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...BAGGETT Green...
...basketball squad that averaged 6 ft. 5. The Oilers were so slick they won the National Amateur Athletic Union championship that year and five of them, picked for the U.S. Olympic squad, helped rout the champions of 23 nations at Berlin. Last week it looked as if Al Baggett's Buffaloes were headed in the same direction...
Like most Southwest and Rocky Mountain fives, West Texas State uses the spectacular "fire-engine" offense (a helter-skelter drive toward the scoring zone). In fact, Coach Baggett's system can be summed up in his one pet plea: "Boys, don't bother passing to anybody-just pass it at the basket." For defense, his galloping giraffes don't give a hoot. They just rely on "Long Taw" Charlie Halbert. 6 ft. 10, who hangs around their opponent's basket, bats out sure goals by simply reaching...
...like tall boys," says Baggett, 6 ft. 4 himself and no mean basketball player when he was a student at Ouachita College in Arkadelphia, Ark. "And we don't have to look far in our part of the country." To scotch any suggestion of ivory-hunting, he points out that three of the boys in his starting line-up live within 100 miles of the college campus; the other two. who hail from Malta Bend, Mo., came to West Texas State because their uncle is a caretaker there...
...nine years he has coached the Buffaloes, Al Baggett has never had a starting line-up that averaged less than 6 ft. 3. "It takes three times as much work to develop a tall player as it does a short one," says he, "but when you've finished you have something." Already branded for next year's freshman team...