Word: kurland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sensato is a pensive Argentine comic-strip character who specializes in simple solutions for everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to me that the only way to win from .. . the tall ones ... is to play...
...National A.A.U. tournament at Oklahoma City, the underdog Oakland (Calif.) Bittners toppled Bob ("Foothills") Kurland and his Olympic teammates of the Bartlesville (Okla.) Phillips Oilers, 55-51, ended the Oilers' unbroken championship reign after six straight years. In the Western finals of the N.C.A.A. at Kansas City, Oklahoma A. & M.'s ball-control specialists outplayed Oregon State, 55-30, got set for the national finals in Seattle late this week...
...hometown Garden. Chief threat (if invited): Oklahoma A. & M., champs of the Missouri Valley, coached by stern Hank Iba, whose players call him "Sir." A. & M.'s crack team (which has lost only two games) is paced by 7-ft., high-scoring (58 points in one game) Bob Kurland, whose "dunk shot" is thrown down through the hoop, not up to it. Another contender: Ohio State, the Big Ten victor (won 14, lost...
...might even upset the applecart at West Point this week. Three other top teams put an extra sheen of gilt on their records last week: ¶ DePaul's 6-ft.-9 Center George Mikan took the scoring honors over Oklahoma A. & M.'s 7-ft. Bob Kurland (TIME, Dec. 25), as DePaul hung up its 15th victory (48-to-46) against one defeat. ¶ Well-balanced Iowa (won 12, lost 1), and its Wilkinson brothers took another hitch on the Big Ten title by trimming Indiana...
Playing the Eastern circuit last week, Oklahoma A. & M. gave 18,102 Manhattanites a chance to size up its redhaired, 7-ft. Bob Kurland. the game's No. 1 tall timber. With Kurland collecting rebounds by the handful-his jumping reach is higher than the 10-ft.-high basket-unbeaten A. & M. humbled first-class N.Y.U., 44-to-41. (In another Madison Square Garden doubleheader, Muhlenberg's Mules, playing a cagey boring-in game, took St. Francis in stride, 56-to-18, for their sixth straight...