Eddie Burke STARTERS FOR CHAMPS 1971  SJ Prep Maurice "Mo" Howard Bill Truskey Tim Corlies Gene Opila Phil Martelli 1972  ST More Carl Kenty Ron Holmes Larry Sanders Emery Sammons Phil Johnson 1986 Drexel Michael Anderson John Rankin Casper Cooper Chris O'Brien Pat Rafferty Coach Burke's All-Stars ALL-CATHOLIC HONOREES 1969-77, 1993-99 * - Played in NBA FIRST TEAM 1970 John Jablonski  SJP 1970 David Grande  SJP 1971 *Maurice "Mo" Howard  SJP 1971 Bill Truskey  SJP 1974 Chub Edwards  STM 1977 Richard Furr  WC 1995 Tony Hayden  SJP 1998 Ashley Howard  SJP 1999 Kasim Holloman  SJP SECOND TEAM 1972 Carl Kenty  STM 1973 Emery Sammons  STM 1974 Enos Hill  STM 1975 John Faison  STM 1976 John Rush  BM 1977 Angelo Reynolds  WC 1996 Chris Hightower  SJP 1997 Chris Hightower  SJP 1998 Kasim Holloman  SJP THIRD TEAM 1972 Larry Sanders  STM 1973 Mark Lewis  STM 1974 John Faison  STM 1975 Carlton Hall  STM 1977 Dane Correll  WC 1994 Brian Pearce  SJP 1995 Tom Welsh  SJP 1999 Mike Wallin  SJP     ALL-CITY HONOREES SECOND TEAM 1999 Kasim Holloman  SJP THIRD TEAM 1977 Richard Furr  WC   ECC PLAYERS OF THE YEAR 1971 Len Hatzenbeller 1984 Richard Congo 1986 *Michael Anderson 1988 *Michael Anderson	Eddie Burke Tribute Page   Eddie Burke coached basketball for 30 seasons, 16 at Catholic League schools (three at alma mater St. Joseph's Prep, four at St. Thomas More, one apiece at Bishop McDevitt and West, seven again at SJ Prep) and 14 at Drexel University. In 1972 he pulled off quite the feat, winning CL titles in consecutive years at different schools and giving the CL a City Title triumph to boot. That story is here . . . -- --		SEASON BY SEASON League / Overall ST. JOSEPH'S PREP 1969: 9-7, 11-11 1970: 11-5, 16-7 1971: 13-3, 22-9 Total: 33-15, 49-27 ST. THOMAS MORE 1972: 13-3, 21-5 1973: 7-9, 10-11 1974: 10-6, 13-13 1975: 7-9, 12-14 Total: 37-27, 56-43 BISHOP McDEVITT 1976: 7-9, 10-14 WEST CATHOLIC 1977: 8-6, 18-9 DREXEL UNIVERSITY East Coast Conference 1978: 2-3, 13-13 1979: 6-5,18-9 1980: 4-7, 12-15 1981: 6-5, 14-13 1082: 7-4, 19-11 1983: 5-4, 14-15 1984: 10-6, 17-12 1985: 8-6, 10-18 1986: 11-3, 19-12 1987: 7-7, 14-14 1988: 9-5, 18-10 1989: 7-7, 12-16  1990: 7-7, 13-15 1991: 7-5, 12-16 Total: 135-74, 205-189 ST. JOSEPH'S PREP 1993: 1-13, 3-22 1994: 2-12, 8-17 1995: 7-7, 15-11 1996: 5-9, 8-14 1997: 7-7, 14-11 1998: 6-8, 12-13 1999: 7-7, 10-15 Total: 35-63, 70-103 TOTAL RECORD HS League -- 120-120 HS Overall -- 203-196 Drexel League -- 135-74 Drexel Overall -- 205-189 Total League -- 255-194 Total Overall -- 408-385 HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS 1971 SJP, 1972 STM CITY TITLE 1972 STM PLAYOFF BREAKDOWN Appearances Ended in  . . . Quarterfinals (4) 1969 SJP, 1970 SJP 1974 STM, 1997 SJP Finals (2) 1971 SJP, 1972 STM TOP 15 SCHOOL SCORERS LEAGUE PLAY Kasim Holloman 1999 24.4 Maur. "Mo" Howard 1971 21.6 Ashley Howard 1998 19.9 Bill Truskey 1971 18.5 John Rush 1976 18.1 John Jablonski 1970 17.6 Tony Hayden 1995 17.4 David Grande 1970 17.2 Kasim Holloman 1998 17.1 Carl Kenty 1972 15.6 Enos Hill 1974 15.3 Angelo Reynolds 1977 14.8 Richard Furr 1977 14.6 Chub Edwards 1974 13.9 Chris Hightower 1997 13.8 TOP 8 DREXEL SCORERS OVERALL Michael Anderson 1988 23.9 John Rankin 1989 23.6 Len Hatzenbeller 1981 21.8 Michael Anderson 1987 20.1 John Rankin 1988 19.6 John Rankin 1987 19.0 Bob Stephens 1979 18.9 Michael Anderson 1986 18.8

