam.[/quote]
Mike Silliman was the star in that Army era & could have played anywhere in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Silliman[/quote]
Sillman is the only West Point player that I really remember. He was one helluva player.
 
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