IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
It's not often when two City 6 teams have players who share a surname that isn't something along the lines of Smith, Jones, Brown or Williams.
So when it became apparent that both Saint Joseph's and La Salle would be posting players by the name of Galloway in their lineups, we couldn't wait for the Hawks and the Explorers to square off (Saturday, 12 p.m., Palestra) so we could list their stats side-by-side.
We got even more excited (it really doesn't take much) when we saw that their numbers — particularly their shooting percentages — were nearly identically.
Below is the statistical tale of those two Galloways:
| RAMON | LANGSTON | |
| College | La Salle | Saint Joseph's |
| Uniform No. | 55 | 10 |
| Year | Junior | Sophomore |
| Position | Guard | Guard |
| Height | 6-3 | 6-2 |
| Weight | 175 | 200 |
| Hometown | Philadelphia | Baton Rouge, La. |
| High School(s) |
Freiere Charter Wm. T. Dwyer (Fla.) |
Christian Life Academy |
| Transfer From | South Carolina | — |
| 2011-12 STATS: | ||
| Games/Starts | 20/19 | 23/23 |
| Minutes/Game | 32.1 | 35.3 |
| Field Goals | 109-217 | 128-255 |
| Pct. | 50.23% | 50.20% |
| 3-Pt. FG | 53-113 | 62-133 |
| Pct. | 46.9 | 46.6 |
| Free Throws | 32-43 | 44-57 |
| Pct. | 74.4 | 77.2 |
| Rebounds/Game | 4.40 | 4.52 |
| Season High | 9 | 7 |
| Assists/Game | 2.90 | 2.48 |
| Season High | 5 | 6 |
| Steals | 28 | 27 |
| Blocked Shots | 3 | 16 |
| Points | 303 | 362 |
| Points/Game | 15.2 | 15.7 |
| Season High | 28 | 32 |
Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.
A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.
His favorite books growing up were the NBA Guide and the Baseball Encyclopedia, which was, for all intents and purposes, the Internet before there was an Internet.
He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at vetronb@phillynews.com.
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