UNIVERSITY HISTORY

Penn Plays Philadelphia Big 5 Basketball:
1956-1957 season

Standings:

Game results:

All games were played at the Palestra. Click on links to read the text of news articles about the games.

Date	Winner	Loser	Crowd
Dec 18	Temple 79	Penn 56	3,735
	Jay Norman had 22 points, 23 rebounds
Jan 9	St. Joseph's 97	La Salle 85	3,727
	La Salle had 11-point lead in 2nd half
Jan 16	Villanova 63	Penn 47	1,181
	Villanova jumped to 16-4 lead to start game
Jan 19	St. Joseph's 59	Villanova 51	5,659
	Al Griffith scores 19 points in losing cause
Jan 26	La Salle 84	Penn 73	2,323
	Explorers own boards with 69-28 advantage
Feb 6	Temple 81	Villanova 72	3,155
	Temple took 24-5 lead & never looked back
Feb 12	La Salle 63	Temple 61	3,696
	Alonzo Lewis (with 26 pts) engineered upset
Feb 20	St. Joseph's 79	Penn 71	1,542
	Dick Csencsitz has 26 points for Quakers
Feb 27	Temple 54	St. Joseph's 48	9,286
	The Owls gain a share of Big Five title
March 6	La Salle 75	Villanova 61	2,172
	La Salle's Bill Katheder leads with 26 points

Honors:

Big 5 First Team

Mel Brodsky (Temple)

Dick Csencsitz (Pennsylvania)

Dan Dougherty (St. Joseph's)

Kurt Engelbert (St. Joseph's)

Tom Garberina (La Salle)

Al Griffith (Villanova)

Alonzo Lewis (La Salle)

Jay Norman (Temple)

Ray Radziszewski (St. Joseph's)

* Rodgers was a first-team All-American, upping his scoring average to 20.4 points while doling out 6.4 assists a game en route to the Geasey Award.

NCAA Tournament:

No participants

National Invitation Tournament:

Temple 77, Dayton 66	at Madison Square Garden
Bradley 94, Temple 66	Final 4 at Madison Square Garden
Temple 67, St. Bonaventure 50	Final 4 at Madison Square Garden