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Release No. 355 (5h)

Besides being a constant scoring threat, he is a superb feeder, an excellent
defensive player, and a rugged rebounder, Additionally, it has been his insnired
leadershin as captain of this season's inexperienced California quintet that has led
the Bears to their impressive 5-1 early Séason records

An indication of the esteem in which McKeen is held by his teammates is tynvified
by Larry Friend, a sonhomore forward at California and a bright young scoring prospect
in his own right. After Califomia's 6-52 victory over Oregon early this season in
a game where McKeen scored only seven points but set up teammates with easy baskets
and controlled both backboards, Friend rushed un to him in the locker room and shouted,
"Mac, youlre the greatest}"

Friend sums un the current Bear five's feeling for their cantain in the following
manner: "Mac wouldn't have to score a point to be the most valuable player we've got,"

But McKeen does score lots of points, and most of them come in the clutch. As a
matter of fact, going into the seventh game of the current season McKeen was one point
away from becoming the greatest scorer in California history. Over 89 games in a
little over three seasons, he had tallied 1273 points for an excellent 1.3 points ver
game average. ‘The record of 127 points is held by Billy Hagler, another Bear center
who graduated in 1951.

McKeen owns every other Bear scoring standard, They are as follows:

1. Most voints single game--l0 vs, Utah, Jan. 30, 195).

2e Most noints, single season--57 in 26 games, 1953 (tie with Andy Wolfe, who scoved
.457 voints in 3) games in 196.)

3e Most points, single Southern Division season-~23) points in 12 games, 1953.

4. Highest average, single season--17.6 ner game in 26 games, 1953,

5« Most field goals, single Southern Division season--91 in 1953.6

6. Highest average, varsity careef=~1),3, 1273 points in 89 games,

7+ Most voints, Southern Division vlay--53, on 135 points in 1952, 23) points in 1953,
and 174 voints in 195h,

Those 234 noints in 12 league games in 1953 are also the most points ever scored
by a sonhomore in the history of the Southern Division end the third highest in the

league's annals. /lso, McKeen needs only 70 noints in 12 Southern Division games this

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