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Jackson Cage Star ToMiaaeairalisA lanky, 6’ 8” air force veteran may be just the transfusion tin hapless Minneapolis Lakers need to make the going tough for National Basketball Association op ponents in their remaining game? for the current season. The rookie who may give the floundering Lakers this much-needed spark is McCoy Ingram, a 1954 graduate of Jackson State College, who played under Coaches T. B. Ellis and Harrison B. Wilson prior to his graduation. A graduate of Thirty-Third Avenue High School in Gulfport, Ingram joined the Lakers January 15 and contributed two vital points via the free throw line as the leakers defeated the St. Louis Hawk? 112-110 in an overtime contest. Prior to this win the Lakers had won only nine games of 40 playedAlthough Ingram first came into basketball prominence as an undergraduate, his basketball play at Keesler Field resulted in his being put in position for basketball scouts to see him in action against excellent competition. In 1966 he was among the 56 basketball players in the nation who tried out for the twelve-man USA Olympia Basketball Team. One of six Negroes who tried out for the squad, he was the lone Negro in the group who attended an all-Negro college.Entering the College in September, 1950, Ingram played one year under Ellis and three under Wilson who came to the Cpllege in 1951. With Ingram operating at the center slot, the 1953 Jackson State squad won their first MW A A title.
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Feb 01, 1958
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