Bowling Green State University Athletics
FEB. 18, 1963 SENTINEL RECAP
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION
Windy City Five Caught In BG Draft
Falcons Awesome
By Gene Welty, Sentinel Sports Editor
Paced by a sure-fire future all-American, Butch Komives, the Falcons of Bowling Green State University ran with, ran over and ran around the lightning Ramblers of Loyola and won going away, 92-75.
Komives seared the nets in Anderson Arena for 32 points, 23 in the first half, as Bowling Green put an abrupt halt to the seemingly unstoppable Ramblers of George Ireland. It was sweet revenge for the Falcons who had stumbled at Chicago last season, 81-68.
Riding the crest of 21 straight wins, the Ramblers evidently figured Bowling Green would hold up the ball and play deliberate basketball. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Doctor Harold Anderson, who also serves as coach, gave the Ramblers a dose of their own medicine. He told the Falcons to play along with the Ramblers and run.
Run they did! Shoot they did! Win – they did!
Bowling Green hit five of its first six shots from the floor and a free throw to take an 11-1 lead with the game only three minutes and three seconds old. Five points were scored by the brilliant Komives, four by Wavey Junior who finished with 14 and two by Nate Thurmond who wound up with 24 points, a dozen rebounds and an all-American rating.
Komives, without a doubt, had no equal on the basketball floor, although Jerry Harkness tried his best to show up Komives. The best he could do was 21 points and only six rebounds. Les Hunter led the Loyola point-getters with 24.
Butch broke the Ramblers time after time with his long arching jump shots and his gazelle-like moves up the middle. But to say he was the whole BG show would be very unjust.
Junior, besides scoring 14 and grabbing five rebounds, led the defensive charge, stealing the ball, causing bad passes and generally making himself a nuisance to the Loyola offense which showed real signs of life only once. That was in the second half when Chicago closed to within nine points, 53-44.
But Junior and Thurmond each hit four points and Eli Chatman and Komives added a fielder each and BG opened the gap again to 65-50 with 12:21 left.
The teams traded basket for basket for the next three minutes and then the Falcons put on their fast finish. At 10:02, BG led 70-58. In the next three minutes and 22 seconds, the Falcons went wild. With all five scoring points (Komives 5, Thurmond 2, Junior 2, Haley 3 and Chatman 1), Andy’s club opened up an 83-64 lead with 6:22 to go. In that stretch while BG was scoring 13, the Ramblers managed only two baskets and three foul shots. That hot streak spelled doom for the visitors.
Komives and Thurmond, both tagged with four personals stuck it out and finally were taken out of the contest with about two minutes to go. Before their exit, leading by 19, the Falcons decided to hold up the ball. With Komives dribbling near the center of the floor, the Ramblers elected to double team him or who ever had the ball.
That left a man open underneath and the Falcons kept adding insult to injury by plunking in easy fielders under the basket. The “cake froster” came when Thurmond took a high pass from Komives and dunked in the Falcons’ 90th point.
Both Haley and John Egan fouled out of the game. Of Haley, Anderson said: “He didn’t get in double figures, but he played his best tonight.” Chatman had 11 points and was second high in rebounds for BG with eight.
Chatman, Junior, Haley and Komives put on a four-man press that gave Egan and Miller a few more gray hairs than they came to town with. The Loyola guards in 21 games had never bothered with a press, but the Falcons showed them a few new tricks. It wasn’t that Bowling Green stole the ball so much as it was the idea that Loyola couldn’t zoom the ball down the floor as it had been accustomed to doing.
When BG scored, Loyola couldn’t throw the ball in bounds unless BG’s reception committee was waiting.
The Ramblers also had been used to bringing the ball down the floor and shooting until it went in. The script had different characters playing that role Saturday night. The Falcons connected on 54.3 per cent of 70 shots, making 38 and adding 16 of 20 free throws.
Loyola made just 29 of 70 shots and 17 of 26 free throws.
There were 5,743 deliriously happy fans in the house, but probably the happiest was Harold Anderson, who was beaming prouder than a new father.
“I had my home red socks on tonight (he has two pair, one for the road and one for at home). If someone would have told me before the game that I would be using my substitutes at the end of the game, I would have told them they were nuts. I won’t say maybe. I will say it was the greatest team effort I’ve ever seen from a Bowling Green team.”
And in case you didn’t know, that takes in a lot of teams!
It was Coach Anderson’s 499th win and he needs one more to reach that select circle of 500 winners.
He’ll get his chance tonight when the Falcons entertain another Midwest power, Notre Dame. The Irish handled Navy easily Saturday, 68-56 and will bring along a 15-5 record.
Bowling Green is now 14-6, on a six-game winning streak and has won eight of its last nine.
