Identifier	Centennial_00134
Title	St. Ignatius basketball team 1927
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	1927
Subject (Topic)	Basketball players--California--San Franscisco; Basketball teams--California--San Francisco
Subject (Name)	Jesuits--California--San Francisco; St. Ignatius College (San Francisco, Calif.)--Basketball; Maloney, Jack; Rittore, Henry; Keane, Jack; Daugherty, Edward; Watson, Charlie; Casassa, Charles; Lynch, Don; Smith, Phil; Maher, William; Looney, Jack; Smith, Harry; Tyrell, Jimmy; O'Connor, Laurence; McCormick, Joe; McDonald, Rolph
Type	Image
Form/Genre	Photographs
Physical Description	1 photograph: black and white; 22 x 27 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Copyright Holder	Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	Loyola Marymount University Archives
Item/Call Number	Photographic prints 3D
Description	A black-and-white photograph of the St. Ignatius basketball team arranged in 3 rows in front of a tall fence. From handwriting on back of photograph, standing in the back row are Jack Maloney, Henry Rittore, Jack Keane, J. Daugherty, Charlie Watson, and Charlie Casassa; kneeling in the second row are Don Lynch, Phil Smith, William Maher, and Jack Looney; sitting in the front row are Harry Smith, Jimmy Tyrell, Captain Laurence "Red" O'Connor, Joe McCormick, and Rolph McDonald. They are wearing team jerseys.
Historical Background	Saint Ignatius Academy was founded in 1855 and became St. Ignatius College in 1859. The college adopted green and gold as their colors in 1927, the same year the basketball team were city champions. Their mascot was originally known as the "Grey Fog" and became the San Francisco Dons in 1932. Charlie Casassa, pictured in the back row, later joined the Jesuit order and became the tenth President of Loyola University. He was not only a great campus builder but also was the principal mover behind the affiliation and eventual merger with Marymount College. Fr. Casassa, S.J. served the university for over forty years.
Additional Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Project note	Centennial