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...scored 24, with four assists and 23 rebounds. At the very last, his defensive play was the difference. Behind by only a point with 15 seconds to go, the Warriors still might have won if Barry had been able to see anything but Wilt looming between him and the backboard. Barry's hopeless shot sailed far off target, and the 76ers picked up another two points on a foul. Final score: Philadelphia 125, San Francisco 122, thus giving the 76ers their first championship and ending Wilt's eight-year frustration over the fact that he had never been...
...Harvard, sophomores Barth Royer and Bob Kanuth played strongly under the offensive backboard, but their efforts weren't enough to offset Johnson...
...N.C.A.A. championship-this year, next year or the year after. The question is how. One coach suggested raising the height of the baskets from 10 ft. to 12 ft.; that proposal was discarded when it was found that Lew can leap up and nearly touch the top of the backboard-13 ft. above the floor. Another coach facetiously plugged for sinking the baskets into the floor like golf cups. "That way," he said, "it should at least take him longer to reach over and stuff the ball in." A third alternative was tested by Southern Cal Coach Bobby Boyd when...
...with an eraser. If I missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro five effectively buried Kentucky's fast break with pinpoint control of their own backboard, inspired hustling and just plain scrappy play. The final score...
Carty put Alcindor on a crash training program. For openers each day, Lew had to jump up and touch a line on the backboard 15 times in a row. The line was 11½ ft. high. Next, Alcindor practiced "stuffing" shots-jamming balls into the basket from above. After that, Carty and Lew squared off for a game of two-man basketball: the winner was the first to score 20 points. "I jumped on him," admits Carty. "I did everything I could to try and rattle...