This story was written after Eddie coached the Prep to the 1971 Catholic League
championship . . .

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This story was written in 1986 after Eddie led Drexel to the East Coast Conference
championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament . . .

By Kevin Mulligan
  TOWSON, Md. -- This time, Drexel wasn't hampered by illness or injury, as in 1983 and 1984 East Coast Conference
Tournament losses.
  This time, a last-second whistle didn't end Drexel's season, as it did in 1985.
  This time, Drexel coach Eddie Burke's script was not rewritten by the uncontrollable.
  The Towson Center horn had sounded.
  Hofstra could score no more points.
  And there was Eddie Burke dancing what must've been the Havertown version of the Irish jig. His Dragons were the East
Coast Conference Tournament champions, 80-76 winners over a persistent Hofstra team.
  Drexel's eighth consecutive victory and 14th in its last 15 games also bagged the school's first NCAA Tournament berth,
which is awarded automatically to the ECC champion.
  ''I told you there wasn't going to be any horror stories this year," said Drexel forward Casper Cooper, who remembered
last year's first-round loss to Lehigh, in which Walt Fuller was whistled for a decisive foul with three seconds left. "I don't
want this night to end. It's the greatest feeling in the world. Got to be."
  The celebration raged long past 2 a.m. at the team's headquarters in nearby Hunt Valley, Md.
  "I don't know what to say," said senior co-captain Fuller, blinking back tears in a near-empty Drexel locker room. "This
means everything to me. It was a long, hard time coming, but the guys told me they wouldn't let me down, and they never
did. They never did all season. And now we're the champs. It's like a dream come true. It's hard to put into words."
  Not for Burke, whose Dragons (19-11) converted six of eight free throws in the final 1:32 and held Hofstra to one field
goal after the Flying Dutchmen (17-13) charged from a 69-60 deficit at 6:35 to tie it at 74 with 1:45 showing.
  "Fast Eddie" had no trouble reducing the meaning of Drexel's 19th victory - which ties a school Division I record set in
1982, when the Dragons lost to St. Joe's in their only other appearance in an ECC championship game - to the simplest
of terms.
  "Forget all that other stuff. We're in the bar pools, OK? " Burke said. ''Now, maybe every housewife in Delaware County
won't be talking Villanova. Now we have a team that they can pick and say, 'Damn, I got Drexel.' They'll probably throw
it back in and say they didn't take it out.
  "But hey, they're going to be talking about the Dragons, brother."
  Last night, the vocal 800-plus at Towson State University's Towson Center were trying to recover from watching the
Dragons.
  Drexel, behind 14 points from point guard extraordinaire Michael Anderson (21 points total), had everything go its way in
the first half but the whistles - Cooper and Chris O'Brien committing three fouls each - as the Dragons cruised to a 45-36
halftime lead.
  A Troy Stribling jumper and a John Rankin banker off a nifty bounce pass from Stribling, who was in for O'Brien,
boosted Drexel's pad to 55-44 with 15:06 remaining, at which point Hofstra seemingly realized the game was not getting
any longer.
  The Dutchmen used a pair of offensive rebounds - two of 18 Hofstra had for the evening, compared to Drexel's five - by
reserve center Steve Rebholz to fuel an 8-0 burst that trimmed the spread to 55-52 with 11:55 remaining. What followed
was a memorable finish, in which Drexel spread the lead back out to nine and then lost it before recovering to win.
Included were the following highlights:
  * O'Brien, the Dragons' steadying influence, fouled out with 4:36 remaining on a controversial call by referee Frank
Scagliotta that ignited more controversy when he sent Hofstra's Luke Murphy to the line to shoot a one- and-one with
Drexel up, 71-64. As a large section of Drexel supporters erupted in protest, Murphy made one free throw, before
Scagliotta and Stan Rote, hearing the commotion and seeing Drexel's coaches pointing at the scoreboard, realized they
had awarded the free throws on Hofstra's fifth team foul, one under the limit. The point was taken off the scoreboard
and Hofstra retained possession.
  * With Drexel leading, 72-64, at the 4:17 mark, Hofstra - aided by two ill- advised Stribling bombs and a Stribling
turnover - put together a 10-2 run to tie it at 74 heading into the final 1:45.
