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Left: Back row (l-r): Preston Archibald, Rod Dean, Mike Moffat, Herb Stan, Larry Danby, Chris Coulthard, Chuck Classen, Don Smith Front row (l-r): Jim Fletcher, Mike Cleary, Leigh Goldie, Pat Woodburn, Vince Mendicino, Gary Southworth.
Golden Hawks Men’s Basketball Team This 1970 photo (large at top) shows a Waterloo Lutheran University basketball game against the University of Western Ontario. Until 1973, athletics had no building of its own, and had to share space in the theatre auditorium with other campus groups, but the university made a name for itself in several sports, including basketball. The late 1960s and early 1970s were banner years for the university’s men’s basketball teams. In the 1960s, the men’s basketball team held the Ontario provincial title for five years in a row, before capturing the national title in 1968. In 1969, a rebuilding year for the team, the squad competed again for the national title, losing in the final to the Windsor Lancers. The men’s team came back to win the provincial championship in 1970, taking the OUA winning streak to seven years.
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reader submission (INSET PHOTO) This is a photo of the 1971 Golden Hawks men’s basketball team, which won the provincial championship and competed at the national championship held at Acadia University. The team also had two all-Canadian players: Rod Dean and Chris Coulthard. I was a co-manager, along with Chuck Classen, who was equipment manager for the Laurier fooball team for many years. — Preston Archibald ’71
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