Word: breda
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...economics well: the four-year agreement will pay him some $500,000. Actually, it wasn't the money, says Bill. "I found that I really love the game," he explained, "and that I want to test myself against the best." Bill's old coach Willem van Breda Kolff, 44, who engineered Princeton's basketball renaissance for five years, is also leaving to confront the best. Next season he will take over as coach of the lackluster Los Angeles Lakers, who won 36 while losing 45 this season...
Tall & Talkative. All that recognition was almost too much for Princeton's Willem H. van Breda Kolff, 44, although he is the third winningest coach in college basketball. "Butch" van Breda Kolff quit Princeton in 1947 after three years to play pro ball with the New York Knickerbockers, gave that up after three seasons to become a coach - at Lafayette, Hofstra, and then Princeton. In 16 seasons, his teams have won 294 games v. 106 losses-a record topped only by Kentucky's Adolph Rupp and U.C.L.A.'s Johnny Wooden. Van Breda Kolff insists that Princeton...
What More? Van Breda Kolff insists that recruiting is easy at Princeton, which like all Ivy League schools does not give athletic scholarships. "I meet them, then let them stay with the boys in the dorms," says Butch. "It works. Good school, good ball, good kids, what the hell more could they want...
Frei's "journey of international understanding" was a first-class success. In Italy, he arranged for expanded trade and for technical assistance from Fiat, Marelli (electric motors) and Breda (railway equipment). In France, he picked up a $20 million line of credit, discussed access to French markets for finished and semifinished goods. "This would break all previous trade patterns imposed by France," said Frei. England agreed to consider sending its minister of overseas development to Chile to organize a plan for regional, Alianza-like development. West Germany discussed financial and technical aid for mineral studies in northern Chile...
U.C.L.A.'s defense will probably be a bigger problem for Princeton than Good rich's shooting. But the Tigers' ball-handling has improved a great deal since the Michigan debacle, and if things get too bad, Coach Bill van Breda Kolff can al-sides, Providence had one of the nation's best defensive teams, and look what Princeton did to them...