Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 4, 2020 17:13:02 GMT -5
....Catholic Memorial was coached by Ronnie Perry and anchored by a 6-8 center, Ron Teixeira. CM would win the Massachusetts state championship in the 1964-65 season, but the Knights were no match for Alcindor and Power in December of 1964. Alcindor scored 24 in a 61-38 victory.
"We were No. 3 in the US behind Power,'' recalled Dick Osso, a member of the 1964-65 Knights who roomed with Teixeira in Providence the night before the game. "Tex was going through all his moves before bed. When the game started, he faked Jabbar left and drove right and missed a bunny layup. Next time down, Big Lew blocked his shot coming down. Game over.
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CM went 29-1 that season, smashing Durfee, 62-45, in the state championship game. Teixeira, who scored 14 against Alcindor, accepted a scholarship to Holy Cross, where he played for Alcindor’s high school coach, Jack Donohue.
Donohue was a controlling coach who handled Alcindor's recruiting process. When Donohue accepted an offer to coach at Holy Cross for the start of the 1965-66 season, he asked Alcindor to visit HC to make it look like the Crusaders had a chance to land the superstar.
“He insisted I visit the campus in Massachusetts,'' Abdul-Jabbar recounted in his 1983 bestseller, “Giant Steps.” "I had no intention of attending the school … but he had some people to impress, so I put in an appearance.
"It was a pretty place, but there wasn’t a lot of … color … around. It developed that there was actually only a handful of black students in the whole school and Mr. Donohue had arranged for one of them to give me a Holy Cross sale pitch.
"I was introduced to my guide and as soon as we got out of Mr. Donohue’s earshot he made the good impression. ‘If you come here you’re crazy,’ he told me. ‘This is the worst place for you to go to school. You won’t have any fun at all. You’ll be isolated. Man, pick someplace else!' ’'
"We were No. 3 in the US behind Power,'' recalled Dick Osso, a member of the 1964-65 Knights who roomed with Teixeira in Providence the night before the game. "Tex was going through all his moves before bed. When the game started, he faked Jabbar left and drove right and missed a bunny layup. Next time down, Big Lew blocked his shot coming down. Game over.
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CM went 29-1 that season, smashing Durfee, 62-45, in the state championship game. Teixeira, who scored 14 against Alcindor, accepted a scholarship to Holy Cross, where he played for Alcindor’s high school coach, Jack Donohue.
Donohue was a controlling coach who handled Alcindor's recruiting process. When Donohue accepted an offer to coach at Holy Cross for the start of the 1965-66 season, he asked Alcindor to visit HC to make it look like the Crusaders had a chance to land the superstar.
“He insisted I visit the campus in Massachusetts,'' Abdul-Jabbar recounted in his 1983 bestseller, “Giant Steps.” "I had no intention of attending the school … but he had some people to impress, so I put in an appearance.
"It was a pretty place, but there wasn’t a lot of … color … around. It developed that there was actually only a handful of black students in the whole school and Mr. Donohue had arranged for one of them to give me a Holy Cross sale pitch.
"I was introduced to my guide and as soon as we got out of Mr. Donohue’s earshot he made the good impression. ‘If you come here you’re crazy,’ he told me. ‘This is the worst place for you to go to school. You won’t have any fun at all. You’ll be isolated. Man, pick someplace else!' ’'
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