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...University of Kentucky's tall and terrifying basketball team (record: 33 wins, two defeats) ambled nonchalantly onto Madison Square Garden's polished floor. Their coach, heavy-jowled Adolph Rupp, hadn't even bothered to get a scouting report on the enemy team. Kentucky was dangerously cocky-with the N.C.A.A. championship hinging on the game. And before anybody had a chance to work up a sweat, Kentucky had scored 13 points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...time the score was 41-24, Macauley had scored as many points as the whole N.Y.U. team put together. He had also guarded and faked the shoes off N.Y.U.'s vaunted Center Adolph Schayes. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard (Jake) Cann twice pulled Schayes out of the game, pointedly ignored him on the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way to Win | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Leading the parade will be Coach Adolph Samborski's 20-man squad of Varsity baseball players. The Crimson nine leaves Sunday for the already-green fields of the South, and whether it is victorious or not, it will return groggy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Infiltrate South For Vacation Imbroglios | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...league baseball teams are finishing up a month of training in sunny southern climes and preparing to head north, Harvard's varsity nine is rounding out its sunny spring training--all one week of it--and getting set to head in the opposite direction. Sunday morning will find Coach Adolph Samborski's squad on the way towards Dixie for its annual spring tour...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Rough Diamond | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

...clear cut division between a Varsity squad and Jayvee team has been made at the practice sessions thus far and it is probable that no such distinction will be made at all this season, for Coaches Adolph Samborski and Lloyd Harper are trying a new system of team management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samborski Drills Candidates as Unit; Madar Gets Crimson End Coach Job | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

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