Word: wilt
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Four on One? Robertson is the best player in college basketball today. As a sophomore last season, the "Big O" beat out such stars as Seattle's Elgin Baylor and Kansas' Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain for national scoring honors, made 984 points (average: 35.14 a game), was named Player of the Year. This year he is better still...
...Keeping his eye fixed on all possibilities of turning a fast buck, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, the 7-ft.-2-in. lapsed amateur from the University of Kansas (TIME, June 2) looked over the basketball season ahead and announced a change of plans. Rather than gamble on taking his own team on tour, Wilt decided on a sure thing. He signed a one-year contract with those skillful showboaters, the Harlem Globetrotters...
...Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is a lanky (7 ft. 2 in., 225 Ibs.) Philadelphia Negro with a delicate talent for dunking basketballs through 10-ft.-high hoops and an understandable urge to see his skill pay off. But high-paying summer jobs and a free ride at the University of Kansas have not added up to enough cash, says Wilt in the current issue of Look Magazine. "I'm quitting college basketball, even though I have a season's eligibility remaining and a year to go for my degree. I am arranging a big barnstorming tour...
...rumor that a wealthy K.U. alumnus put up $25,000 or more for Wilt's services may die off, now that he is quitting the campus, says Wilt hopefully. But other well-paid college stars will wonder at his disclaimers of a decent salary at Kansas. More than 200 colleges bid for the privilege of paying Wilt to study in their classrooms. If Kansas offered only the approved room, board, tuition and $15 a month for laundry, it is hard to see why a cash-conscious young man like Wilt chose a college so far from home...
...Wilt got a fat fee from Look for his story, will not be eligible for the pros until his college class graduates next year. But the figure of $25,000 seems to attract him. After he gets back from his barnstorming tour, he plans to demand just that amount in salary from the Philadelphia Warriors...