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</html>";s:4:"text";s:18159:"More About Us. Found inside â Page 160A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts Robert D. Bradley ... University of Nevada 139 DET Alex Wynn, Dartmouth College 140 BOS Tom Little, Seattle University 141 CIN Bob Mabry, Rio Grande College 142 SEA Claude Virden, ... The individual camp is for boys only, age 10-17. Powered by Tumblr. Clarence “Bevo” Francis went to Wellsville High School, where he was coached by Newt Oliver. The University of Rio Grande men&#x27;s basketball program has announced its 2021 summer camp and shootout schedule. By halftime, he had 43 points. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Prior to the tournament, however, Bevo sprained his ankle badly. RSC Basketball Championship Pairings Show: Feb. 17 LIVE at 6:00 pm ET M. Basketball Sat, Feb. 6, 2021 Men&#x27;s Basketball drops home contest to University of Rio Grande Found inside â Page 53It won't be surprising to note that Blumenthal also had a role in the integration of college basketball in Texas. Starting in 1959, Blumenthal began to send black ... Pan American University in the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg. University of Kentucky players were involved, too. Vaqueros need (s) to win by the end of the game or match. Simple Things theme by Dan Hauk. According to Barney McCoy, who created the documentary on Bevo, “Within days, reporters from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations descended on Rio Grande College looking for every possible detail on Francis." Utah Valley vs UT Rio Grande Valley: College Basketball Betting Lines, Odds and Trends - February 26, 2021. This was the mid-1980’s. Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public university in Alpine, Texas.The main campus is the primary institution of higher education serving the nineteen-county Big Bend region of far West Texas.Branch campuses, branded as Rio Grande College, are located in Del Rio, Uvalde, Eagle Pass, and Castroville. Men&#x27;s intercollegiate competition is available in basketball, baseball, cross-country, track, and soccer. Martin recalled to the Houston Rockets. This is a book that I wrote and published about the basketball team at Rio Grande College in Ohio that I was coach of in the early fifties. They continued to feed Bevo until he finished with an incredible record of 116 points. The official box score of Men&#x27;s Basketball vs Rio Grande on 12/2/2020 Men&#x27;s Basketball vs Rio Grande on 12/2/2020 - Box Score - Grace College Athletics Skip To Main Content I reality, I must admit that I hadn’t heard, thought or learned much about him until recent years. Single tickets for the Texas Longhorns vs. University of Texas-Rio Grande game have an average price of around $21.00. Born on his family&#x27;s farm in Hammondsville, Ohio, he became one of the most prolific scorers in college basketball history during his career at Rio Grande College (now known as the University of Rio Grande), topping over 100 points on two occasions. This collection represents an important contribution to music studies and spans bluegrass as a genre from its beginnings to the present. Found insideIn it, a 6-foot-9 Rio Grande College basketball player named Bevo Francis has just released a shot against Hillsdale (Michigan) College and there are three players guarding him. Two players are glued to his right side, one is glued to ... Sep. Sep 3 | 1 pm. Nick Bromberg. The school was on the verge of bankruptcy and closing its doors. Buy tickets for Women&#x27;s Volleyball vs Taylor on September 1, 2021 at 7 pm. Please try again. REGULAR-SEASON RECORDS (updated 3/24/08) INDIVIDUAL RECORDS SCORING Most Points, Game: 113, Clarence &quot;Bevo&quot; Francis, Rio Grande (Ohio) vs. Hillsdale (Mich.), 1954 (38 FGs, 37 FTs) (I) After the defeat, Rio only had one day to prepare for the defending ACC Champions, Wake Forest. By the end of the 1952-53 season, the Rio Grande Redmen (today they are the Red Storm) finished 39-0 and sold $15,000 worth of tickets, which helped pay the faculty and keep the school alive. More About Us. In each of the “Gardens”, the Redmen drew packed houses of 13,000, as fans from all over the country wanted a glimpse of Bevo. Found insideRIO GRANDE COLLEGE Alumni of Rio Grande College in Ohio played a game that lasted 125 hours. Each team had 15 players, and five-man squads played in four-hour rotations. The White team defeated the Red 10,752â10,734. 10. After Rio’s 40-game winning streak (they won their first game of the season) was ended by Adelphia at Madison Square Garden, Bevo scored 41 points (tying a Boston Garden record) in the school’s first “big” win by defeating Providence, 89-87. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. His name was Bevo Francis. Are Texas Longhorns vs. University of Texas-Rio Grande tickets sold out? With less than five minutes to go, Bevo had 80 points. Members of the 1968-69 men’s basketball team – the first to call the building their home – will be introduced in between games of the twinbill, which gets underway with the women’s contest at 1 p.m. I used an article written by Bernard Rogers McCoy on November 1, 2008. The opponent was Hillsdale College from Michigan, and the game was played in front of a sold-out, energized crowd at Jackson (OH) High School. Saint Xavier VS Rio Grande. Lyne left Rio Grande in 1930 for a similar position at Defiance College, but returned to Rio two years later as the school’s director of physical education and a professor of history. . Think about this for a moment and put yourself in this situation:  38 boys in a school on the verge of bankruptcy, in a tiny little country town in Southwestern Ohio, with one winning season in all their years of collegiate competition…..and Newt Oliver came in and told them that