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Shredded Strings. This season's array of gifted college players-not to mention dunkers-is among the biggest in basketball history. U.C.L.A.'s Marques Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were...
...through a barbed-wire fence, crashed in a soybean field and burst into flames that shot 30 ft. high. Amid the ashes and wreckage, sheriffs deputies found the bodies of Litton, 39, his wife Sharon, 36, and their two children. With them were their longtime friend and pilot Paul Rupp Jr. and his 18-year-old son. It was a ghastly finale to what had been one of the greatest days of Litton's political career...
...took all of those elements combined to usurp Adolph Rupp's hegemony on national titles at UK. It will definitely take more than Wooden and Syracuse coach Roy Danforth (who incidentally, applied for Bob Harrison's job here two years ago) can muster to deter the squads Rupp's successor Joe B. Hall and UL's Denny Crum (Wooden's former assistant) take to San Diego...
...Kelly Rupp, a straight-A senior, had taken so many courses in the PIE alternative that he could have gone to college after his junior year. Instead, he stayed in Quincy because "I couldn't learn as much in the first year at most colleges. Here I can go as far as I want...
Brannum has impressive credentials for coaching. He was one of the youngest All-Americans at age 17, while under the tutelage of Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, as well as being an All-American at two different schools, earning the honor at Michigan State after World War II. The burly Brandies mentor played as a professional with the Celts in the early '50s before going on to spend 14 years as a coach at Norwich, Kenyon and now Brandeis...