Dapper Dan Game Turns Into Three

The Dapper Dan Roundball game, which usually features a Pennsylvania high school team playing a United States squad, has been switched to a three-game format for next Sunday.

The 12-player Pennsylvania team will play an Eastern USA team and a North all-star team will play a South team in the co-feature games. The North-South game will start at 1:45 p.m. and the Pennsylvania-Eastern U.S. game will follow, according to the sponsoring Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Dapper Dan club.

A noon preliminary game at the Civic Arena will match the Pittsburgh City League against a western Pennsylvania all-star team.

Now in its 22nd year, the Roundball game was the first all-star high school basketball game of its kind in the country. The United States leads Pennsylvania in the all-time series 17-5, with the last Pennsylvania victory coming in 1981. The U.S. won last year’s game 114-97 behind 20 points by Rodney Strickland, now a DePaul University freshman.

The Eastern U.S. all-star team includes 7-foot-1 center Dwayne Schintzius of Brandon, Fla., New York state player of the year Keith Robinson of Buffalo, and Baltimore Dunbar High School guard Karl James.

Schintzius was a fourth team Parade Magazine All-America selection after averaging 22 points and 13.5 rebounds per game. The 6-foot-9 Robinson, a Notre Dame recruit, averaged 30 points and 22 rebounds a game.