All through the first half of the game at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the Holy Cross Crusaders kept the crowd on edge. They were running away from favored San Francisco; the semifinals promised to produce the biggest upset of the Eastern College Athletic Conference basketball festival. Sideline experts had the answer as usual: San Francisco Coach Phil Woolpert was giving the championship away, they said. It was a mistake to let the Dons' big (6 ft. 10 in.) center. Bill Russell (TIME, Jan. 2), cover Tommy Heinsohn. The Crusader ace was popping shots...
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