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Kentucky, Oilers Control Olympic Basketball Team■Kv NOl-W AN MII.LKK I'nilcd Trr«# SpwHv IVrllrr, SEW YORK, N. Y.*—Fourteen of America’s most talented play-“ j era were named today to the j United States Olympic basketball team, whose victory in the games at London this summer is already a foregone conclusion.The court stars, among them some of the most famous giants in 11 the game, were selected by a spec-■ \ ial committee which labored at length to cull seven collegians and seven A.A.U, players from the eight-team post .season tournament which finished at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night.* * *THE ENTIRE starting lineup of the Phillips Oilers, who won the tourney with a 53 to 49 triumph over Kentucky, was named to the international team, and so was Kentucky's first five. The oilier lrntr men were from different teams in the tournament.J*rom the Oilers of Bartlesville. Okla.. come seven-foot* Bob Kurland. forwards Jack Renick and F. C. Pitts, and guards Lou Beck and Gordon Carpenter.Mamed from Kentucky were center Alex Groza, forwards Wallace Jones and Cliff Barker, and guards Ralph Beard and Ken Rollins.The other four were Ben Barksdale. the brilliant negro center of (he Oakland. Oil.. Bittners; Vinca Boryla, former Notre Dame star with the Denver Nuggets; Jackie Robinson of Baylor; and Ray Lumpp of New York University.
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Olean Times Herald
Olean, New York, US
Thu, Apr 01, 1948
Page 9
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