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RAMBLERS: AN EXCERPT
ig things are under way for Loyola athletics. On April 19, Loyola accepted an invitation to join the Missouri Valley Conference, the second-oldest college athletic conference in the nation.
Loyola is also pleased to announce the hiring of WNBA star Sheryl
Swoopes as the head coach of the women’s basketball team. As they say, good things come in threes: the 1963 men’s basketball
team will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on November 24 in Kansas City, Missouri. The 1963 Rambler squad is the first team ever to be enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
According to a new book on Loyola’s 1963 NCAA championship season, coach George Ireland was a persuasive recruiter. Guard Ron Miller describes how Ireland snatched him away from the University of Dayton:
“My mother had a cake. He [Ireland] ate the cake and he said, ‘This cake brings tears to my eyes. This is the best cake I’ve ever eaten.’ And he said to her ‘I can tell you that every kid who comes to Loyola and spends four years with me graduates, period. There’s not one kid who’s ever gone four years who didn’t have a degree.’ And what does a mother want to hear? It’s like we’re gonna take care of your son. And that was pretty much it. I said mom, I really like the University of Dayton. And she said no, I like that George Ireland man.”
RAMBLERS: LOYOLA CHICAGO 1963—THE TEAM THAT CHANGED THE COLOR OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL, BY MICHAEL LENEHAN (AGATE MIDWAY)
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