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Article: Francis Walsh, 81, Northeastern hoop legend
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
- Author:
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Despite being cut from the Milton High School basketball teams as
a freshman and sophomore, Francis X. Walsh was undeterred.
"That kind of made me mad," Mr. Walsh, who was known as Inga,
said in a 1949 Globe story during his final season as Northeastern
University basketball captain, the same year the 6-foot-5 center was
named to the All-New England Team.
Mr. Walsh averaged 20 points per game that season, after which he
was signed to a one-year contract - for $3,500 - by the New York
Knickerbockers of the National Basketball Association.
Mr. Walsh, considered the first dominant basketball player in
Northeastern history and one of the original six members of the
university's athletic Hall ...
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