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Date Posted: 11:31:55 07/01/04 Thu
Author: Interested Worcester HC BB Fan
Subject: Ron Teixeira

A friend of mine saw a commercial on Channel 3 with HC alum Ron Teixeira (sp?) plugging his water filtration company. Anyway, he (my friend) went on to say that Ron's freshman team would pack the Auditorium (back in the 60's)with larger crowds than the Varsity! Said to be a big 6'10" C with State scoring record (at that time) out of Memorial High. Suddenly, he gives up basketball in his soph yr. What happened???? Who else played on this Freshman team?

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[> Re: Texeira & Alcindor? -- KY Crusader '75, 13:36:07 07/01/04 Thu

Wasn't there a storied matchup between Texeira's Catholic Memorial team and NYC's Power Memorial with Lew Alcindor? Of course we all know that Lew was "supposed to go to Holy Cross" along with his HS coach, Jack Donahue.....

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[> [> Disappointment and Tough Breaks for past BB teams -- TS1970, 15:58:39 07/01/04 Thu

Actually, having also attended that Friday night game at MSG, I recall it was a 23 point loss, 90-67. Keith Hochstein was ferocious, but it was in vain. Lew Alcindor just had too many easy buckets. Had Ron Texiera played, it would probably have been much closer, but, of course, we'll never know. BC and Bob Kissane put a big scare into UCLA at the Garden the next night (Saturday) and lost by only 8, I believe it was. I guess we had softened UCLA up and tired them out on Friday night. Coach Cousy and BC came damn close to upsetting them.

As a student at the time,I recall being very disappointed that Ron Texiera quit the team sometime prior to that game with UCLA. That disappointment was only matched years later in the 1976-1977 season when I learned that Ron Perry and John O'Connor (6'8" C) were done for the season due to unfortunate injuries and therefore would be unable to play in our first round, NCAA Tournamnet game against Ricky Green and the U of Michigan Wolverines at Bloomington, Indiana. Even without them, our Crusader team (Mike Vincens, Chris Potter, Charlie Brown and Billy? Doran...don't recall the others) was up by 1 at the half but finally lost that nationally televised game by 11, I believe. Had Perry and O'Connor been healthy and played, I am convinced we would have beaten Michigan and advanced.

I know injuries are a large part of the game, but those came at a very crucial time for HC and were a devastatingly bad break for those players and for HC. Michigan did make it to the final 4 in that tournament, but I don't recall if it won the championship or not. Does anyone know or can someone please look that up?

IN HOC SIGNO VINCES.

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[> [> [> In 77marquette Beats UNC . Good reference -- Ted Delta, 18:03:51 07/01/04 Thu

A good reference for validating fading memories id the infoplease Almanac .
http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0747185.html
Al Mc Quire's Marguette team with Jerome Whitehead knocked off Mike O'Koren (Jersey City guy ) and Walt Davis North Carolina team in final

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[> [> [> '77 memories -- BeatBC (..and PC), 10:11:13 07/02/04 Fri

I spent a lot of time watching that 76-77 team (and have the grades to prove it) - HC beat then-8th ranked PC (for the 2nd time that season)for the NE ECAC bid and our reward was that first rounder against #1 ranked Michigan. I believe that was our last win against a Top-10 team

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[> [> [> Disappointment and Tough Breaks for past BB teams -- TS1970, 14:51:39 07/02/04 Fri

Sorry. I was wrong. Michigan only made it to the Elite 8, not the Final Four, in that 76-77 season (when HC played the Wolverines in that first round game) and was knocked out of the tournament by NC-Charlotte (Cornbread Maxwell was on its team) in the Mid-East Regional Final. However, you are right. Michigan had been ranked #1 in the nation after the regular season.

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[> [> [> Re: Michigan game -- Rick, 12:29:25 07/06/04 Tue

Pete Beckenbach....AIR, he played pretty well in Perry's absense, no ?

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[> [> [> Disappointment and Tough Breaks for past BB teams -- TS1970, 13:59:44 07/06/04 Tue

Sorry, Rick, I don't recall who played in Ron Perry's absence. You have a better memory than I if you can recall that. What I do remember was the feeling that fate had dealt us some lousy cards again. I felt it was bad luck and a great disappointment that two of HC's star players (Perry and O'Connor) were unavailable when HC, for the first time in years, had a really powerful team that, if healthy, was capable of making a run in the tournament.

