61-62 Dover Basketeers

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This has been posted here before, but watch this and tell me that the players of the 60's couldn't dribble...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLH6bau9uo

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Here is another white guy that played college basketball in the late 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qv0YS1wHoQ

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65-66 college player...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUUPZrsP_8

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Is that a child out there? The short white one standing next to the only black guy on the court at the beginning. #6.

And it's really weird how he sits on some random adult's lap.

Actually they all look like children except the tall one. Basketball child pornography imo.

[LoneyROY7]

Them boys can dance!

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5-9 Calvin Murphy...played college ball in the 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVkL157TDv8

http://www.syracuse.com/poliquin/ind...did_one_g.html

PressThe last time, prior to Wednesday, that the Orange had scored 100 points in regulation and lost, this guy, Calvin Murphy, torched them for 68 points. Oh, yeah. He was 5-foot-9.
Facts are facts, and the fact is that prior to Wednesday night's 107-100 defeat at the hands of those Massachusetts Minutemen, the Syracuse University basketball team had not scored 100 points and lost, in regulation, since 1968 when the Purple Eagles of Niagara rolled the Orangemen, 118-110, out there in western New York.
And the culprit on that evening nearly 40 years ago was Calvin Murphy, who stood 5-foot-9, weighed 165 pounds . . . and dropped 68 points on the SU club that ended up driving home agog. This, back in the day where there was no three-point arc.

Now, a whole lot of younger folks may know Murphy only because of the news, revealed fairly recently, that he has fathered 14 children with nine different women, which is so gruesomely irresponsible that it deserves not the slightest of silly jokes here or anywhere.

But, wow, that man -- who might still be the quickest guy to ever lace on sneakers -- could play basketball. And, oh, did he burn the Orangemen on Dec. 7, 1968.

For the record, Murphy, a junior, was 24-of-46 from the field and 20-of-23 from the foul line that night before 3,200 worshippers at Niagara's tiny Student Center. And he grabbed six rebounds, too. And he handed off for six assists on top of everything else. And, yes, he dazzled as nobody ever could.

"When I was on the freshman team and Dave Bing was a senior, I'd take 30-second showers so I could get out there watch him play," Bob Kouwe, a former Syracuse player, told me back in 2003 while I was putting together my little tome, Tales from the Syracuse Hardwood: A Collection of the Greatest Stories Ever Told. "That's how great I think Bing was. But as great as he was -- and I guarded him a lot in practice, so I know Dave Bing was absolutely great -- watching him play was nothing, and I mean nothing, compared to watching Calvin Murphy play."

More from Kouwe, who was in an SU uniform on that wild evening when Murphy buried his 68? Here it is:

"We had Ernie Austin guard him. We had John Suder guard him. We had Ray Balukas guard him. I guarded him. But there was no way. None. He was the fastest human being you've ever seen. He could run faster dribbling than anybody could run without a ball, and he never mis-dribbled. So how do you cover that?

"We picked him up as soon as he crossed center court. We tried a box-and-one. We double-teamed him. We tripled-teamed him. We'd play defense on him when we had the ball on the offensive end, and I'm serious about that. But it was fruitless. There was no playing Calvin Murphy. It was a total loss even trying.

"You know what we were? We were amazed. Me, especially. There were three or four times when I was all over him. I mean, he'd go up for a 25- or 30-foot jumper and I'd be blanketing him, with a hand in his face. And he just jumped straight up into the air, as high as he needed to go, and let fly with the most beautiful floaters you can imagine. And he hit nothing but net. I thought I did a pretty good job on Calvin that night. I really did. And he went for 68.

"He could run. [COLOR="DarkRed"]He could dunk two-handed behind his head[/COLOR]. He could shoot. And the fans would go absolutely wild. I mean, they were crazy for him."

I remember asking Bob how many points Murphy would have scored on that magical evening if there had been a three-point line . . . and he hesitated not at all.

"Eighty," he said. "Easy. I kid you not. Eighty."

Think about that.

Oh, and think about this, as well: Calvin Murphy's show began that night prior to the tip-off.

"I remember that they actually stopped pre-game drills so Calvin could go through his baton-twirling exhibition," said Bill Smith, who was SU's center back then. "We didn't have to watch, but we did. We couldn't help ourselves.

"So, you've got to picture this: Both teams, and the entire crowd, have stopped what they're doing and they're staring at Calvin Murphy while he's twirling a baton. We're standing there on the court and we're thinking, 'My God, look what this guy can do.' We were psyched out before the game even began."

And they were torched once it did.

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How about David Thompson, who played high school basketball in the 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6OsKy1c5A0

How about Skywalker in 8th grade...

http://www.masslive.com/sports/index...hompson_r.html

Blessed with amazing athletic ability that included a vertical leap of 44 inches, Thompson said he could already dunk a basketball when he was in eighth grade and all of 5-foot-8

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Of course, ... Dr. J...who was playing college ball in the late 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqpkjFPbVY

[Jameerthefear]

Weak era.

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6-6 Gus Johnson who played college ball in the early 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkzRjMC1ZpI


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Any rumors of amazing feats have been told and retold over the years. Several involve someone riding a horse into the bar and ordering a beer for themselves and one for the horse. One says someone rode a buffalo through the bar. But the most told involves Gus Johnson and his nail. Gun played for the Vandals in the 1962-63 season. He averaged 19 points and 20.3 rebounds. He was drafted in the second round of the NBA draft by the Baltimore Bullets and was runner up for rookie of the year.

When Johnson played at Idaho in 1963, he already had a reputation as a leaper of the highest order. One evening at the Corner Club, a local tavern on Main Street in Moscow, Johnson was requested by owner Herm Goetz to display his rare ability to the patrons. The Corner Club was a very modest establishment, converted from a white-stuccoed small chapel in the 1940s with hardwood floors and a beamed ceiling. From a standing start near the bar, Johnson touched a spot on a beam 11'6" (3.505 m) above the floor. This spot was ceremoniously marked with a nail by Goetz, who then proudly proclaimed that anyone who could duplicate the feat could drink for free. A 40-inch (1.016 m) diameter circle was painted on the floor, and both feet had to start inside the circle to ensure a standing start. A full 23 years went by with many attempts at Gus Johnson's Nail, including Bill Walton in the summer of 1984, but there were no successes.

That was until 1986, when the College of Southern Idaho basketball team from Twin Falls stopped in town in January on their way to a game against NIC in Coeur d'Alene. Joey Johnson, a younger brother of then NBA star Dennis Johnson, was brought into the Corner Club for a try. The 6'3" (1.905 m) guard had a 48" (1.219 m) vertical leap and could put his chin on a basketball rim (10 feet (3.048 m)) with a running start.

Johnson laced up his shoes and touched the nail on his first try but was disqualified because he did not start with both feet inside the 40-inch circle. The next attempt came from a legal static start but was just a bit short. On his third try, Johnson grabbed and bent the legendary nail, a landmark event in Vandal sports history. Goetz pulled the nail out of the beam and pounded it back in, a half inch (13 mm) higher.

[moe94]

That dribbling under a human bridge is too funny.

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The Pearl vs. Clyde...both played college ball in the mid-60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4yKqbu3A0

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McAdoo...who played college ball in the late 60's and early 70's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ3unu2YAQ

[SHAQisGOAT]

65-66 college player...

5-9 Calvin Murphy...played college ball in the 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmI9MSuXtdY&t=2m10s



Tiny was also playing college ball in the 60s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kOtrkLFJUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN0ruk2SJ2Q&t=6m50s

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Ernie D....played high school ball in the late 60's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY65sR4rvA0