Rio Grande would be playing in the Garden in a year, and that Bevo Francis would lead the country in scoring. This was about to change. Their were 38 boys in the school when Bevo arrived. Found inside... in a single basketball game would seem to be an insurmountable recordâexcept for college basketball's Clarence (Bevo) Francis of Rio Grande (Ohio) University, who put up 113 points against Hillsdale College on February 2, 1954. LAS VEGAS -- — Donnie Tillman and Wilfried Likayi scored 12 points apiece and New Mexico State cruised to a 77-61 win over UT-Rio Grande Valley on Thursday night at the Western . This was a very small school that went on to win against large division one schools. At the time, college basketball throughout the country was struggling with attendance in the wake of major gambling scandals. Heck, even if you are familar with the story, read on. M. 8:00PM EDT. Found inside â Page 152Fratello, Michael Robert "Mike" "The Czar" rolled at tiny Rio Grande College in Ohio in September 1952. Newt Oliver, his fiery high school basketball coach, became Rio Grande hoops mentor in 1952 and made the six-foot nine-inch center ... Our staff serves the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the community at large by producing radio stories that inform, educate and enlighten our listeners. August 20, 2021. [citation needed]Named for former Texas governor and Civil War Confederate general . vs. Lawrence Tech. Found inside â Page 138Two of the players Steinbrenner signed were Bill Spivey, the former Kentucky All-American, and Bevo Francis, a one-time college basketball superstar who had once scored 113 points for Rio Grande College. Unfortunately, neither player ... Winona Lake, Ind. By the end of the third quarter, Bevo had 74 points. At Rio Salado College, you&#x27;ll get a quality education at a price you can afford. |. Found inside â Page 440Suggested Reading Until recently , no adequate history of the University of Rio Grande existed . Three earlier efforts do contain considerable factual information : Perry Daniel Woods , " The First Fifty Years of Rio Grande College ... As he became a national figure, he was also paid for personal appearances and speaking engagements. He recently turned 78 years old. 5 college football teams poised to take a step back in 2021. If you aren’t familiar with this story, read on. Stats Dec 5, 2020 Levi lifts Texas Rio Grande Valley past Texas A&amp;M-CC 62-59 . The latest stats, facts, news and notes on Marek Nelson of the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Found inside â Page 134Rio Grande won all 39 games that season, and Francis averaged 50.1 points per game, including 116 points on 9 January 1953, against Ashland Junior College, bringing the school national acclaim. After the season, the National Collegiate ... The UT Rio Grande Valley basketball coach is the second active Division-I coach to pass away this season. It was practically a tiny, beat-up, barn with a gym floor and basketball goals. On 4/1, the Rio Grande varsity basketball team lost their away conference game against Manzano (Albuquerque, NM) by a score of 59-19. Texas Rio Grande Valley put up 49 points in the second half, a season high for the team. The many days and nights of celebrations at the Paul R. Lyne Center resonate in the memories of hundreds of athletes throughout the country,” said Jeff Lanham, Rio Grande’s current athletic director. Sep 2 | 3 pm. [citation needed]Named for former Texas governor and Civil War Confederate general . Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public university in Alpine, Texas.The main campus is the primary institution of higher education serving the nineteen-county Big Bend region of far West Texas.Branch campuses, branded as Rio Grande College, are located in Del Rio, Uvalde, Eagle Pass, and Castroville. They currently have an average of 71.4 points per outing (187th in college basketball) while hitting 38.6% from the field. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. View NCAA Men&#x27;s College Basketball betting odds, lines and player stats for the game between the New Mexico State Aggies and the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros on Tuesday, 3/2/2021. Categories: Community Events. The Texas-Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros (often referred to as the Rio Grande Vaqueros or the UTRGV Vaqueros) is a collegiate athletic program that represents the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The Bevo story is one of the great stories in college basketball history, and I will provide an abbreviated version of it, as books have been written on him, a film documentary was created (by Barney McCoy - who provides great detail in this video piece), a link on the Rio Grande web site (www.rioredstorm.com) - within the Athletics portion of . According to Barney McCoy, “College basketball was reeling from a gambling scandal when Oliver was hired….A year earlier, 32 players from seven schools had been accused or convicted of taking cash and shaving points in 86 basketball games,” said the Bevo Francis biographer. Single tickets for the Texas Longhorns vs. University of Texas-Rio Grande game have an average price of around $21.00. / Sam Wasson/Getty Images Today&#x27;s slate of NCAA college basketball games includes a clash between the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros and New Mexico State Aggies. (Ashland was a junior college). Found inside â Page 76But back in the early 1950s , Francis and his school became synonymous with college basketball scoring records . When Clarence â Bevo â Francis enrolled at Rio Grande in Jackson , Ohio , in 1952 , the school had only ninety - four full ... A game after he went off for 22 points in an 116-51 win over Dallas Christian, Laquan Butler leads the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros (9-4) on the road against the Utah Valley Wolverines (7-9) on Friday, February 26, 2021. Juanita Dailey, a Francis biographer, wrote: "He was just married, he had this young baby and somebody knocking at your door at all hours. The team&#x27;s current identity was established after the University of Texas at Brownsville and the . Obviously, the players got a laugh out of that one. The NCAA and NABC (National Association of Basketball Coaches) passed a new ruling that said, in essence, that NCAA statistical records were to be counted only against four-year (bachelor degree granting or above), accredited colleges or universities. 