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[> [> [> [> To: TS -- Rick, 15:34:09 07/06/04 Tue

Beckenbach - Recall him coming to HC after breaking most of Rick Barry's scoring records at Roselle HS in New Jersey. Prior to Perry's injury, I think he was our 3rd-4th guard.

O'Connor - Very underrated player who I thought was terrific ( great leeper/rebounder ) that year. AIR, he tore his Achillies(sp) tendon just before the Michigan game and was never the same player in his senior season.

Lousy hand dealt us for sure....I also believe we cudda taken Michigan as well at full strength.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: HC/Michigan -- timholycross, 09:15:43 07/09/04 Fri

For some reason, this game popped into my head last night.

We had a player named (no kidding) Charlie Browne. Curt Gowdy was broadcasting the game for NBC and kept calling him "George".

Charlie's career was hampered by a recurring foot injury, as I recall. He did contribute a lot down the stretch in that 76-77 season; plus a couple of years later he played a big part in a HC win at BC.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: HC/Michigan -- timholycross, 09:16:12 07/09/04 Fri

For some reason, this game popped into my head last night.

We had a player named (no kidding) Charlie Browne. Curt Gowdy was broadcasting the game for NBC and kept calling him "George".

Charlie's career was hampered by a recurring foot injury, as I recall. He did contribute a lot down the stretch in that 76-77 season; plus a couple of years later he played a big part in a HC win at BC.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: HC/Michigan -- HC '85, 09:45:15 07/09/04 Fri

Also remember Gowdy calling Michael Vicens

"VINcens" throughout the game.

By the end of the broadcast my whole family was ready to throw our 19" B&W TV out the window Gowdy was so bad!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- KY Crusader '75, 10:54:49 07/09/04 Fri

Curt Gowdy must have been quite the politician because he surely was one of the worst announcers ever to assault a microphone. I grew up with him as the Red Sox announcer and, fittingly, he left the Red Sox to go national just before the Sox improbably won the 1967 pennant with Ken Coleman behind the mike. Gowdy butchered every name other than Smith or Jones. The network would school him before games, literally instruct him on how to pronounce ethnic names and he just fell back on his convenient goober mispronunciations. My favorite was Lynn Shackleford of UCLA, a long name, but one easily broken down into syllables: Shack-Ell-Ford. For Gowdy it was Shackafa. Gowdy complemented the butchering of names with a nasal voice and lack of insight: he was the whole package of ineptness.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- Gowdy or Fouracre?, 11:15:27 07/09/04 Fri

Pick your Poison. Who would you rather have announce a basketball game?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Gowdyism -- sader1970, 13:30:22 07/09/04 Fri

While watching a basketball game during my days at HC, there was a NCAA final on TV and Gowdy said about one player: "He's the only senior of the 4 starting seniors on this team." I never could figure out what he was trying to say but, more importantly, no one ever whispered in his ear from the control booth to ask him to clarify what he just said or what he meant.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- HC '85, 14:05:20 07/09/04 Fri

Did a quick google search and found the following at anecdotage.com

Sportscaster Curt Gowdy once recapped the final score of an All-Star baseball game. "And at the game's end, it's National League 6, American League 4," he declared. "The score again is American League 6 and National League 4."

I guess it is a tough call between Fouracre & Gowdy!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- not close...4-acre the worst, 15:24:51 07/09/04 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- Gowdy, Murphy & Martin - among the best, 15:45:29 07/09/04 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- timholycross, 21:08:25 07/10/04 Sat

I'm 52. The Curt Gowdy of the 60's and early 70's was a great broadcaster. He was toast* by the time of the aforementioned game vs. Michigan.

Plus, as ABC did with Al Michaels (doing the NBA finals) this year, the guy was over-used, plugged into events that he didn't have much to do with.

*don't know why- booze, boredom, eyesight, no idea which. He wasn't that old, late 50's at most.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- hc69, 14:48:31 07/12/04 Mon

Growing up in CT, I listened to Mel Allen do the Yankees and Red Barber and Vin Scully do the Dodgers, as well as Gowdy and the Sox. When the Dodgers headed west, Barber joined Allen to make up what was probably the best team of baseball announcers ever. I don't think a lot of people know that Gowdy announced Yankee games with Allen before getting the Sox job. He was a good baseball announcer, but I don't think his knowledge of baseball was as extensive as that of Allen and Barber (who was an award-winning sports columnist as well). His knowledge of basketball was less, and listening to him announce AFL football games (with Al DeRogatis?) bordered on torture.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Gowdy -- Rick, 22:52:15 07/12/04 Mon

Yea but he was great hosting 'American Sportsman' when he and Ted Williams would go deep sea fishing !

