Phil Woolpert

Phil Woolpert, who coached the University of San Francisco to NCAA basketball championships in 1955 and 1956, died of lung cancer at his home Tuesday. He was 71. Woolpert's two national title teams were led by Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, who later starred for the Boston Celtics in the NBA. Jones now coaches the Celtics, and Russell was just named coach of the Sacramento Kings. Woolpert was diagnosed as having lung cancer last summer. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and five children.

Editor's Note: Ellsworth, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, is writing a book about the 1957 Final Four. Even among college basketball aficionados, Phil Woolpert is hardly a household name. It isn't because of his record. In 1955, at 39, he coached the University of San Francisco to an NCAA championship. A year later, he won it again, only one of nine coaches ever to repeat. And his 60-game winning streak at USF is still the second longest of any Division I school.

The first class of inductees into Loyola Marymount University's Athletic Hall of Fame will be honored in ceremonies Saturday before Loyola's basketball game against the University of San Francisco. Ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. Game time is 8 p.m.

Even among college basketball aficionados, Phil Woolpert is hardly a household name. It isn't because of his record. In 1955, at 39, he coached the University of San Francisco to an NCAA championship. A year later, he won it again, only one of nine coaches ever to repeat. And his 60-game winning streak at USF is still the second longest of any Division I school. Yet, even when he was posthumously enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

The first class of inductees into Loyola Marymount University's Athletic Hall of Fame will be honored in ceremonies Saturday before Loyola's basketball game against the University of San Francisco. Ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. Game time is 8 p.m. Thirty-three former athletes and administrators will be honored, covering a spectrum from football, baseball and basketball to women's crew and cross-country.

Editor's Note: Ellsworth, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, is writing a book about the 1957 Final Four. Even among college basketball aficionados, Phil Woolpert is hardly a household name. It isn't because of his record. In 1955, at 39, he coached the University of San Francisco to an NCAA championship. A year later, he won it again, only one of nine coaches ever to repeat. And his 60-game winning streak at USF is still the second longest of any Division I school.

Even among college basketball aficionados, Phil Woolpert is hardly a household name. It isn't because of his record. In 1955, at 39, he coached the University of San Francisco to an NCAA championship. A year later, he won it again, only one of nine coaches ever to repeat. And his 60-game winning streak at USF is still the second longest of any Division I school. Yet, even when he was posthumously enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

The glory days of Loyola football, from the 1930s to the early '50s, will be in the spotlight when Loyola Marymount University inducts nine former athletes and coaches and two Jesuit administrators into its Athletic Hall of Fame. Ceremonies for the school's second group of inductees will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Amfac hotel near the Westchester campus.

Playground legend Connie Hawkins, who once was shunned by the game in a cheating scandal, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, along with Bob Lanier and Sergei Belov, one of the first great guards from the former Soviet Union. Lusia Harris Stewart and Nera White were the first two women players honored, and Lou Carnesecca, Al McGuire, Jack Ramsay and the late Phil Woolpert were installed as coaches.

Phil Woolpert, who coached the University of San Francisco to NCAA basketball championships in 1955 and 1956, died of lung cancer at his home Tuesday. He was 71. Woolpert's two national title teams were led by Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, who later starred for the Boston Celtics in the NBA. Jones now coaches the Celtics, and Russell was just named coach of the Sacramento Kings. Woolpert was diagnosed as having lung cancer last summer. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and five children.

The glory days of Loyola football, from the 1930s to the early '50s, will be in the spotlight when Loyola Marymount University inducts nine former athletes and coaches and two Jesuit administrators into its Athletic Hall of Fame. Ceremonies for the school's second group of inductees will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Amfac hotel near the Westchester campus.

The first class of inductees into Loyola Marymount University's Athletic Hall of Fame will be honored in ceremonies Saturday before Loyola's basketball game against the University of San Francisco. Ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. Game time is 8 p.m. Thirty-three former athletes and administrators will be honored, covering a spectrum from football, baseball and basketball to women's crew and cross-country.

The first class of inductees into Loyola Marymount University's Athletic Hall of Fame will be honored in ceremonies Saturday before Loyola's basketball game against the University of San Francisco. Ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. Game time is 8 p.m.

Former New York Knick guards Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe are among 11 men nominated for the Basketball Hall of Fame in the city where the game was invented. Also nominated as players are Rick Barry, Pete Maravich and Lenny Wilkins, screening committee chairman Bob Cousy announced at Monday night's NBA exhibition game between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks to benefit the Hall.

This was nearly a decade before UCLA began its domination of college basketball, when the center of the basketball universe was thought to be the playgrounds of Philadelphia. There, the likes of Paul Arizin, Tom Gola and Guy Rodgers learned the game before becoming All-Americans at Villanova, La Salle and Temple, respectively. But all that changed on this date, when basketball's power center, with one game, jumped to the West Coast.