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Loyola Ramblers 1963 Champs
$32
Description
Three years before Texas Western won the NCAA championship with an all-black starting lineup, Loyola University (Chicago) won the 1962-63 title and ushered in a new era of racial equality in college basketball. Coach George Ireland’s teams played as many as four African-American players at a time in an era when no team would play more than three. In the spring of ’63, Loyola faced an all-white Mississippi...
