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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 44658, member: 27"] Nice thread OE. I am a little too young to have seen any Parochial League games...the closest I have seen are the games against CBA and Ludden. I went to St Vincent's and know that gym well (they closed the high school there the year before I would have entered it). It was really small, had almost no room past the end lines (you either ran into an unpadded wall on one end or the stage on the other). Very little room for fans on the sides of the gym...I assume the stage was were most fans sat. The most distinctive thing about that gym though was the low ceiling. Ridiculously low ceilings. You had to adjust the arc of your jumper if it was more than 14 or 15 feet...or it would hit the ceiling, the light fixtures, or the various and sundry other things that hung from it. By the mid 1970s I believe Assumption was playing on a gym with a tile floor, like you would find in a bathroom or maybe a cafeteria. It looked like it was their cafeteria. They didn't play real games against other high schools on that, did they? Lastly, I recommend checking out thiss story and video Sean Kirst made last year to welcome visitors to Syracuse for the NCAA tournament. He was trying to find a way to show people the connection the Syracuse community has with basketball, and decided to film it at one of the old PL gyms. You can get a brief glimse at the gym at St Patrick's. I recommend also reading the story that accompanies the video. It is about two of the players on the 1917-18 SU National Championship basketball team (OE recently posted about that team as well, so we have some serious OE dovetail action going on). He lived to be 99 or 100 years old, long enough to tell Sean a great story about that team. Note that the infamous game SU played against Penn, which Penn upset Syracuse, was the driving force behind a major rule change, where the person fouled has to shoot the foul shots (no designated free throw shooter). [URL='http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2010/03/a_talisman_of_love_loyalty_-_a.html']Link[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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