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...Just being there, just standing there, is enough, even if he doesn't do anything at all." The way U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden sized up his 7-ft. 1⅜ in. center, Lew Alcindor. was decidedly academic. In three seasons of college basketball, Lew scored 2,325 points, snagged 1,367 rebounds and led U.C.L.A. to three straight N.C.A.A. championships. Each year he was a unanimous All-American choice; twice he was named Player of the Year. The foundering American Basketball Association reportedly offered him $1,000,000-to play for any A.B.A. team of his choosing...
...Alcindor, you may have heard of. He is a college basketball player from UCLA and coincidentally, he is 7-1 and was the most valuable player in the NCAA playoffs for three straight years...
Everybody Calling. By contrast, Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft.½in. U.C.L.A. All America center, has already been offered a 40,000-acre ranch stocked with 3,500 head of cattle, if he will please, please play in the fledgling American Basketball Association; that's in addition to the $1,000,000 he is expected to receive when he joins the pros. During his career, Ben Hogan earned less than $300,000 on the links. This year Arnold Palmer Enterprises will meet a payroll of more than $1,000,000, covering his interests in such businesses as dry cleaning...
...University of Detroit, Haywood has many a U.S. coach talking like the awed Yugoslav. Last week his average of 23.8 rebounds per game was best among major college players; he stood third in scoring (31 average) and ninth in field-goal percentage (62%), which places him ahead of Alcindor in the first two categories. In Detroit's 71-68 victory over then undefeated St. Bonaventure, Haywood bagged 15 points and 16 rebounds. His only apparent weaknesses: he can be forced into an occasional bad pass or haphazard shot...
...confident that he could have starred in the Olympics even if Alcindor and the boycotters had played. "I think I'm just as good as they are," says Haywood, who is hoping to prove it in a confrontation with Alcindor at the post-season N.C.A.A. tournament...