Didn't Gowdy work with Paul Christman as his color man for the AFL games ?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: HC/Michigan -- TS1970, 00:42:29 07/10/04 Sat

I think I am also guilty of bad spelling and referring to Michael Vicens as Michael "V-i-n-c-e-n-s." Wasn't the USS Vincens the naval vessel that was boarded and seized by the North Koreans in international waters many years ago? The N. Koreans "claimed" it was spying in their waters. What year was that incident? Wasn't that also in the 70's? How's your memory? Mine is #&*^*#@$!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: HC/Michigan -- TS1970, 01:17:27 07/10/04 Sat

I know the USS PUEBLO was seized in 1968 by the North Koreans, but I sort of recall something happening to a US naval vessel I thought was named the VINCENS. I don't know. Maybe Alzheimer's has already begun to set in.........lol.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Vincens -- sader1970, 06:47:26 07/10/04 Sat

TS, the Vincens was the ship that was "accidently" hit by Iraqi missles during the Iran-Iraq war with much loss of life. The USA was a non-combatant in that war though we supplied weapons and intelligence to the Iraqis since we were against Iran (Iraq was an "enemy to my enemy and therefore, my friend"). Why you remember it was because after the ship came home and was repaired, the command of the ship was taken over by one of our classmates.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Vincens -- TS1970, 22:27:37 07/10/04 Sat

THANKS for taking the time to explain. Now it all makes sense why that name "Vincens" was stuck in there. Yes, now I do remember reading in Crossroads at some point about the change in command of that ship and the HC connection.

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[> [> [> [> Charlie Browne -- BeatBC, 10:54:04 07/09/04 Fri

Charlie Browne had, for me, the signature play of that Michigan game with a basket in the closing seconds of the first half to give us the half-time lead.

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[> [> [> [> [> "signature play"?--vicens slam!!- best in 40 yrs? -- hchoops, 16:54:08 07/11/04 Sun

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira -- sader1970, 13:37:34 07/01/04 Thu

Ron was a year ahead of me and, my recollection was he was 6' 9" and was the #2 rated high school center behind Lew Alcindor. Coach Donovan played Ron as a forward instead of the natural center that he was. In the center position was Keith Hochstein who was much shorter (at most 6' 5") but who the previous year was the #3 rebounder in the country and more experienced. "Easy Ed" Siudet played the other forward position. The HC freshman team of Ron and Ed's year were "ranked" the second best college freshman BB team to UCLA.

The year that HC was to play UCLA at Madison Square Garden and to be a "reunion" of Lew Alcindor with his high school BB coach (Jack Donovan) and what most folks saw on campus as might have been a battle of big men (i.e. Alcindor vs. Texiera) never came to be because Donovan continued to keep Keith at center.

It was never clear exactly why Ron quit the team before the season started. The purported reason was that he felt that his basketball commitment was adversely impacting his grades (he was an excellent student as I recall). However, the word on campus was two conflicting stories. 1)Ron was ticked off at Donovan for not budging about letting him play center and moving the shorter Hochstein to forward or 2) that Ron knew of the impending battle with Alcindor and that Donovan WOULD have moved him to center and he was petrified that he would look terrible against the bigger Alcindor.

Whatever the true story was, I went to the HC-UCLA game which was scheduled a few days after and the next game after UCLA had an unbelievably long winning streak broken by a loss to Houston and Alcindor being outplayed by Elvin Hayes. The line was that HC would lose by a minimum of 50 points and some thought we'd lose by 100 points as UCLA was very upset and had something to prove to the country.

In addition to Alcindor, UCLA had two All-American guards and they would press the entire game. Jack Donovan, in preparation for the UCLA press practiced at the fieldhouse and had our starting 5 bring the ball up against 7 defenders. In the actual game, our 4 "other" players outplayed the UCLA 4. But Hochstein was just too short and Alcindor was all over him and the difference in a loss of about 26 or so points. My quote after the game was "it was the closest 26 point loss I've ever seen." HC absolutely demolished the vaunted UCLA press and I believe that UCLA guards had more turnovers than ours did but I don't believe they kept that stat in those days.

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[> [> Re: Ron Teixeira -- Sader98, 13:50:08 07/01/04 Thu

So I guess these "moral victories" against bigger schools are not a recent phenomenom. I was unaware of the close 26 point loss over 30 years ago.

Sorry, cynical side coming out again.

