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...more appreciative on the court than the glad-handing U.C.L.A. players. "I never permit a player to criticize a teammate," explains Wooden. "In fact, when a man makes a basket, I make him compliment the one who passed the ball or started the play. That way, I tell them, you'll get a pass again." Unlike most coaches, Wooden rarely scouts a rival team. "If we play our game as well as we can," he says, "we can beat an opponent no matter what he does. We let them adjust to us, rather than we to them...
Starting at center for the East, the baby-faced redhead beat Wilt Chamberlain on the opening tipoff, charged to the basket, gathered in a rebound and popped in the first two points. Moments later he banked in another jump shot. Then he quickly scored on a fast break, stole the ball and started yet another assault. Never letting up, the irrepressible Cowens led the East to a 104-84 victory and hustled off the Chicago court with the game's Most Valuable Player honors...
Against a 5-11 Columbia squad Saturday night in New York City, the cagers played one of their poorest games of the season. Neither the Crimson nor the Lions were able to find the basket with any frequency during the contest...
Statistically, the Columbia contest was a very poor showing for the Crimson. The cagers committed 24 turnovers during the game and shot only 36 per cent from the floor. The also could not find the basket on foul shots as they made 41 per cent of their attempts from the charity stripe...
...task of pacifying him, of explaining the situation, or occasionally making him see that he is asking for the impossible, may be both hard and unavoidable. A familiar classmate who rides his hobbyhorse into the office is likely to be attacked bodily, and dumped into a huge waste-paper basket near the telephone box, provided enough editors are present. The most exciting of all the morning interruptions can be caused by an angry business manager, who comes waving a printer's bill for extra work...