Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year last season with Buffalo, learned about Wootten from James Brown, who starred at De Matha before attending Harvard on a scholarship. At Wootten's suggestion, Dantley spent the summer before his freshman year boning up on his studies. By the time he graduated, he could meet Notre Dame's tough admissions standards. Now he is the brightest pro star among the NBA'S eleven De Matha alumni. Says Dantley: "Wootten is just a classy guy who makes a better person out of you. He can communicate with ballplayers, especially black ballplayers. And every college coach knows...
...home. "I fell in love with coaching," Wootten says, "and changed my major from prelaw to education." Now 46, he has remained a high school coach despite a stream of offers from colleges-including Wake Forest and Maryland. He has even said no thanks to a feeler from Notre Dame. Why? "It's satisfaction with my work and the enjoyment of working with young people when they are most pliable. It's not that I see something in college coaches' lives that I don't like; it's that I see something...
...Says Bob Whitmore, who held Lew Alcindor to 16 points in the only game the New Yorker's high school team lost: "The one outstanding quality Morgan has is his honesty. When you are streetwise like I was, you learn to read that." Sid Catlett, a Notre Dame graduate who had a brief NBA career, credits Wootten with turning his life around. Catlett had been fatherless since the age of three. When he went to De Matha, Catlett, now an electronics executive, turned to Wootten for guidance. Says he: "In my neighborhood, I could have gotten into all kinds...
...this weekend's NCAA basketball, Notre Dame bounded past DePaul yesterday to capture the Midwest regional championship, 84-64. Following a close first half, the Irish really started fighting. A 20-footer by freshmen Kelly Tripucka gave Notre Dame the lead for good at 47-46 with 11:48 remaining...
...Thursday in Wisconsin Chipman and Vastola showed their better sides in making the final 24 in high-quality fields of 55. Chipman's preliminary bout victories included a conquest of defending sabre national champion. Notre Dame's Mike Sullivan...