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Into the Stands. For La Salle, winning was not as simple as the score suggested. All through the first period, while All-America Tom Gola and his teammates tried to get untracked, a tall (6 ft. 4 in., 185 lbs.), poker-faced playboy of a Mountaineer named Rodney ("Hot Rod") Hundley ran wild. On the La Salle bench, Coach Ken Loeffler screamed himself into a purple fury as he watched Hot Rod bamboozle the champs with unpredictable shots from impossible angles...
...Pride of Peoria" had been a last-minute choice to round out the tournament field of 24 teams, had marched ahead in a succession of upsets. The Eastern finalist in the tournament of upsets was considerably more imposing: Philadelphia's La Salle College, sparked by All-America Tom Gola, and possessor of a regular season record of 21 victories, four defeats...
...halftime, Bradley's big Braves held a 43-42 lead, seemed on the trail of another upset. But during a dressing-room dressing-down, La Salle Coach Ken Loeffler gave Gola & Co. new tactics: switch from man-to-man defense to a zone defense. The switch worked wonders. Bradley, which had been sinking 37% of its shots, suddenly could not find the range. Meanwhile, Gola & Co. went on a scoring spree-30 points in ten minutes-and won by an easy...
...Birmingham, Ala., Gola Martin, Negress, protested to police that her son Sam had sold her $50 false teeth for 10? to go to a cinema...