While at Hermitage High during the late 1950s, Gene Alley hoped to attend the University of Richmond on a basketball scholarship.
His father died when Alley was 2.
“My mother, I don’t know how she did it, raising four children,” Alley, who resides in the Richmond area, said Friday. The family didn’t have much money. No scholarship was offered by the Spiders.
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