Sport: Basketball Champions

Memphis State's brand-new basketball coach. Bob Vanatta, was a certified authority on the task his Memphis State Tigers faced in Madison Square Garden in the final game of the National Invitation Tournament. Memphis State's opponent was more than just another good team; almost every man on the Bradley University squad was also a Vanatta product, personally recruited and painstakingly trained during the past two seasons when Vanatta was Bradley's head coach.

Not since 1950, just before grand juries discovered that some of Bradley's stars were students not only of such esoteric subjects as...

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