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira - sader 1970 -- Rick, 14:07:47 07/01/04 Thu

Good recall....interesting memories.

AIR, Ron was first listed @ 6'10" 245( NY Times ), then 6'9" 225 his frosh year. Turned out he was closer to 6'8". After leaving the team became a weight-lifting enthusiast and got up to a chiseled 275....prompting thoughts/suggestions that he try playing either TE or DT for HC's gridders.

All true re SRO for those frosh games. Teixeira, Ed Siudit, Gerry Foley, Chuck Mullane and Jim Moore were the starters....think they went 19-1 with the lone loss to....yup, you guessed it....the BC frosh led by future AA Terry Driscoll.

BTW, that was Jack DonoHUE there....common mistake.

Simply put, Jack and Ron didn't get along. Jack was a tough guy to play for. Ron didn't use his size well underneath....was a more finesse type player.

Keith Hochstein - listed at 6'4" but in reality closer to 6'3". Brother Greg was 6'5"

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[> [> Rick -- hc69, 17:11:45 07/01/04 Thu

I seem to recall that we went 1-1 against BC that year, with a win at home and a loss down there. Ron outplayed Driscoll in the win. And of course you're right about it being Donohue . . . Alzheimer's, I guess . . .

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[> [> [> Re: Rick -- sader1970, 19:42:29 07/01/04 Thu

I have business dealings with Driscoll's younger brother on a regualr basis. Driscoll played in the NBA for something like 3 years and is now the athletic director at William and Mary. His brother is a senior executive with a large national insurance company and another BC grad which we raze each other about the old rivalry all the time.

Ron T. had all the potential in the world on the BB court and it was such a shame that he and Jack D. couldn't see eye to eye.

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[> [> [> To: '69 -- Rick, 12:22:31 07/06/04 Tue

I'm sure you're right on the split my friend....old Roberts Center was rarely kind to either the varsity or the frosh. That place was always cramped and HOT....don't know how they squeezed 4,200 in there.

Was it only BC we ( frosh & varsity ) we played twice in the regular season ? I believe so but am thinking maybe the frosh played PC & Uconn twice as well.

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[> [> Re: Ron Teixeira - sader 1970 -- sader1970, 17:34:06 07/01/04 Thu

Rick, thanks for correcting my screwing up coach Donahue's name. I'm mortified as I was a big Donahue fan. And now that I'm home and can look it up, the final score of the UCLA game was 90-67. That '67-'68 season ended with a 15-8 record but the team was only 7-5 going into the game. Following the UCLA loss, the team ran off 8 straight wins including an 89-82 victory over nationally ranked BC, Syracuse, U. Conn and Providence before losing the last two to St. John's and a close loss (90-87) to BC.

About the UCLA game from the 1968 Purple Patcher: "Before a large Madison Square Garden crowd, the squad showed long-awaited spirit and finesse against Mr. Alcindor & Friends, although it was a 90-67 losing cause. However, their respectable performances supplied the fillip to carry them through the roughest line-up on the schedule, and in a winning fashion at that. Siudut again, whose late season surge brought him All-East honors weeke after week, led the pack with 36 points in downing B.U. Then the most glorious of contests followed as the Crusaders stunned nationally-ranked BC, 89-82. Siudut and Hochstein poured in 30 points apiece (editorial comment : wouldn't we like anyone with that kind of scoring ability on today's team? and there was no 3 point shot then), it was the first victory over the Eagles in four years, and Keith was the tenth man to join the Holy Cross 100-point club."

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[> [> [> To: 1970 Re: the UCLA game -- Rick, 13:10:52 07/06/04 Tue

I attended the game as well....

Correct me if I'm wrong but AIR the Bruins came out a little flat and HC actually led 6-2 in the opening minutes prompting the pro-underdog/HC MSG crowd to go into a cheering frenzy ( your's truly included ). Coach Wooden called an angry time-out and really let his troops have it on their bench and....well....that was that as far as the outcome being in any doubt.

BTW, didn't Hochstein and Alcindor nearly come to blows that night ? Keith ( listed at 6'4" 220 ) didn't back down to anyone but thankfully for Hochstein, the then 7'2" 235lb. Alcindor just went about playing the game.

That UCLA team....I believe had Alcindor with 5'11" Lucious Allen and 6'1" Mike Warren ( later an actor of 'Hill Street Blues' fame ) in the backcourt with 6'5" Lynn Shackelford ( what a shooter ! ) and I think 6'7" 225lb. Mike Lynne at the forwards. Four of the five were AA's that year !

