¶ For half the game at the State University's big field house in Iowa City, Iowa's Hawkeyes matched the University of Illinois Whiz Kids, second-ranking team in the U.S., in the battle for the Big Ten basketball championship. Then Iowa Center Bill Logan (6 ft. 7 in.) hooked in a couple of feather-soft shots that started somewhere around his knees and gave his teammates a lead they never lost. After that the confident Hawkeyes ran away with the game. Final score: Iowa 96, Illinois 72.
¶ Finishing fast in the stretch, Rex Ellsworth's brown...
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