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Though remarkably consistent in the won-lost department, Alston himself is a collection of inconsistencies. He is primarily known as a conservative strategist; yet he has a way of calling for a suicide-squeeze play or a double steal when it is least expected. He claims that he would like nothing better than a set lineup; yet he has been freely platooning his players for years. He says that he believes in treating players like mature adults; yet he has been known to invite troublemakers into the alley for a fistfight and to break down the hotel-room doors...
...time college coach knows, job security is measured by won-lost records. That produce-or-perish pressure accounts at least in part for the hanky-panky that caused Oklahoma two weeks ago to forfeit nine of last season's football games (TIME, April 30). Last week Steve Owens, a Heisman Trophy winner at O.U. who is now a Detroit Lions running back, suggested that abuses in player recruitment are more common than is generally suspected. Owens revealed that while he was a high school senior in Miami, Okla., one college offered to deliver a $5,000 cash bonus...
...Harvard fencing team, doomed to an inglorious second-division finish in the Ivy League, travels to Worcester tonight for a match with Holy Cross that should fatten up the final Crimson won-lost totals, but which should add little else to the Harvard season...
...consider that his only good running back flunked out last Spring, the Brown admissions department hasn't recruited enough talent to produce a winning team since 1959, and Brown has now lost 13 games in a row. That is, until you remember that if Jardine quit with his won-lost record, he couldn't find a job coaching field hockey at Pine Manor. At least Jardine used to have the consolation of looking forward to the annual battle for the cellar, the Brown-Penn game. But the Quakers scored more points last Saturday than any Penn team in 50 years...
This year Wilt's critics have been silent-and for good reason. After leading the Lakers to the best won-lost record (69-13) in N.B.A. history during the regular season, Chamberlain was nothing short of awesome in the playoffs. In the N.B.A.'s western division title series with Milwaukee, he decisively outplayed basketball's newest giant superstar, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, eleven years his junior. Then, after shuffling uncertainly in the first game of the championship series, Wilt recovered spectacularly to lead the Lakers to a 4 games to 1 victory over the New York Knicks...