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...first it looked like a rout. While Russell controlled the backboards, covering Chamberlain like a shroud, Guard Sam Jones poured in 18 points in the first quarter, and the Celtics leaped into a 35-26 lead. Where was Wilt? All of a sudden, he was there and everywhere. He banked a hook shot high off the backboard, dropped a layup through the net. What's more, the rest of the 76'ers caught fire too; by half time they were ahead...
...futile gesture. The Celtics still led 110-109, and they had the ball. All they had to do was freeze, and the game would be over. So the incredible happened. Trying to flip the ball in bounds, Russell gasped with horror as it clipped a support wire on the backboard and caromed off court. There were still 5 sec. left and the 76'ers had the ball again, under the Celtics' basket. Quickly, they called time out. Coach Dolph Schayes outlined his strategy: Guard Hal Greer was to pass deep to Forward Chet Walker, set up a long...
Princeton took advantage of two Harvard penalties to grab its 2-0 lead in the first period. Mike Peterman scored first at 13:16 when Steve Cook's long pass bounced out to him off the Crimson backboard. Then Charlie McMillan made it 2-0 with just nine seconds left with a goal from the blue line...
...Power's Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps up and rams the ball through the hoop from above) and the "backward dunk" (the same thing, but backward over...
...only two points 101-99. Trying for the clincher. Forward Heinsohn fired and missed. Everybody converged on the basket, clawing for the rebound. Chamberlain reached up, but Russell got there first. "Flailing like a wheat thresher, he bounded high into the air, plucked the loose ball off the backboard and, all in the same motion, rammed it through the basket-"all the way up to my elbows." he said later...