Word: alcindor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gallagher was a unanimous All-City selection in New York City his senior year. The only other unanimous pick from over 200 area schools that year was UCLA giant Lew Alcindor...
...that's the way it is when you're the champion. Lew Alcindor knows it; so does Vince Lombardi. And so, in his own league, does Bill Murphy...
...Texas Southern's schedule. Lewis obliged Morehead, and last year the 6-ft. 8-in., 238-lb. Hayes led Houston's Cougars to the semifinals of the N.C.A.A. playoffs before losing 73-58 to U.C.L.A. and its 7-ft. 1⅜in. All-America center, Lew Alcindor. Even then, Hayes outscored Alcindor 25-19 and beat him in rebounding...
Last week was more of the same-much more. Granted, Alcindor was not at his best: he had injured an eye in a game the week before, and his shooting percentage from the field-four out of 18-was unbelievably low. But Hayes had the range. In the first half alone he scored 29 points (out of his team's 46), with delicate jump shots and driving, twisting lay-ups. Only the long-distance accuracy of U.C.L.A.'s Lucius Allen, who scored 16 in the first half and 25 in all, kept the Bruins in the game...
Three times in the second half U.C.L.A. fought back to tie-at 54-54, 65-65 and 69-69. Hayes broke that last tie with two free throws; then, with 12 sec. left to play, he dropped into the backcourt, dribbled the clock away to sew it up. Said Alcindor: "We lost to a better team." And right now, anyway, a better...