2021 Girls State Basketball Championships 5A Regions 3 &amp; 4. Men&#x27;s Tennis. RIO GRANDE, Ohio — University of Rio Grande men&#x27;s basketball head coach Ryan Arrowood has announced his recruiting class for the upcoming 2021-22 season. Found insideA Basketball Addict's Autobiography Martin Groveman. team that we competed against, however, ... Playing at tiny Rio Grande College, Bevo scored an incredible one hundred points in one game and averaged approximately sixty points. “When the facility was erected in 1970, it was considered state-of-the-art and it remains a pillar for events throughout all of our community.”. He was a country boy who fell in love, got married and had a son at an early age - before he entered college at Rio Grande. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - New Mexico&#x27;s two biggest college football teams are going head-to-head in Albuquerque Saturday night. Together, Newt Oliver and Bevo joined Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters, as Head Coach and star player, to Coach and play for the Boston Whirlwinds for a 130-game barnstorming tour against the Globetrotters. In addition, I used information provided from current Rio Grande Head Coach Ken French. And that is precisely what the Lobos did on a hot Saturday evening in front of 28,470 fans at University Stadium, with a 34-25 victory to move to 2-0 on the season. On the team was one Bevo Francis that holds the one game scoring record of 113 points. TicketCity offers our guarantee, competitive prices and a huge selection of tickets. Tournament Game. The RedStorm have added guards Cody Lantz (Shelby, OH) and Luis Herrera (Puerto Plata, D.R. Found inside â Page 94On February 4, 1954, Clarence "Bevo" Francis of Rio Grande College set the all-time college basketball scoring record by pouring in 1 13 points against Hillsdale College. Francis may be little known, but he was no flash in the pan. “I can still see Coachman (Rio Grande head coach Art Lanham) – the excitement and the pleasure of having an arena that we could call home was written all over his face.”, Copyright © 2017 - 2021 University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College | 1.800.282.7201, University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College. Today, Bevo lives in Wellsville, Ohio, with his wife, Jean. UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros. His passion and enthusiasm has generated great interest within Small College Basketball circles. Counting all games in 1952-53, Bevo Francis averaged 50.1 points per game in a perfect 39-0 season. This “official” record still stands today as the highest single game total in college basketball history. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. JANUARY 15 • ASSOCIATED PRESS. Play Video. After he left Rio Grande College he toured with the Harlem Globetrotters for several years before locating in Springfield, Ohio. College Basketball Coaches We&#x27;ve Lost. Newt Oliver lives in Springfield, Ohio, with his wife, Maxine. Are Texas Longhorns vs. University of Texas-Rio Grande tickets sold out? Found inside â Page lxBEVO FRANCIS He scored 116 points in Ð° Ð´Ð°ÑÐµ lor Rio Grande College of Ohio against Ashland (KyJ Junior College on Jan. 9, 1953. By the third shot, I knew I was on to something Special I didn't know 1 was going to score 1 16 points, ... Albuquerque, NM 87125-0704. Ultimately, this would be important for the team’s records and Bevo’s scoring exploits, but there would be a real challenge…..read on. Found insideClarence âBevoâ Francis played for a small Ohio school named Rio Grande Collegeâso small that even when they excelled, they didn't play any home games in their gym (as it could hold just 200 spectators). In the 1952â1953 season, ... Groundbreaking ceremonies took place on May 12, 1968 and just under two years later, the Lyne Center became a reality. We ended up having a meal with Coach John Lawhorn at the Bob Evans in town (Rio Grande is the home of Bob Evans). “There was a tremendous sense of pride in finally having a home and not having to ride a bus just to practice,” said Charlie Baker, then the starting point guard for the Redmen. Only Newt was serious. Unfortunately, Coach Newt Oliver and Rio Grande’s President Charles Davis had serious disagreements, and Newt left Rio Grande. WAC Reaches New, Expanded Media Rights Agreement with ESPN. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Vaqueros need (s) to win by the end of the game or match. Meanwhile Bevo Francis was trying to juggle a wife, son, school and life as a national celebrity, and decided to move onto professional basketball. UTRGV Athletics Graduates 19 After Summer Semesters. We&#x27;re dedicated to maintaining a tradition of excellence by supporting our students with personalized counseling and resources, offering an affordable tuition rate, and keeping our class schedules flexible so you can take your classes on your time. Please try again. They earned $50,000 in ticket sales, which accounted for a quarter of the school’s operating budget and helped save the school from closing. UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros. 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