saint0917
February 5th, 2009, 06:01 AM
2/4/61:
The seeds of the modern-day intense basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina are sown during tonight’s game at Cameron Indoor Stadium when Larry Brown of North Carolina (yes, that Larry Brown!) drives the lane in the closing seconds and becomes entangled with Duke All-American Art Heyman. Brown and Heyman (both from Long Island’s South Shore) go at it, other players join in, the scuffle along the baseline spills into the spectators and the police must act quickly to defuse a potential powder keg in the sweltering gym. Duke wins the game, 81-77, led by 36 points from Heyman, but the festering enmity between the neighboring universities becomes part-and-parcel of their competition.
B I R T H D A Y S
Bennie Oosterbaan b. 1906
Byron Nelson b. 1912
Lawrence Taylor b. 1959
Denis Savard b. 1961
Oscar De La Hoya b. 1973
The seeds of the modern-day intense basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina are sown during tonight’s game at Cameron Indoor Stadium when Larry Brown of North Carolina (yes, that Larry Brown!) drives the lane in the closing seconds and becomes entangled with Duke All-American Art Heyman. Brown and Heyman (both from Long Island’s South Shore) go at it, other players join in, the scuffle along the baseline spills into the spectators and the police must act quickly to defuse a potential powder keg in the sweltering gym. Duke wins the game, 81-77, led by 36 points from Heyman, but the festering enmity between the neighboring universities becomes part-and-parcel of their competition.
B I R T H D A Y S
Bennie Oosterbaan b. 1906
Byron Nelson b. 1912
Lawrence Taylor b. 1959
Denis Savard b. 1961
Oscar De La Hoya b. 1973