Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peter Krogh is scheduled to play at number two position. Wynn terms him as "the type of player it is extremely hard to win points from. He is consistent and does not waste his shots." Last year's Virginia State Junior Champion, Rod Nichols, is third man, and Manny Elizalde, winner of the National Junior Doubles Championship of Japan, a Phillipine player with a steady game, is four...
Into the Stands. For La Salle, winning was not as simple as the score suggested. All through the first period, while All-America Tom Gola and his teammates tried to get untracked, a tall (6 ft. 4 in., 185 lbs.), poker-faced playboy of a Mountaineer named Rodney ("Hot Rod") Hundley ran wild. On the La Salle bench, Coach Ken Loeffler screamed himself into a purple fury as he watched Hot Rod bamboozle the champs with unpredictable shots from impossible angles...
...that can change collegiate basketball from a foul-ridden melee into the exciting spectacle that it was meant to be. Only the week before, the crewcut youngster (20) had boosted the Mountaineers into the N.C.A.A. playoffs by beating George Washington University almost singlehanded. In a tense overtime period, Hot Rod had really turned it on. He fired a foul shot-and sank it-from behind his back. With time running out, he stood there, calmly chomping on his bubble gum while he twirled the ball on the tip of his banana-broad fingers. When two G.W. defenders moved...
Carefree Clown. In the New York game La Salle's Coach Loeffler was determined to keep Hot Rod from repeating that kind of performance. In the second period calmed-down Loeffler ordered his team to switch to a zone defense. It was the first time a single opponent had ever forced Loeffler's hand, but it was a wise move. Hot Rod and his Mountaineers were slowed to a walk; Gola and La Salle ran off with the game...
Temporarily cooled off, Rod Hundley, the sophomore Hot Rod, went home to the hills of West Virginia. But for a little while he had been up in the big time. Fans hoped that his kind of carefree clowning might some day be a permanent fixture of collegiate basketball...