  * Pat Rafferty came up with the biggest rebound of his career after an Anderson miss on the Dragons' next possession.
Rafferty was fouled and made one of two to give Drexel the lead for keeps, 75-74, with 1:32 left.
  Rankin rebounded Murphy's 16-foot miss Hofstra's next time down, and the Dragons iced it at the foul line. Anderson
hit two, but Hofstra's Leroy Allen got those back. Then Stribling knocked down one of two at :26 for a 78-76 lead, and
following a Hofstra miss, Anderson kicked off the partying with two free throws with nine seconds remaining.
  On the free throws with 26 seconds left, Hofstra coach Dick Berg tried to ice Stribling by making an illegal substitution
and by ordering his players to keep criss-crossing from one side of the lane to the other until the referee handed Stribling
the ball.
  "They tried to freeze me, but I just took my time and knocked it (the first free throw) out," he said. "When I made
that, I knew we had it, up two. "
  "I thought that was really unfair to the kid," said Burke. "But I have great confidence in Troy. That's why I put him in
there. He made a couple bad plays, but that's the kind of guys we have. They make mistakes, they don't dwell on them
to complicate matters. Troy cottoned the first one and the second rolled on him a little."
  O'Brien watched the final 4:36, pacing the floor with a towel in his mouth, behind the Drexel bench.
  "I was going nuts inside, watching," he said. "But I said as long as we got the ball in Anderson's hands, we were in.
I've never been through anything so nerve-wracking in my life. I once thought I'd like to coach, but now, sitting out like
that, I don't think I could take it. To tell you the truth, I was going to hide under the bleachers, so I wouldn't have to
watch. "
  "We missed his senior leadership out there," said Anderson, who scored 21 points, took 8 rebounds, handed out 3
assists and made 5 steals to clinch unanimous MVP honors. "But there's something about this team. Somebody goes
down or out, we pick him up. We just knew we were going to do it."
  "It's tremendous, absolutely tremendous," said Burke. "When you attain goals in your life, it's just a real edifying
experience. Our goal was to win the league, and then we had to do it over again in the playoffs. And it's not an easy
thing. A turnover, a block/charge call, you're out. One and done. To do what this team did (rebounding from a 5-10
start) is a great, great accomplishment."
  Burke had trouble holding in the pride that comes with knowing his often-overlooked program finally was sharing
similar turf with the Big 5 - the NCAA Tournament.
  "That taste I had in '82 (making it to the conference title game) has always stayed with me," Burke said. "These guys
weren't here then, but they wanted to create their own thing, that's all. I don't itch about the Big 5 anymore. Each of
them (the Big 5 schools) have their own identity and we're trying to make our identity larger, and I think that's what
we've done. We'll be all across the country, in every newspaper in the United States. That's pretty good publicity for
being a pretty good basketball team."
  "Actions speak louder than words, and I think our actions spoke tonight," Fuller said. "We've shown what we can
do. We've shown we've got a good team, just like the other good teams in the city. I think they respect us, and I think,
because of people like Eddie, they were pulling for us."
  "I think it's going to be a blast," said O'Brien. "We'll enjoy it, but we'll also be out to show people some things. I'm
sure we'll have teams sticking us man-to-man for 96 feet.
  "One of my friends was asking what I'll do against a Duke or Syracuse or someone like that. I said, 'I'm just going
to give the ball to Michael (Anderson), and I don't care if it's Mark Price or Pearl Washington, he's going to shake
'em. They're going to be standing there after Michael blows by 'em saying, 'Where the hell did that guy come from?' "
  And maybe after the game O'Brien will tell them: Philadelphia.
  NOTES: Walt Fuller turned in another exceptional game at both ends, scoring 17 points. He averaged 16 points in
the three wins, kept Drexel alive with scads of key baskets and steals, yet was not named to the five-man all- tourney
team. Drexel's freshman center John Rankin, who scored 16 points with seven rebounds last night, joined MVP
Michael Anderson, Hofstra's Leroy Allen and Luke Murphy, and Bucknell junior guard Mack Allsteadt. Chris O'Brien
on Anderson and Rankin: "Some Big 5 schools might be in different situations right now if they had them. They really
missed the boats."

