Sport: Not Muscle, Just Russell

In Northwestern University's mammoth McGaw Fieldhouse last week, 11,000 fans got a lively demonstration of the difference between the simple scoring of points and the winning of basketball games. In one round, Temple University's Hal "King" Lear set a single game record of 48 points, but in the end his team was able to place only third in the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament. In the big game, San Francisco's incomparable Bill Russell, while lazily turning in 26 points against Iowa, spent most of his time dancing in the air like a...

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