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...Overshadowed most of the season by Philadelphia's towering Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who outscored him 4,029 to 1,436, Boston's lanky Bill Rus sell (TIME, Dec. 22) still won the Na tional Basketball Association's Most Val uable Player award for his sparkling de fensive play. As if to prove that the award was no fluke, Russell held Wilt to 35 points, scored 31 himself while the Eastern Champion Celtics romped over Chamberlain's Warriors, 129-114, in the N.B.A. playoffs...
...National Basketball Association wound up its regular season, Philadelphia's incomparable Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain scored 34 points in his final game, finished the season with a fantastic total of 4,029. The old mark, also set by Chamberlain: 3,033 points. Another record breaker: the Boston Celtics, who took their sixth straight Eastern Division championship by winning an alltime high of 60 games v. only 20 losses...
...Against the New York Knicks in a National Basketball Association game at Hershey, Pa., the Philadelphia Warriors' towering Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain had a hot night in chocolateville. He dumped in 31 points in one quarter and 59 in a half. With teammates feeding the ball at every chance, the 7-ft. 1-in. center, overall sank 36 baskets in 63 tries, added 28 points at the foul line. His game-end total of 100 points was an N.B.A. record, and so was the 169-147 score by which the Warriors...
...After his Philadelphia Warriors lost three straight games to Syracuse early in the N.B.A. playoffs, lantern-jawed Neil Johnston quit as coach, convinced he could never handle Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who runs a one-man show on court...
...agree on just what was wrong with a 15-story building across from Littauer, nor did President Pusey speak officially for the institution in objecting to the plan. The University still tried everything to oppose selling the land to Sullivan, and victory came last week to the anti-stilt forces when Governor Volpe vetoed the sale...