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Against the Grain. The 75 colleges that were after Oscar called so often that his father had the phone disconnected three times. Oscar finally chose the University of Cincinnati, partly because it was fairly close to home, mainly because it played a big-time schedule that hit Madison Square Garden, where he could test his game against the very best. Even after he had landed Robertson, Cincinnati Coach George Smith fretted that someone would steal his protégé. "Every time Oscar left town," recalls Teammate Ralph Davis, who also moved up to the Royals from Cincinnati, "Smith would...
Robertson was a prize well worth hijacking. In high school he had ranked a solid 16th in a class of 171, but at Cincinnati his grades in business administration fell off to C; Oscar had come to play basketball. He kept at least four basketballs in his room. "When the dribbling stopped," says Davis, who lived next door, "you knew Oscar had gone to bed." By this time Oscar had come to have a paternally protective feeling about a basketball, once chewed out a university publicity man for casually bouncing a ball on the pavement. "You'll ruin that...
Robertson was still a sophomore when he was claimed, under the N.B.A.'s territorial rule, by the Cincinnati Royals, who then sat back nervously to see if he would graduate before the team went bankrupt. Robertson made it just in time, drove a hard bargain with the Royals, who realized that he could always peddle his spectacular talents to the showboating, all-Negro Globetrotters. His three-year contract calls for an annual salary of about $33,000, plus a percentage of the gate that should boost the total take to around...
Last summer Robertson married petite Yvonne Crittenden, a girl he had met in college and had been too shy to talk to on their first date. Yvonne teaches first grade in Cincinnati, which is almost more than her hero-worshiping pupils can bear. One child proudly uses Yvonne's full married name at every opportunity: "Mrs. Oscar Robertson, may I sharpen my pencil?" "Mrs. Oscar Robertson, may I go to the rest room?" When the Royals are in town, Robertson hunches over the kitchen table and meticulously helps Yvonne keep her school records, takes her dancing (he is accomplished...
Each of the N.B.A.'s stars faces special defensive techniques. Says Cincinnati's Wayne Embry of playing against Boston's Russell: "Get Bill off the boards. I try to push him out as far as he'll go. I try to bump him out with my thighs and forearms. You can't push Wilt out. He's too strong." Says Russell on defending against Chamberlain: "Make him take that fall-away shot of his-it takes him away from the backboard." Says Twyman about Baylor, one of the great stars in the history...