WFOB will broadcast the game at 8 p.m.
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION
Windy City Five Caught In BG Draft
Falcons Awesome
By Gene Welty, Sentinel Sports Editor
Paced by a sure-fire future all-American, Butch Komives, the Falcons of Bowling Green State University ran with, ran over and ran around the lightning Ramblers of Loyola and won going away, 92-75.
Komives seared the nets in Anderson Arena for 32 points, 23 in the first half, as Bowling Green put an abrupt halt to the seemingly unstoppable Ramblers of George Ireland. It was sweet revenge for the Falcons who had stumbled at Chicago last season, 81-68.
Riding the crest of 21 straight wins, the Ramblers evidently figured Bowling Green would hold up the ball and play deliberate basketball. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Doctor Harold Anderson, who also serves as coach, gave the Ramblers a dose of their own medicine. He told the Falcons to play along with the Ramblers and run.
Run they did! Shoot they did! Win – they did!
Bowling Green hit five of its first six shots from the floor and a free throw to take an 11-1 lead with the game only three minutes and three seconds old. Five points were scored by the brilliant Komives, four by Wavey Junior who finished with 14 and two by Nate Thurmond who wound up with 24 points, a dozen rebounds and an all-American rating.
Komives, without a doubt, had no equal on the basketball floor, although Jerry Harkness tried his best to show up Komives. The best he could do was 21 points and only six rebounds. Les Hunter led the Loyola point-getters with 24.
Butch broke the Ramblers time after time with his long arching jump shots and his gazelle-like moves up the middle. But to say he was the whole BG show would be very unjust.
Junior, besides scoring 14 and grabbing five rebounds, led the defensive charge, stealing the ball, causing bad passes and generally making himself a nuisance to the Loyola offense which showed real signs of life only once. That was in the second half when Chicago closed to within nine points, 53-44.
But Junior and Thurmond each hit four points and Eli Chatman and Komives added a fielder each and BG opened the gap again to 65-50 with 12:21 left.
The teams traded basket for basket for the next three minutes and then the Falcons put on their fast finish. At 10:02, BG led 70-58. In the next three minutes and 22 seconds, the Falcons went wild. With all five scoring points (Komives 5, Thurmond 2, Junior 2, Haley 3 and Chatman 1), Andy’s club opened up an 83-64 lead with 6:22 to go. In that stretch while BG was scoring 13, the Ramblers managed only two baskets and three foul shots. That hot streak spelled doom for the visitors.
Komives and Thurmond, both tagged with four personals stuck it out and finally were taken out of the contest with about two minutes to go. Before their exit, leading by 19, the Falcons decided to hold up the ball. With Komives dribbling near the center of the floor, the Ramblers elected to double team him or who ever had the ball.
That left a man open underneath and the Falcons kept adding insult to injury by plunking in easy fielders under the basket. The “cake froster” came when Thurmond took a high pass from Komives and dunked in the Falcons’ 90th point.
Both Haley and John Egan fouled out of the game. Of Haley, Anderson said: “He didn’t get in double figures, but he played his best tonight.” Chatman had 11 points and was second high in rebounds for BG with eight.
Chatman, Junior, Haley and Komives put on a four-man press that gave Egan and Miller a few more gray hairs than they came to town with. The Loyola guards in 21 games had never bothered with a press, but the Falcons showed them a few new tricks. It wasn’t that Bowling Green stole the ball so much as it was the idea that Loyola couldn’t zoom the ball down the floor as it had been accustomed to doing.
When BG scored, Loyola couldn’t throw the ball in bounds unless BG’s reception committee was waiting.
The Ramblers also had been used to bringing the ball down the floor and shooting until it went in. The script had different characters playing that role Saturday night. The Falcons connected on 54.3 per cent of 70 shots, making 38 and adding 16 of 20 free throws.
Loyola made just 29 of 70 shots and 17 of 26 free throws.
There were 5,743 deliriously happy fans in the house, but probably the happiest was Harold Anderson, who was beaming prouder than a new father.
“I had my home red socks on tonight (he has two pair, one for the road and one for at home). If someone would have told me before the game that I would be using my substitutes at the end of the game, I would have told them they were nuts. I won’t say maybe. I will say it was the greatest team effort I’ve ever seen from a Bowling Green team.”
And in case you didn’t know, that takes in a lot of teams!
It was Coach Anderson’s 499th win and he needs one more to reach that select circle of 500 winners.
He’ll get his chance tonight when the Falcons entertain another Midwest power, Notre Dame. The Irish handled Navy easily Saturday, 68-56 and will bring along a 15-5 record.
Bowling Green is now 14-6, on a six-game winning streak and has won eight of its last nine.
WFOB will broadcast the game at 8 p.m.