The Temple News, Temple University’s student newspaper, wrote a beautiful feature on the history of Rumph Classic.
Student reporter Ryan Mack writes, in part, “The tournament spread like wildfire, and people from around the area began wanting in on the action.
Soon the crowds were too big to fit in the old rec center and the venue had to change, going from Arcadia University to La Salle University and the Community College of Philadelphia. More teams began joining and what was at first just a community game became a full-fledged tournament.
‘When we started out, there was no expectation for it to take off or what it’s gotten to,’ Just Scott said. ‘We all grew up playing together, we wanted to keep our friend’s name alive. We just wanted to have a tournament to remember his name with the people that he played against. As it started to progress, you could kind of see that it was going to a different level.'”
You can read the complete story here!
