Word: alcindor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garden. That was enough practice as far as Coach Nat Volpe was concerned. He ordered his team back to the locker room to await the start of the game. "I didn't want them to see him before they had to," he explained. Who was him? Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor...
...Lollipop & the Dunk. A lot of him there was, too. Even in high school, basketball is a giant's game. New York City alone has 50-odd high school players taller than 6 ft. 5 in.-but Power's Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without...
Even that might not work. A nifty hooker and a delicate outside shooter, Alcindor is so fast, scrappy and versatile that Power Coach Jack Donahue could probably saw him in half and get two varsity guards. High school games last only 32 minutes (v. 40 minutes for a regulation college game), but Lew is averaging 31 points a game, and no less an authority than Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain,* a seven-footer of note himself, calls Alcindor "the greatest high school player I've ever seen...
Those who remember Wilt as a youngster in Philadelphia might argue. But against Stepinac Alcindor poured in 37 points; against previously unbeaten Rice High last week, he hit a phenomenal 21 out of 23 field-goal attempts. A few days later, he scored 35 and pulled down 23 rebounds, as Power walloped St. Helena's High 71-57-for its 69th victory...