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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 280567, member: 34"] [B][COLOR=#000080]This morning Tom Cat sent me the link below[/COLOR][/B] [URL='http://www.redmen.com/forum/4-redmentalk/12653-nyust-johns-discussion.html'][B][COLOR=#000080][U]http://www.redmen.com/forum/4-redmentalk/12653-nyust-johns-discussion.html[/U][/COLOR][/B][/URL] [B][COLOR=#000080]These are comments on Gene:[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000080]Comment 1. [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000080]Don't have any strong memories of the Satch Sanders teams, but during the post-Sanders Barry Kramer era NYU also had Gene Fisch, a short PG (a big HS star in Syracuse) who looked and played a lot like our own Albie Swartz from the mid-60s, and Bob Patton, a 6'-5" Barry Kramer lookalike (though not play-alike). They also had Ray Bennett, a highly touted 6'-9" center who quickly showed that he possibly had the worst hands in the history of the sport.[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000080][B]For those who followed the the Violets in those year, you can read the famous pre-season assessment of them -- they were picked to win the national title -- in SI's December '63 issue at [/B][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000080]Comment 2. [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000080]Fred was just back from TB rehab along with Tom Stith. Miles Aiken was the star of that team. Gene Fisch was a 2 guard in a small pg body. [/COLOR][/B] [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1075468/1/index.htm'][B][COLOR=#000080][U]NYU was preseason #1 in 1963[/U][/COLOR][/B][/URL][B][COLOR=#000080] no mention of Gene but he did play point guard that year.[/COLOR][/B] [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1075779/index.htm'][B][COLOR=#000080][U]He is mentioned in this SI article in 1964[/U][/COLOR][/B][/URL] [B][COLOR=#000080][U][IMG]http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NY-AE665_NYU_G_20100430171434.jpg[/IMG][/U][/COLOR][/B] [URL='http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19621208&id=3e8qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-4gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3971,1355836'][B][COLOR=#000080][U]Mention of Gene in Barry Kramer article[/U][/COLOR][/B][/URL][B][COLOR=#000080]*[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000080]*Funny story, I played in the New York State Senior Olympics about 15 years ago. Playing against Albany, I fought through a pick and got a wicked elbow in the upper left arm. I got in the guys face and said, "Do that again and I'll bring you to your knees." Someone said, "Do you know who you were talking to." I said, "I don't know and I don't care." He said, "That's Barry Kramer the former All American from NYU.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000080][IMG]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAyNFg5MTA=/$(KGrHqN,!g0E7SuiqL+eBO9UGPpk)w~~60_12.JPG[/IMG][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000080]A couple of days latter my wife said, "What's wrong with your arm?" I looked in the mirror and from my elbow to the shoulder I was wearing a deep purple bruise, a souvenir from my hardwood encounter with a former consensus All American.[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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