Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most versatile player to become eligible since Oscar ("the Big O") Robertson eight years...
Unlike the Big O, the Big E was assigned by the Rockets to fight it out beneath the backboards, where the Greco-Roman infighting has undone many a rookie. "Elvin, don't go in there and get yourself hurt," cautioned the San Francisco Warriors' Nate Thurmond...
...Big E recalls the days when as a gawky youngster in Rayville, La., he spent long hours in his backyard shooting a small rubber ball through a bottomless wash bucket. He was always dreaming of his idols, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, and today he talks of little but how "great, just great" it is to be playing against them...
...chose to turn pro right away rather than mark time by playing on the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Besides, as a family man who now lives in fashionable La Jolla, Calif., with his wife Erna (the Middle E) and his year-old son Elvin Jr. (the Little E), the Big E had to think about Green Power-that $400,000 four-year contract he signed with the Rockets...
This season fans are glad-handing Hayes outside the stadium in great numbers. They are tearing down goal posts and marching on downtown Columbus chanting, "We're Number 1!" For Woody is a big winner again; with a 50-14 victory over Michigan, he rounded off a 9-0 season record, earned the right to meet the University of Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Hayes' reaction to the A.P. football poll which now ranks Ohio State the nation's top college team: "We deserve...