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Leading the Wolfpack, of course, is Thompson, the player who inspired one pro scout to say that he was "one of the ten best basketball players in America-college or pro." His supporting cast includes one of the tallest and one of the shortest men playing collegiate ball. The tallest is Tom Burleson, a better than adequate, if not great, 7 ft., 4 in. center and the shortest is a ball-hawking guard in Monty Towe, all of 5 ft., 51/2 in. With Thompson as the middle man around this odd couple, State has won all but one game...
...easy to scout but tough to play against." That is John Wooden's way of saying that U.C.L.A.'S court tactics are textbook-simple on paper yet devastatingly effective on the court. "With Bill Walton in our lineup, our strategy is simple," Wooden explains. "You go to him until the opposing team stops it. Then you go to others. If you don't go to Walton, it's like using Babe Ruth in your lineup to bunt...
Jeff Jones '20, a former ballplayer for Harvard and now a scout for the Oakland A's, introduced Park to the forty scouts in attendance...
Even after a prospect has seen his last scout and heard his last offer, he still knows no peace. For weeks after returning from Ohio State, Bill Seibolt kept receiving giant postcards with pictures of the Ohio State stadium. Jerry Eckwood could not escape pursuit even at his brother's funeral; a recruiter from Oklahoma came to pay his respects...
Cain was jailed in 1969 on charges of conspiracy, concealment of evidence and acting as an accessory to a robbery. Paroled in 1971, he resumed his role as Giancana's right-hand man, serving both as international courier and scout for gambling operations and investments in corporations in Europe and elsewhere...