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Like St. John's, whose basketball more than supports all other sports, Wyoming is a basketball college and this was its biggest year. To match the Indians' Boykoff, the Cowboys had 6 ft. 7 Milo Komenich, like Boykoff one of the season's leading scorers (401 points) and one of the few Eiffel-tower basketballers who can really play the game. The Cowboys also had a supporting cast all at least 6 ft. 3-with one exception. The exception, a little dynamo named Kenny Sailors, made it tough for St. John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cowboys v. Indians | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Small Boy. While Giants Boykoff (17 points) and Komenich (20 points) battled each other almost to a standoff, Sailors was all over the court, again & again drove like a P-38 through the St. John's team to pour the ball through the basket. With two minutes to play, St. John's, eight points behind, seemed beaten. But it was not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cowboys v. Indians | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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