BC really played them tough the following night with 6'7" 225lb. Terry Driscoll, 6'9" 220lb. Jim Kissane ( HC's Bob's older brother ) and another 6'8" guy whose name escapes me, being better able to go toe to toe up front with the Bruins than we were sans Teixiera. I think BC lost by only 14-15 points or so.

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[> [> [> [> Re: the UCLA game - another question? -- BeatBC, 15:08:51 07/06/04 Tue

...wasn't this also the first college basketball game at the new Madison Square Garden?

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: the UCLA game - another question? -- Rick, 15:44:07 07/06/04 Tue

Beat -

I think it was supposed to be but I believe completion of the new MSG was delayed and these games wound up at the old building....without checking the HC archives, I'm not 100% sure about this.

BTW, over my workbench at home I still have 2 never used peel-off/stick-on 'BEAT BC' auto bumper stickers circa the early 80's. Guess they qualify as collector's items, eh ?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> To Rick -- BeatBC, 10:54:45 07/07/04 Wed

...I have the same sticker - I used several on cars in the 80's - have one left, proudly displayed amongst other sports memorabilia (including a framed ticket stub from the '77 35-20 shellacking of BC @ Fitton - the only time I ever saw us beat BC in football) - sigh...'Beat Marist' will never have the same ring...

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: BC games -- Rick, 11:57:02 07/08/04 Thu

It still irks me that I didn't attend that BC-HC game in '77.

Was it true that only 12,000 or so were in attendance at Fitton ( believe we were a 4-5 TD dog going in ) for the kick-off but by the start of the 4th quarter the crowd had swelled to 15,000+ via the then radio broadcasts and ABC flashing the score on it's college football telecast early that afternoon ?

I DID see the 30-29 triller at old Alumni Stadium which featured Glenn Verette's last minute game-saving interception in our endzone....Man, beating BC at Alumni was sweet !

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: BC games -- BeatBC, 10:48:04 07/09/04 Fri

12K+ sounds about right, it was definitely the smallest BC-game crowd I was ever part of. Not sure about the crowd increase during the game. it was Thanksgiving weekend so no students on campus but many were probably close enough to show up after halftime....certainly no-one left early. Hell, I remember how great I felt just seeing us up at half (21-20?)....remains the only time I ever rushed a field after a game.....was away with the Navy for the '78 game - didn't BC end up 0-11 that year?

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[> [> [> Re: Ron Teixeira - sader 1970 -- TS1970, 14:52:18 07/06/04 Tue

Great memory, Rick. Yes, I do recall we had a very brief lead early in the UCLA game. Also, I knew there was a Kissane on the BC team at the time, but you're right. It was Jim not Bob. I also thought that the final score of the BC-UCLA game was closer than a 14-15 point spread, but I am not sure. I do think I recall BC had gotten as close as 8 points in the closing minutes, but the final margin of BC's defeat may have been more than 8. Does anyone have the official final score?

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[> [> [> [> disagree -- hchoops, 20:33:56 07/06/04 Tue

i saw tex's frosh games and i do not think he would have made any difference in that ucla game,which i also saw--other fans who booed lewie were nyc people who wanted him to stay in nyc at st.john's--tex was not a good post-up player-he had small hands for a 6-9 player-keith h. was ineffective in the post vs lewie(as was everyone else)but he was effective against most of our opponents(i saw most of his sophomore and junior games,and some of his senior ones)

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[> [> [> Re: Ron Teixeira -- sader1970, 19:03:41 07/06/04 Tue

There have been multiple MSGs over the years. The UCLA game was NOT the first at a "new" MSG.

I, too, recall that HC had a quick, very short lead over the then #2 team in the country. I also recall our guards, in particular, outplaying All Americans Hill Street Blues Warren and Lucius Allen because we breezed through their full court press and scored more points. I also recall Keith ready to mix it up with Alcindor and, to use a hockey theme, I was of the impression that Keith would have been happy to have been ejected from the game if he took Alcindor with him. Big Lew was just too big. He scored at will over Hochstein because as tough as Keith was, he just didn't have the height to stop the Alcindor "Sky-hook" (precious few players did whether in college or the pros). If you recall the papers the next day, big Lew was quoted as really perplexed and disapponted by all the boos he got in his "hometown" game. Guess he wasn't smart enough to realize those boos were coming from hundreds of Crusader fans who made the trek from Worcester.

