In a couple of the earlier posts on this forum, we talked of the NCAA violations of the 1970s that, among other things, caused the Gophers' tournament...
... Oops. Yeah, thanks for catching that. That was my typo, not the newspaper's, which was the Minnesota Daily (not the Tribune, as I had stated in my post)....
... thought the ... Saunders ... know why ... This was reported by the Minneapolis Tribune in the March 1976 story about the Minnesota basketball team being...
I'm pretty sure Mulso and McCarron both started at the U. Did Stan Krebs too? Dunno. ... From: stewthornley [mailto:stew@...] Sent: Wednesday,...
Holst, Alan R
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Nov 10, 2004 4:52 pm
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... it's 1970, ... although I seem ... school and ... transferred out. ... enough to try ... brainstorming. ... It was 1970 that Hanson took over. Does...
Como Pontliana went to Colorado State where, according to a HS friend of mine who attended CSU in 1973-74, Como set the school record for fouls in a season or...
I sure can't think of any players from the 71 tournament (which I remember well, since it was the year I graduated from high school) receiving scholarships...
Holst, Alan R
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Nov 3, 2004 3:53 pm
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As I'm writing about the Gophers in the 1960s and 1970s, I'm using many of my notes from when I collaborated with Ray Christensen on his autobiography. I'm...
PS. Alan is right, Winfield was on the team from the beginning of the 1971-72 season. This is why we do historical RESEARCH, right Stew, rather than rely on...
Winfield was recruited out of the intramural league, but because he was a good basketball player, not because they were shorthanded. He was on the team the...
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Nov 2, 2004 9:29 pm
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Stew and Alan, Yes Brewer was from the Chicago area but I don't know any of the details. He was recruited by Bill Fitch, BTW, and was rumored to be unhappy and...
Chicago area. Mayfield? ... From: stewthornley [mailto:stew@...] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:46 PM To: mnbuckets@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Holst, Alan R
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Nov 2, 2004 8:52 pm
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Hey guys-- I'm out of town right now, so I don't have access to all my notes, but where was Jim Brewer from? Thanks. Stew (I'll be watching election results...
As assistant basketball coach and assistant AD Glen Reed was part of the braintrust that made the momentous decision for the Gopher basketball team to recruit...
This morning's Strib contains an obit for former gopher hoopster and asst. coach Glen Reed. Glen was also an asst. baseball coach and asst. A.D. Those of us...
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Stew, Yes, you had to be a conference champ to get into the NCAA tournament until 1975--and at first you had to be a champ or a runner-up, and they only...
Does anyone know the evolution of the NCAA tournament in terms of how many teams were allowed in the tournament each year. I'm curious about the number in...
My father was a professor at Hamline, but ever since he pitched for the college back in the late teens and early 20's he had been a big booster, and he...
Holst, Alan R
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Oct 22, 2004 6:35 pm
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Alan, You should join mnbuckets@yahoo. So was your dad an assistant to Joe Hutton? I have heard that Mikkelson didn't go to the U 1) because the U didn't ...
Moran was a Moorhead guard 1928-29-30, first player in tournament history to be all-tournament three times and leader of the first team to win back-to-back...
I agree that McHale, for his whole career, became the best native Minnesota basketball player but not by a wide margin over Vern Mikkelson, and considering...
... Sorry, Alan, the two best Mn HS boys ever were Jim McIntyre and Khalid El-Amin. The rest of the top 5 are Olberding, Tschimperle and Ray Moran (yes, ...
... ADVERTISEMENT [click here] ... Alan, let me think about these. But just for fun, I'll start you out with a couple decades I know something about. 1910s C-...
... Another basketball obit--did anybody see that Don "Swede" Carlson died? He played for Mpls. Edison's 1937 state champs who were considered to be the best...
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