Irish invited Stanford back for not one, but a two-game appearance during the 1937 December holiday season. Forced to play three games in four days in two cities, an exhausted Stanford team lost to Temple in Philadelphia, for its only loss during the two seasons of East Coast trips. Two nights later, in Cleveland, a rested Stanford team demolished a respectable Duquesne outfit by the unheard of score of 92–27, during which Luisetti scored 50 points. In his service league match-up in 1944 against former Stanford star and future five-time NBA All-Star Jim Pollard, Luisetti outscored Pollard, 32 points to 9. Ned Irish intended that Luisetti would become the cornerstone of the nascent New York Knicks franchise in 1946. However, due to damage to his heart caused by life-saving sulfa drugs during his bout of spinal meningitis, Luisetti was unable to play again. Notes References Basketball, a History of the Game, by Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated Press, 1997 The Game Changer: How Hank Luisetti Revolutionized America's Great Indoor Game, Author House, 2005 1916 births 2002 deaths All-American college men's basketball players United States Navy personnel of World War II American people of Italian descent Basketball players from San Francisco Forwards (basketball) Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Phillips 66ers players Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players American men's basketball players United States Navy officers