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...Clair Bee is a 50-year-old dynamo with more jobs than most men tackle in a lifetime. In addition to being athletic director and assistant to the president of Long Island University (enrollment: 4,200), busy Bee writes a regular column for the New York Journal-American, manages a productive upstate New York farm, and also turns out magazine articles and books of fact & fiction for children (twelve published). These activities are just Bee's sidelines. His main job: basketball coach of L.I.U., the team with the best early-season record in the East...
...tapped in ten more L.I.U. points before he fouled out. These two lanky Negroes are Bee's main scoring threats, but because opposing teams concentrate their defense against them, Bee's other sharpshooters also get plenty of scoring chances. Says hard-to-please Clair Bee, who knows that 30% is a good basket-shooting average: "I expect my boys to hit the basket on 40% of all shots...
...victory over Bowling Green was L.I.U.'s 363rd (against 75 defeats) since Clair Bee buzzed into the scene 18 years ago. Included in his coaching record are two national championships (1939 and 1941) and 135 consecutive home-court victories...
There is a grain of truth to that. Bee has no idea how much L.I.U. pays him for coaching. In the course of a year, he collects about $20,000, for being Clair...
Another 20-yard pass from Greeley to John St. Clair put Winthrop 12 points ahead at the beginning of the second quarter, but Leverett broke into the scoring when Sam Paschal went off tackle for a 30-yard run later in the period...