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RIP Dave Sollenberger
The father of Pardon My Take's @PFTCommenter and the Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger passed away on Tuesday.
Why am I posting about this on a GW Basketball message board?
Well, it turns out Dave was a member of the GW Basketball team (and also baseball?) in the mid/late 1960s.
Does anyone remember him on the team? Maybe GW69?
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Re: RIP Dave Sollenberger
Of courses I remember him. A 5'10" guard who played in 10 games on the 1966-1967 team that finished 6-18. He averaged 0.8 ppg and 0.4 4pg. Who doesn't remember him?
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Joe Lalli’s backup?
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The Other MG wrote:
Joe Lalli’s backup?
Yep. From the 66-67 media guide
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Re: RIP Dave Sollenberger
I do remember …….Joe Lalli quite well-What a blast from the past. He was the “man” on that horrific team.
Having said that I don’t remember a lot about the teams between 1965 and 69.I started paying more attention
after I graduated.Also I was no longer doing drugs!From 67 to when I left the school went -as did the culture
In general-from a sleepy backwater provincial commuter school to a place full of hippies ,anti-war protesters
A total sea change.A paradigm shift-exciting times.Basketball was on the back burner,if on the burner at all.
The school became alive.1945 to 1966 were of a piece-after that the world changed.It's changing again as I write this.
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Re: RIP Dave Sollenberger
I remember Joe lalli and Terry Grefe and lots of others, and have a vague memory of Dave S. (Ft. Myer etc.).
GWU '69.
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Grefe was a 6’2” forward! We had a pretty good shooter in Dick Ellis. With Babe McCarthy as coach, and an all-white team, we were very much a Southern Conference team . This was my freshman year, and Garland Pinkston was on our freshman team.