The 63 Loyola National Championship Team was known as the 1st university to start a majority of black players. The loner white starter was John Egan fron St. Rita. At the end of the game Loyola tried to control the ball for one final shot but Shingleton forced a jump ball against John Egan at 1:21 and it came down to which of the two 5-10 guys — the smallest men on a court of bounding, leaping kids — could control the tip.
It turned out to be Loyola, Miller grabbing the ball in a race with Tony Yates and the Ramblers stalled out until Hunter's final shot and Rouse's tremendous leap and tip-in. Loyola played the entire game without substitution. The five starters played the whole game.
Previously, the unwritten rule had been that no team could have more than two black starters. Loyola coach George Ireland had four. ("George didn't see color," Jack Egan, the team's lone white starter, said at Ireland's funeral in 2001. "He hated all of us the same.")
