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ae "Finally, with the game nearing the finish and Kansas
trailing by two points, Bob drove off to the side and made a far-
reaching, back-arm swipeat the basket and for some reason the
ball found its mark and dropped inte the goal for two points. A
Southern California man fouled, and with the score tied Bob walked
up to the free throw line and dropped the ball into the. hoop.

"Just a few moments prior to that + had a hunch - and
when I saw Engleman sitting on the side line I yelled to him to
report. I felt that if he could get into that ball game we would
win it. It was just as clear to me as day. Engleman was now in
the bell game and Kansas was one point ahead. Jack Lippert, the
great player 6n the Southern California team, took the ball off
the backboard with Southern California trailing one point, dribbled
to the center of the floor, and with a long, high-arching sweep
shot the ball and a swisher dropped in the hoop. My daughter, Jane,
who was an artist in Chicago had come to see her little brother |
play, and she fainted and passed out with the shock and she never
saw Kansas win that ball game.

"With the clock telling those few fateful remaining
seconds, and the Kansas crowd and team in a frenzy, this boy who
had been doing so poorly all night left his Southern California
opponent and in a mad dash he swung to Engleman's opponent and
stole the ball out of nowhere. Kansas nowhad the ball, with
Bobby Allen driving toward the goal and Engleman trailing along
beside him with only oneSSouthern California opponent between the .
two men, but with a Californian near the basket. Bobby drove at
this Californianman as if te go into the basket with the ball and
then shot the ball to Engleman who was in the corner. Like a
piece of cold steel Engleman crouched and let the ball go with a
_ high flinging arch that settled intothe center of the basket for
the winning goal. ‘“outhern California tried desperately and
missed their shot upon the return, and then Kansas had the ball
for the last few seconds. And as the gun popped Bobby Allen had
ho2d of the ball and with one wild gargantuan throw he sailed
the ball into the balcony of the auditorium seemingly desiring
to throw the ball to a spot that Southern California eould never
reache

“During the wild tumult that reigned I shock hands with
each of the Kansas boys. No words were spoken = everybody was too
happy for that. Bob and I have never talked about this incident
but somehow I detected this réponse in his eyes when I shock
hands with him - “Dad, I paid you hack".

"It is such incidents as these that occur in the life
of youth that makes them play great games. It is not soft jobs,
pampering, wet nursing, and so forth. But I want boys who want
to play for the love of the game, who are good students, and who
play for the shver joy of it - the sheer joey of trying to win a