Recaps of victories in high school championship games . . . CATHOLIC LEAGUE 1971 At the Palestra SJ Prep 64, O'Hara 58   Maurice "Mo" Howard shot 12-for-18 and 5-for-8 for 29 points — a CL postseason record — and Bill Truskey mixed 13 points with 12 rebounds as The Prep prevailed. Two baskets by Howard and another by Truskey allowed the Hawklets to take a 49-46 lead and maintain control from there. Mike Arizin (22) and Ed Manning (17) led O'Hara. 1972 At the Palestra ST More 54, North 42   Carl Kenty collected 13 points, 19 rebounds and eight blocks as Tommy More made Eddie Burke the first coach in CL history to win back-to-back championships at different schools. Emery Sammons scored 16 points and Larry Sanders grabbed 13 rebounds. Barry Brodzinski (11) and Mike Kernan (10) paced North, whose fans pelted the court with four stink bombs during the game and with empty beer cans as the Golden Bears celebrated. CITY TITLE 1972 At the Palestra ST More 53, Bartram 45   The Golden Bears reaped 15 points from Ron Holmes, 12 from Emery Sammons and 11 from Carl Kenty and stormed to a 17-2 lead in the first 6:59. Larry Sanders claimed 15 rebounds. Joe "Jelly Bean" Bryant (18) and Roger Steve (15) paced Bartram, which missed 14 of its first 15 shots and committed six turnovers during that same span.

Below are the high school players who were coached by Eddie Burke over
16 seasons at St. Joseph's Prep, St. Thomas More, Bishop McDevitt, West
Catholic and SJ Prep again. The year indicates the player's final season. Most
were seniors. Some transferred and some were underclassmen who did not
play in the following season. 

SJ PREP Year Dave Bean 1969 Mike Fee 1969 Jim Gilligan 1969 Rich Giordano 1969 Rich Hinckley 1969 Jack Krutsick 1969 Bob Schultz 1969 Drew Calhoun 1970 Lee Casaccio 1970 Dave Grande 1970 Mike Dougherty 1970 Jim Farrell 1970 Tom Gorman 1970 John Jablonski 1970 Paul McGonigle 1970 Kevin McKeever 1970 Roger Sturm 1970 Bill Truskey 1971 Brian Kenney 1971 Gene McCarron 1971 Dave Glielmi 1971 Maurice "Mo" Howard 1971 Paul Opila 1971 Phil Martelli 1971 Dave Tague 1971 Tim Corlies 1971 Jamie Walsh 1971 ST. THOMAS MORE Year Brad Correll 1972 Carl Kenty 1972 Fran Flemming 1972 Joe Siravo 1972 John Gallagher 1972 Larry Sanders 1972 Mike Lewis 1972 Mike Regan 1972 Phil Johnson 1972 Ron Holmes 1972 Albert Jones 1973 Blane Newberry 1973 Emery Sammons 1973 Jim Feeney 1973 Mark Lewis 1973 Ron Seals 1973 Wilbert Lorick 1973 Al Clark 1974 Chub Edwards 1974 Enos Hill 1974 Jim Mazzola 1974 Lawrence Chandler 1974 Nick Martucci 1974 Tom Dixon 1974 Carlton Hall 1975 Edgar Carlis 1975 John Bryant 1975 John Faison 1975 Kevin Robinson 1975 Larry Chamberlain 1975 Mike Wilson 1975 Paul Bryant 1975 Reggie Jackson 1975 Robert Jacobs 1975 Ronald Boyd 1975

