a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
PRESS RELATIONS BUREAU
6525 Sheridan Road
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

OFFICE OF THE DirECTOR March 22, 1940

Dre F. CG. Allien,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dre Allen,

I have a note from Coach Len Sachs to drop you a line saying that
he will attend the convention. Please pardon our seeming oversight
in not notifying you, before this late date, but both Len and I have
been very busy on the National Catholic Basketball Tournament which
opens here at Loyola next Wednesday evening.

On the matter of rule changes, Len believes firmly that the tech-
nical foul penalty, wherein the team awarded the free throw is also
given possession of the ball, seems unfair to the offending team,
and he as of the opinion that this rule should be modified. As a
matter of fact, he tells me in his note to emphasize this point;

I believe it suffieient to mention the rule and his requested
emphasize.

He also mentioned that you wanted the record of his tenure here at
Loyola. I trust the following is satisfactory.

Bince the season of 1923-24, Loyola's teams under Lennie have won
193 and lost 115 for a .6254 average, scoring 9119 points to the
opponent's 7682. His team of 1928-29 was undefeated in 16 games,
while the 1938-39 squad went through its twenty game schedule with-
out a loss, losing only to Long Island in the finals of the Metro-
politan Writer's Invitational Tournament in New York City for a
final record of 21-1.

From 1927-28 until 1929-30, the Loyola team was undefeated in 33
consecutive games, setting what was then a modern world's record

in intercollegiate competition. The Chicago Catholic Championship
series, begun in 1936-37 with De Paul university, has resulted in
Loyola winning the first three years to retire the first cup placed
in competition. De Paul broke the ice this season 21-15.

Players of national reputation developed by Sachs include: Joe

Wibry, 1927 All-Western guard; Jim Brenmer and Tony Lawless, 1928
All-Western forwards; Charlie "Feed" Murphy, 1929 and 1930 All-

American center; Marv Colen, 1937 All-American guard; and Wibs
Kautz and Mike Novak, All-American guard and center respectively
in 1938 and 1939.

Len's teams have been famous in collegiate circles ever since his
start at Loyola. He is one of the first to use a zone defense ex- |
tensively, but in addition the Ramblers gained fame as a team able
to switch to a man-to-man at any point of a game without an apparent
case of stage-fright. Opponents never know which kind of a defense

they will encounter in Loyola, and one is as good as the other.

 

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