9 in Basketball Weekly’s national rankings with a 29-2 record. Dunbar, which lost in the Baltimore City title game to cross-town Lake Clifton in double overtime, finished No. Later that season, Calvert Hall was upset in the Alhambra Catholic Invitational and finished ranked No. The two teams played a classic game at the Towson Center that lasted two and a half hours, and at the end of it, Calvert Hall won in triple overtime, 94-91. There was definitely no love lost between these schools.īy the end of 1981 season, the rivalry between Calvert Hall and Dunbar (located in East Baltimore) had grown heated. Talented players began to choose between leaving the inner-city and attending a school like Calvert Hall or staying at one of the public schools. Through the 1970s came charges of Catholic schools leading an exodus of mainly black athletes out of the inner-city. After the incident, the parochial schools pulled out of the MSA and formed their own catholic league. In 1969, a black Dunbar student hit a white student from one of the parochial schools at a sporting event. Calvert Hall (a boys Catholic school in Towson, Md.) and other parochial schools in the area were part of the MSA then. The backdrop to this story started in 1968 when the Baltimore riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. While the documentary focuses on the humanitarian aspects of the game, we present facts about the basketball team and its on-court performance against the backdrop of this fascinating story about arguably the greatest high school basketball team of all-time. The documentary is about triumph in the face of real-life tragedy and overcoming extreme odds to see four players off the same high school team reach their dreams of the NBA. Other ACC players named to the first team are: Clemson linebacker Barrett Carter, Clemson defensive tackle Tyler Davis, Miami safety Kamren Kinchens, North Carolina State long snapper Joe Shimko and Florida State defensive end Jared Verse.On August 8, ESPN released a 30 For 30 documentary titled “Baltimore Boys” about the special high school basketball teams at Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Md.
He averaged 74.5 yards per game and scored six touchdowns.įour other SU players were named: linebacker Marlowe Wax and kick returner Trebor Pena are on the second team and offensive guard Kalan Ellis and defensive end Caleb Okechukwu are on the fourth team. Gadsden paced Syracuse in receiving yards with 969, good for sixth in the ACC and the most for any tight end in the country. Syracuse tight end Oronde Gadsden is one of 15 Atlantic Coast Conference players named to the Preseason All-America team by Phil Steele in his annual season preview magazine. He played 12 seasons in the league and scored more than 18,000 points in his career.īing later became a successful business owner and served as mayor of Detroit from 2009-13. Syracuse finished 22-6 and Bing averaged 28.4 ppg.īing was selected by Detroit as the second overall pick in the 1966 draft and he won the 1967 NBA Rookie of the Year. As a senior, Bing led SU to the NCAA Tournament, playing for a team that averaged a school-record 99 points per game. Bing helped the Orange to the National Invitational Tournament in his first year on the varsity. The Schwartzwalder Trophy previously was handed out to the winner of the Syracuse-West Virginia football game, beginning in 1993.īing made an immediate impact at Syracuse as fans began to attend Bing's freshman team games in greater numbers than the varsity games. Schwartzwalder's name is featured on a trophy presented annually to a single SU football player who exemplifies on-field ability and leadership skills. A date will be named after the schedule is released. Bing will be celebrated during an undetermined Atlantic Coast Conference basketball game. 23 during Syracuse's football game against Army at the Dome. The Ring of Honor was established in 2020. Others in the Ring of Honor are Jim Boeheim, Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little, Roy Simmons Jr.
Hall of Fame football coach Ben Schwartzwalder and 1960s basketball standout Dave Bing will be the latest to have their names featured on the Dome's inner facade. 8-SYRACUSE - Syracuse University announced Thursday that two legendary figures in Orange athletics will be honored in the university's Ring Of Honor at the JMA Wireless Dome during the 2023-24 school year.
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