The bottom line to the game was that every time HC made the game close, the Bruins were able to get the ball into Alcindor who popped a short hook shot over Hochstein. Though I don't have the stats, I'm sure that if someone could find them, Alcindor scored more points than the winning differential. We lost by 23 but Alcindor had something in excess of 30 points and maybe closer to 35. I don't recall Keith scoring much at all. That's why, all the talk at the time was how angry we were that Ron T. didn't play and wasn't even on the team. No one thought he would have outplayed Lew but almost to a person, people who saw the game and knew Ron's potential felt he would have held Alcondor's scoring down and probably would have scored more than Keith.

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira -- hc69, 14:27:31 07/01/04 Thu

It was an outstanding freshman team, with Texeira, Suidet, Jerry Foley, Jimmy Moore, and Chuck Mullane. Their sophomore year, it was assumed that Ron and Ed would start, and the 6'4" Hochstein, who was a year older, would move to small forward, since he could take it to the basket and drew a lot of fouls. But Donovan left Hochstein at center and put Suidet at shooting forward -- he was a great shooter and would have loved a 3-point line -- and Donovan's offense was Suidet throwing it up from anywhere, or pounding the ball into Hochstein and hoping he'd get fouled. That left Ron, who had been a post-up player his whole life, on the outside. Even when other teams went man against us and guarded Ron with a smaller, quicker forward, Donovan rarely tried to take advantage by posting Ron up. As an offensive player Ron regressed his sophomore year, not surprising since at that time there were very few 6'9" players who could play facing the basket. It was a frustrating experience, and he decided it wasn't worth it.

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[> [> Re: Ron Teixeira -- another take on the situation, 15:19:01 07/01/04 Thu

When I was at the Cross, Ron was still there but no longer playing. The rumors were that Donohue had somehow screwed him and that screwing set our recruiting efforts in the minority community back for a decade. I have no first hand knowledge of this but that was the story and there were very few black ball players after Ron for a long time (Stan Grayson being an obvious exception). Anybody else recall this spin on the situation?

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira -- timholycross, 15:38:03 07/01/04 Thu

There were very few black people, PERIOD, until Stan Grayson's class came in. After that, more minority players started coming in. Donohue left in 1972 and, in retrospect, was looking to get out of HC a couple of years before; his last 1 or 2 recruiting classes were basically leftovers.

The big problem w/Donohue was that the Teixeira thing really hurt him in Greater Boston as Ron Perry, then the Catholic Memorial coach, pretty much refused to deal with him again. Perry, who later became the HC Athletic Director, had a great program and was quite influential in the area.

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira -- Vingt Cinq, 19:14:55 07/01/04 Thu

Ron "resigned" from the team after the first two games of the '67-'68 season---his junior yr.--a 73-70 ot road win at Dartmouth and a 78-55 road loss at Yale, whose tallest player, Ed Goldstone, was 6'5". Listened to the Yale game as an HC student and can still hear the words of Bob Gamere during the broadcast "...rebound up,no good..rebound up, no good..rebound up & good and a foul on the Crusaders.." We were devastated on the offensive boards by a much smaller team and posted only 55 points (lowest total of the season)
in a yr. when we averaged almost 78 ppg. I suspect that
the locker room scenario after the game was not pleasant and that may have precipitated Ron's departure. That departure has always been cloaked in mystery in terms of the words exchanged and the true motivations.

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[> [> Re: Ron Teixeira -- sorry crusader24, what's your background again?, 09:26:48 07/02/04 Fri

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira -- Crusader24, 21:32:20 07/01/04 Thu

Let's tell it like it was about Ron Texiera. The kid had no guts at all. Hochstein intimidated him because Keith was everything Ron was not.

Donohue tried to make Ron tougher and refused to cater to this 6'9" pansy. Ron wouldn't hear of it and did the same thing all cowards do....HE QUIT.

Short story. No more to it.

When he bulked up to 275 there were rumors that he might try football. That was a joke. He wasn't tough enough for basketball much less fighting it out on the line of scrimmage.

Smart kid. Good student. Just totally lacking in guts and toughness. No heart at all.

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[> Re: Ron Teixeira/Hochstein -- sader1970, 15:07:53 07/07/04 Wed

Well, guts or no guts, great playing ability or lack thereof, both of these guys seemed to have turned out alright. One of my classmate/buddies was in the same Italian class with Ron and he was a good student, one of the best in the class. Don't know how he uses that Italian nowadays.

The HC on-line directory lists Keith as the principal of a middle school in Massachusetts and Ron is president and owner of Advanced Water Quality Systems, also in Massachusetts.

We'll never know what could have been.

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