Digger Phelps on Fordham’s great 26-3 season 50 years ago
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He was just a 28-year-old kid that day, brash and confident but probably too young to know better. Just six years earlier he’d nearly attended embalming school but decided to take a shot at coaching basketball instead. The team he inherited had gone 10-15 the year before, though the good news (or the bad news)...