Loyola News: “Loyola Plans Informal Team in Basketball”

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Loyola News: “Loyola Plans Informal Team in Basketball”

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A short Loyola News article discusses a series of basketball games planned for the 1944-45 season. The sport had been dropped around 1942 due to the war. This new, informal team was organized by athletic director Rev. James T. Hussey, S.J., would be coached by the director of the Physical Education program, Alex Wilson, and have ten members, nine of whom were freshmen. They played against Concordia college, Northern Illinois State Teachers College, Elmhurst college, and Wheaton college.

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circa 1944

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Loyola News: “Loyola Plans Informal Team in Basketball”

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University Archives and Special Collections , Loyola News: “Loyola Plans Informal Team in Basketball”

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Loyola University Chicago
World War II
Student life athletics

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