Sport: Kansas' Skyscraper

Coaches call him "the monster"; sport-writers call him "the beast." In politer sport circles, he is called the "Kansas Skyscraper." The man with all the nicknames is huge (6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs.) Clyde Lovellette, who last week galloped up & down basketball courts in the N.C.A.A. tournament with all the intensity, if not the ferocity, of a rampaging bear. In four games against some of the U.S.'s best teams (Texas Christian, St. Louis, Santa Clara and St. John's), Lovellette, using an apparently unstoppable hook shot, demolished every major N.C.A.A. scoring record by swishing 141 points through enemy baskets.*

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