BISHOP McDEVITT 1976 John Rush 1976 Brian O'Donnell 1976 Steve Porth 1976 Ron "Rocky" Antoni 1976 Brian Glancey 1976 Howard "Pee-Wee" Mims 1976 Rich Smith 1976 Bob Hensler 1976 Tom Walsh 1976 Tom Casey 1976 Kevin Keane 1976 WEST CATHOLIC 1977 Angelo Reynolds 1977 Rich Furr 1977 Dane Correll 1977 Al Smith 1977 Jeffrey Hunter 1977 Jeff Myers 1977 Mike White  1977 Kevin Cassidy 1977 Barry Duncan 1977 Joe Walsh 1977 Bill Emery 1977 Bill Ellis 1977 SJ PREP AGAIN Year Bernie Coney 1993 Greg Klein 1993 Jason Lotkowski 1993 Jim Conley 1993 Brian Pearce 1994 Geoff Grab 1994 Mark Armstrong 1994 Pat Oldfield 1994 Pete Holmes 1994 Rob Burleigh 1994 Tom Regan 1994 Dennis Hart 1995 Matt Geschke 1995 Matt Strader 1995 Mike Gallagher 1995 Tom Welsh 1995 Tony Hayden 1995 Brendan Burke 1996 Danny Pommells 1996 George Paull 1996 Kevin McCloskey 1996 Randy Miller 1996 Chris Hightower 1997 Chris Sauter 1997 Joe Marsden 1997 John Dougherty 1997 Mike Pedicino 1997 Rob Welsh 1997 Steve Mullin 1997 Steve Walsh 1997 Ashley Howard 1998 Brian Finnegan 1998 David Jacquette 1998 Jermaine Slade 1998 Lamar Stokes 1998 Chris Haas 1999 Jamar Stokes 1999 Jimmy Martelli 1999 Kasim Holloman 1999 Kevin Wilson    1999 Mike Barker 1999 Mike Foelster 1999 Mike Wallin 1999 Paul Fischer 1999 Phil Martelli 1999 Ryan Cassidy 1999 Ryan Tyson 1999

Below are the players who were coached by Eddie Burke over 14 seasons at
Drexel University. The year indicates the player's final season. Most were
seniors. Some transferred and some were underclassmen who did not play
in the following season.

DREXEL   Name Year Ray James 1978 Joe Gore 1978 Tom Betley 1978 Joe Conahan 1978 Tony Weldon 1978 Bob Stephens 1979 Norm Buchanan 1979 Dave Broadus 1980 Mike O'Connell 1980 Joe Boback 1980 Mike Curley 1980 Rick Marshall 1980 Len Hatzenbeller 1981 Brian O'Loughlin 1981 Randy Burkert 1982 Mike Moran 1982 John Von Nieda 1982 Derrick Joynes 1982 Leslie Alston 1982 John Siorek 1983 Mike McIntyre 1983 Joe Petrone 1983 Brian Anderson 1983 Michael Mitchell 1984 Richard Congo 1984 Rob O'Loughlin 1984 Tom Rymal 1984 Rick Maccarone 1984

Charles Hickman 1985 Tom Pederson 1985 Gerald Gardner 1985 Doug Johnston 1985 Walt Fuller 1986 Chris O'Brien 1986 Troy Stribling 1987 Casper Cooper 1987 Pat Lafferty 1987 Rick Papes 1987 Michael Anderson 1988 Lou Bucchere 1988 John Rankin 1989 Mike Staveski 1989 Chris Arizin 1989 Jimmie Parker 1989 Rob Johnstone 1989 Todd Lehmann 1990 Jim Hardy 1990 Brian Raabe 1990 Tom Murphy 1990 John Caruso 1990 Arthur Clark 1991 Michael Thompson 1991 Dan Leahy 1991 Clarence Armstrong 1991 Jonathan Raab 1991 Jim Fenwick 1991 Mike Wisler 1991 Matt Attar 1991 Andre Daniel 1991 Matt Alexander 1991 Jim Rullo 1991