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Here is hoping history repeats itself. Nice article, although there is a major mistake in it. Can anyone find the mistake? The mistake is: I remember the 1963 NCAA Tiltle Game. It was Loyola (Ill) 60, Cincinnati 58 in overtime. The winning bucket was a tip in by Vic Rouse at the buzzer. I watched the game in Pittsburgh on a snowy screen from a channel from Wheeling. Was it WWVA-TV, Channel 7? So Loyola (Ill) did not come off a two point loss to Cincinnati in the 1963 title game as the article says. The mistake is: I remember the 1963 NCAA Tiltle Game. It was Loyola (Ill) 60, Cincinnati 58 in overtime. The winning bucket was a tip in by Vic Rouse at the buzzer. I watched the game in Pittsburgh on a snowy screen from a channel from Wheeling. Was it WWVA-TV, Channel 7? So Loyola (Ill) did not come off a two point loss to Cincinnati in the 1963 title game as the article says. Bingo!! Last edited by duq81 (3/04/2013 8:47 pm) That 1963 Loyola team gets no mention when discussing NCAA Champions. It was a very good team and scored about 90 points a game. Jerry Harkness was All-American. The year before, 1962, they beat a good Duquesne team in the NIT. That 1963 Loyola team gets no mention when discussing NCAA Champions. It was a very good team and scored about 90 points a game. Jerry Harkness was All-American. The year before, 1962, they beat a good Duquesne team in the NIT. that Duquesne team had John Cegalis, Mike Rice, Billy Stromple, and I think Willie Somerset and Denny Cuff, but that was my first Duquesne team and I was 13.' Clyde Arnold was also on that team. Wasn't Denny Cuff a walk-on who made the team. He may have received a scholorship, but I believe he was a walk-on first. Wasn't Denny Cuff a walk-on who made the team. He may have received a scholorship, but I believe he was a walk-on first. Denny Cuff was a walk-on and eventually earned a schoarship and was team co-captain his junior year and captain his senior year. He graduated from 5th Avenue High School. I saw Denny play, at 6-5 he was called the Jumping Jack, a sixth man then a starter and later a supervisor at Thrift Drug, when Eckard bought them from JC Penny's I think they transferred him to Fla where they were headquartered. RIP Denny Cuff.
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Bilgy wrote:
They corrected it now. In a way, the list is silly. The size of the school at the time it was ranked is more important than it's size now. Duquesne was tiny in 1954. Many schools have changed size in the last 40-50 years. Pitt used to be a small private school.
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Bilgy wrote:
A diehard fan since 1961
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Bilgy wrote:
He had Dukes' season tickets next to mine at the Civic Arena and the Palumbo Center until his job required his relocation to FL in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I was not a student at Duquesne when he played for the Dukes so I never saw him in action except for his appearances in the Rust Bowl where the Dukes' Alumni played the Pitt Alumni before the Dukes-Panthers game. He loved the Dukes and made watching the Dukes' games more enjoyable because of the informative comments he'd make duirng the games.
Unfortunately Denny passed away in July 2012.
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i knew a young pharm at Eckard and she was amazed when I told her of his basketball career at Duquesne, met him once, a good man.
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