Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand to see those big fingers in operation is so great that Phog has had to rearrange his schedule to put the freshmen on the program before each home varsity game. "Everywhere I go," says Phog, "they ask me about Wilt the Stilt. I've seen them all: Joe Lapchick,* Clyde Lovelette, Hank Luisetti-all the top men, and this kid is the best I've ever seen. For 20 years I've used a twelve-foot basket in my gym; as far as I know, I'm the only coach who does it. Wilt...
...Negro Concert Singer Etta Moten, a Kansas alumna, who wrote to the Chamberlains, 2) Dowdal H. Davis, general manager of a Kansas City Negro weekly, who flew east to make his pitch, 3) Professor Calvin Vanderwerf, of K.U.'s chemistry department, who passed through Philadelphia and called on Wilt's mother. Said Mrs. Chamberlain: "We've had many colleges speak to us about Wilton, but you're the first one who was a professor. I'm so happy to have someone talk about the academic side." By the end of May, Phog Allen...
Sudden Amnesia. To make sure that both he and Wilt stay happy, Phog himself works with the freshman phenomenon twice a week. One of the first things he did was to start Wilt reading Helen Keller's The Story of My Life "to develop his sense of feel and touch." Phog's current project: teaching Wilt finger manipulation, how to put English on the ball, how to spin it in from all angles when he is jammed in the bucket...
...invaded by big men, Phog Allen has campaigned loudly to have that twelve-foot basket of his made regulation; the regulation height is now ten feet. The big shooters, he has argued often, are killing the passing, the dribbling, the teamwork that makes basketball exciting. But now Phog has Wilt the Stilt. Says he with a quiet smile: "Twelve-foot baskets? What are you talking about? I've developed amnesia...
...coaches the N.Y. Knickerbockers, and last week was still complaining because the Philadelphia Warriors had draft rights to Wilt as of 1959 even before he went to Kansas...