Tag Archives: College basketball
Jayson Williams
Jayson Williams (College and pro basketball. Born, Ritter, SC, February 22, 1968.) A standout center at St. John’s and later ranked as one of the top rebounders in the N.B.A., Jayson Williams, one of the sport’s most voluble and quotable players, offering humorous and sometimes insightful comments on a wide range of topics. (Example: on his college coach, […]
Sherman White
Sherman White (College basketball. Born, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 16, 1928; died, Piscataway, N.J., Aug. 4, 2011.) One of the most gifted of the young players in college basketball following World War II, Sherman White, who grew up in Englewood, N.J., began a promising career at Long Island U. in Brooklyn. As a sophomore, he was […]
Gary Waters
Gary Waters (College basketball. Born, Detroit, MI, Aug. 15, 1951.) Named 15th head coach of Rutgers basketball Apr. 6, 2001, Gary Steven Walters led the Scarlet Knights to the N.I.T. three times in his five seasons as head coach. In his first season in Piscataway, the team went 18-13, and in his third (2003-04), the school reached its […]
Bobby Wanzer
Bobby Wanzer (College basketball. Born, Brooklyn, NY, June 4, 1921.) A New York high school basketball star, Robert Francis Wanzer became a standout guard at Seton Hall and later with Rochester in the N.B.A. Wanzer starred for Bill Spiegel at Benjamin Franklin on teams that were unbeaten P.S.A.L. champions. A World War II hitch in […]
Butch van Breda Kolff
Butch van Breda Kolff (College basketball. Born, Montclair, NJ, Oct. 22, 1922; died, Spokane, WA, Aug. 22, 2007.) A Princeton basketball captain and member of the Knicks, Butch van Breda Kolff became a legend in the ranks of basketball coaching with a career that began in 1951 and extended to 1994. He coached at four colleges, two […]
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor (College and pro basketball. Born, Perth Amboy, NJ, June 9, 1951.) A talented 6’3” backcourt star, Brian Taylor scored over 1,200 points in two seasons at Princeton and then helped the New York Nets win two A.B.A. championships. Taylor averaged 23.5 points per game for the Tigers in 1970-71 as a sophomore and […]
Sid Tanenbaum
Sid Tanenbaum (College Basketball. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 8, 1925; died, Far Rockaway, NY, Sept. 4, 1986.) Even though not all of his games were against what would later be classified as collegiate opposition, Sidney Tanenbaum was the first player to score 1,000 points in his N.Y.U. basketball career (1,074). As a sophomore, in 1944-45, […]
C. Vivian Stringer
C. Vivian Stringer (College basketball. Born, Edenborn, PA, Mar. 16, 1948.) When Charlene Vivian Stringer coached Rutgers’ 2000 women’s basketball team to the Final Four, she became the first coach to lead three different schools into the women’s Final Four. (The Lady Knights lost their semifinal game to Tennessee, 64-54). Stringer had previously coached both Cheney (Penna.) and Iowa (1993) to […]
Johnny Stevens
Johnny Stevens (Baseball, college basketball. Born, Duquesne, PA, May 12, 1913; died, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 9, 1981.) An American League baseball umpire (1948-69), John William Stevens was probably better known to New York area fans as a major college basketball official who often paired with the legendary John Nucatola (the two worked the 1957 N.I.T. final […]
