Which players greatly exceeded expectations as Matt Gilroy has done for the current Terriers?
A. One would be Larry Davenport who became an outstanding scorer and a truly great player, but was overlooked because of Herb Wakabayashi and Mike Hyndman. Another was Paul Giandomenico, a walk-on who I learned about through a friend. Bob Murray was part of our very talented 1968-69 freshman class. He was a forward, but with so much talent at that position, Bob Crocker and I moved him to defense where he became the very solid and steady defensive-minded defenseman we needed. He was overlooked due to [higher-scoring] defensemen Bob Brown and Ric Jordan, but Bob had great hockey sense and was very smart. He came on like gangbusters for us. Q. Earlier this year, BU played Cornell at Madison Square Garden for the sold out Red Hot Hockey event. What are your recollections of the 1966 Holiday Festival at MSG when BU put some big numbers up against some top-ranked teams? A. That was the senior year of my first full recruiting class. We also had added Jack Parker, John Cooke, and Billy Riley a
