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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 1,1975
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UCLA trips Wildcats, 92-85
SAN DIEGO (UPI) - Fittin
gly, John Wooden has gone out
a winner.
The man who turned out the
greatest dynasty in college
basketball history did it again
Monday night—his final game
of coaching.
If Wooden, the wily Wizard of
Westwood, was conducting
some kind of psychological
warfare when he announced his
retirement Saturday after
UCLA’s 75-74 overtime win over
Louisville in the NCAA semifi
nals, it worked.
For the 10th time in 12 years,
his UCLA Bruins won a
national championship. Two
days after Wooden’s dramatic
announcement, his Bruins beat
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Kentucky’s take-no-prisoners
defense, 92-85.
“UCLA played a tremendous
and inspired game,” said Joe
B. Hall, the Wildcats’ coach.
In beating Kentucky for the
first time in his fabled coaching
career, Wooden used only six
players against a team that had
been nicknamed, “The Slaugh
terhouse Five” because of its
ability to maul opposition.
Kentucky’s defense had been
able to knock off the No. 1-
ranked team in the country,
Bobby Knight’s Indiana Hoo
siers, in the Mideast regionals.
“I just can’t believe a team
could only play six men against
such a fine, physical team as
Kentucky and win,” said
Wooden. “But we did it.”
Closing his 27-year UCLA
tenure with a remarkable 620-
147 record, Wooden won the big
title of college basketball with
the legendary Kentucky coach,
Adolph Rupp, sitting in the
stands.
Rupp, now 73, retired as
Kentucky’s coach three years
ago after running up an
amazing 879-190 mark. In three
meetings with Wooden, he won
them all.
But Wooden’s 10 NCAA
championships were six more
than Rupp could put together.
Poker-faced Richard Wa
shington, a slick 6-foot-9
sophomore from Portland, Ore.,
fired in 28 points for UCLA and
was voted the Most Valuable
Player of the tournament. All-
America Dave Meyers added 24
for the Bruins, who were 28-3 in
Wooden’s final season.
Washington and Meyers offset
a 34-point explosion from
Kentucky’s fine 6-5 senior
forward, Kevin Grevey.
“My feelings at this moment
are a combination of sadness
and happiness,’ said Wooden in
his farewell post-game inter
view session. “This was by far
our most physical game of the
year. But I tell my players they
must be in better condition than
their opponents.
“Maybe it’s the power of
positive thinking. But if I can’t
work them into condition, I try
to talk them into it. I have
tea
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SAN DIEGO, Calif—UCLA’s Rich Washington is about to get his hand on the ball as
Kentucky's Rick Robey brings the ball downcourt during championship play. UCLA won
the game and the NCAA championship with a score of 92-85. (UPI)
never had a conditioning
problem with my UCLA
teams.”
At 64, Wooden stepped down
four years before he had to, for
a myriad of reasons, which he
said he did not want to go into.
UCLA Athletic Director J. D.
Morgan said after the game
that he would have an
announcement on Wooden’s
successor, “in the relatively
near future.”
However, it will not be
Louisville Coach Denny Crum,
a former Wooden player and
chief assistant. In a hastily
called news conference 25
minutes before the Cardinals’
consolation game with Syracu
se, Crum announced that he
would remain in Kentucky to
fulfill the final four years of his
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The Atlanta Braves’ exhibition record dropped to 7-and- |
16 yesterday with a 5-1 loss io the Texas Rangers in
Pompano Beach, Florida. Lenny Randle had three hits
and Jackie Brown pitched five shutout innings to pace
Texas to victory. The Rangers clubbed three Braves
pitchers, including starter Carl Morton, for 10 hits.
Atlanta got nine hits but couldn’t make them count for
runs.
Flames
The Atlanta Flames try to keep their faint National
Hockey League playoff hopes alive tonight in a meeting
with the New York Islanders in New York. The Flames
must win their remaining four games and hope the
Islanders or the New York Rangers tied for second place
.. in the Patrick Division lose two of their last three contests.
Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks play their next-to-the-last game of |
the season tonight in Houston. The only thing at stake for
the Hawks is what pick they’ll get in the National
Basketball Association draft. If they lose their final two
•< games, the Hawks will have a shot at third pick.
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It was a good day in sports for both Georgia and Georgia |
| Tech yesterday. Tech beat Erskine College 3-1 in baseball
| and downed Young Harris College 9-0 in tennis. And
1 Georgia defeated Harvard 6-3 in tennis despite the
•• absence of ace Manuel Diaz and Tim Delaney with
J injuries.
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Louisville won the third-place
game 96-88 in overtime.
For Wooden, the victory
came in a season in which he
was not supposed to win. A
year ago, the Bill Walton-led
Bruins were the favorites but
had a string of seven consecu
tive national titles snapped in
the NCAA semifinals at Greens
boro, N.C., by North Carolina
State.
Girls make team
HARRISBURG (UPI) — Two
Big Spring High School
sophomore girls who began
illegal practice March 3 with
the boys’ interscholastic base
ball squad have made the team
—legally.
William Dra wbaugh, assistant
coach at Newville Senior High
in south-central Pennsylvania,
said that when Lisa Brehm and
Vicki Brookes “asked us if they
could try out, we said sure.
“We thought they’d just be
out for a few nights, and after
some hard practice, they’d drop
out; but they didn’t.”
The other side of the
Commonwealth Court decision
March 19 lifting sex barriers to
interscholastic sports may be
developing in eastern Pennsyl
vania with boys trying out for
the girls’ softball teams.
Ted Wagner, former director
of the Pennsylvania Inter
scholastic Athletic Association,
said boys may be playing on
girls’ softball teams at both
West Pittston High School and
Neshaminy High School.
At Newville, Coach Draw
baugh said when it became
apparent Lisa and Vicki
“weren’t going to drop out, we
had a problem. He hated to tell
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“We tried to play Kentucky
heads up,” said Meyers. “They
were very physical on the
boards but we played a lot of
tough board teams this season,
like Oregon and Southern
California in the Pacific Eight.
them they could be on the team
but couldn’t play in any games.
“But the court decision
March 19, and the PIAA Board
of Control decision to make it
effective immediately instead
of next fall, gave us the go
ahead.”
Drawbaugh said the two girls
“aren’t quite good enough for
varsity, but they’ll definitely
play junior varsity and get
some time in varsity games for
experience. They’ll probably
play for the first time next
Saturday when we meet Boiling
Springs.”
THANKS
The family of the late Mr.
Namon Leeks wishes to
thank their many friends
for the telephone calls,
flowers, food and other
expressions of sympathy
shown during the passing
of their loved one.
May God bless you all.
The Leeks Family