THE COACHES
Leonard D. Sachs-- Director of Athletics
Varsity Basketball Coach

Exactly 19 years ago Loyola University obtained
the services of Leonard D. Sachs to coach the basketball
team, basketball havin: been established as an inter-
collegiate sport at that time, Today this same Coach
Sachs can be found putting the modern version of the
Ramblers through their paces. Since 1924 Loyola team
have won 189 games while losing 109. This gives Loyola
a win average of .635 and a lose average of .365, which
is indeed a remarkable record considering the class
of competition, and the quantity and caliber of the
material that Sachs yearly molds into a winning com-
bination. In 1923 the Ramblers had won 435 straight games
before losing to Purdue and were recognized National
Champions. Again in 1938 the Ramblers completed their
regular season without a loss and had run their streak
to 21 before losing to L.I.U, in the finals of the
Metropolitan Sports Writers Tourney. All of this has
been accomplished with material provided from the 1.50
students on the Lake Shore Campus. Coach Sachs being
one of the earliest advocates of the pivot play and
an authority on this type of play has produced the
games greatest pivot men in Charlie "Feed" Murphy and
Big Mike Novak. Coaching the U is not the only work
that Sachs must find time for. He also coaches the
Loyola Academy Football and Track teams and has been
turning out Champions for them as well. His teams have
won four football and five track championships since

1928 and yearly they are listed among the top contenders
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