Historical Question - Who are these referees ?

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by SamIAm

I found an accomplished college basketball player name Matty Begovich, associated with St. Johns listed as 6'5". Seems likely to be the big fella at the left side.

Wasn't he that corrupt Governor from Illinois?

[SamIAm]

Tom Lopes presents special award to Jim Lennon

[Adam]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Wasn't he that corrupt Governor from Illinois?

You're thinking of Mark Spitz.

[SamIAm]

Perhaps the front far left gent. Picture is a 1955 Bowman baseball card set #258 an umpire named John W. Stevens. John W. Stevens is the 10th listed President of CBOA - 1958-59. He is pictured in link below.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1955-55-BOWMAN-B...=item13527144e

[JPS]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Just heard back. No luck. Brooklyn Bob left Noo Yawk in '65 and moved to where I live. He said that several sure looked familiar but he can't put a name to 'em.

Thanks for checking into it. If it helps him remember, below is a listing of some of the officials who were prominent during this time (note that I assume this picture was taken circa 1948 since that was the first year there was a CBOA president).

This listing are the NCAA Championship game refs starting in 1939.

1939 - Lyle Carno, John Getchell
1940 - Gil MacDonald, Ted O'Sullivan
1941 - Wally Cameron, Bill Haarlow
1942 - Glenn Adams, Abb Curtis
1943 - Matty Begovich, Pat Kennedy
1944 - Paul Menton, James Osborne
1945 - Glenn Adams, Abb Curtis
1946 - Jocko Collins, Pat Kennedy
1947 - Hagan Anderson (also spelled Andersen), Pat Kennedy
1948 - Bill Haarlow, Gil MacDonald
1949 - Hal Lee, Tim McCullough
1950 - Lou Eisenstein, Ronald Gibbs
1951 - not listed
1952 - Lou Eisenstein, Cliff Ogden
1953 - Al Lightner, Shaw
1954 - Hagan Anderson, Dean

Other prominent officials from that time period that I know about include:

Jim Biersdorfer
Bowser Chest
Ike Craig
John DeMoisey
John Dromo
James Enright
Winton Moeller
Jammy Moskowitz
Jim Osborne
John Showalter
Dan Tehan
Fred Walters

Jon