Challenge to Clay explained
Sports fans looked on in confused wonderment when pro basketball star Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers challenged heavyweight champion Cassius Clay to a title bout during the basketball season.
SPORTSWITER LEONARD Schecter, in the current issue of Sport magazine, explains Chamberlain's sudden desire to enter boxing this way.
"The one thing Wilt Chamberlain despises the most is to be considered a freak. It's why he contemplated leaving basketball to become an end for the Kansas City Chiefs, and why he considered trying to become the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. It's why he thought about becoming a professional decathlon star. To prove he isn't a freak."
This drive to prove himself without capitalizing on his height (7-1) even led Chamberlain to develop an unusual fadeaway shot which may have been detrimental to his game of basketball.
"IT'S A SHOT Chamberlain developed, those close to him suggest, because he wanted a shot he could score not simply because he was tall."
"It is this strange drive that leads him to think he is not only the best basketball player in the world, but the best chess player in the world, the best track man and the best cook, continued the Sport article.
Says Willie Reed of the New York Knickerbockers, "he sweats he can beat anybody in the world at anything."
"He wants, when you come right down to it, to be six feet tall."
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Enid grid star will play at KU
Another cog in the Jayhawk football wheel of fortune was filled Monday as head coach Pepper Rodgers announced the signing of Dale Holt from Enid, Okla.
Holt, a 6-foot, 170-pound quarterback with Enid's three-time state champion squad, is the kind of player Rodgers is assured will fit into his proposed "moving quarterback offense."
"He WAS VOTED the outstanding back in Oklahoma," KU assistant coach Don Fambrough said, "and he's a real blue-chipper."
Holt was Enid's regular quarterback the past two seasons, and in 1966 gained 993 yards rushing and 829 yards passing. He passed for 15 touchdowns and ran for 13 more.
RODGERS TRAVELED to Chicago where he joined assistants Dick Tomey and John Cooper before heading for Florida and
on his talent scouting trip. He is expected to return to Lawrence later this week while another assistant, Dave McClain, is on a scouting trip in Ohio.
Others who have signed are:
Dwight Mitchell, Independence,
6-3 240 defensive end.
Niles Hauser, Ellinwood, 6-4,
215, tackle.
Skip James, Shawnee Mission,
6-0, 170, quarterback
Mike McCoy, Hiawatha, 6-4,
200, tackle.
John Riggins, Centralia, 6-2,
216, quarterback.
Bill Wache, Independence,
6-21/2, 240, tackle.
Keith Lippman, Kansas City, Mo. 6-1, 190, end-safety.
Craig Martindale, Bartlesville,
Okla., 6-2, 175, end.
Bill Robinson, Kansas City,
Mo., 6-2, 24, fullback-tackle.
Bill Snorgrass, Hickman Mills,
Mo. 6,- 5,245, tackle.
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