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U.S. Olympic Cage(.30:galdeyYlt; ble coirne1;wi.idl.:611-SfId3,v,h-r,Tucker To Coach TeamIn Melbourne GamesKANSAS -• CITY UR-The- newlyselected U. S. Olympic'Basketball squad .should, be equal, to teams that represented this country inpast years and “perhaps a bit stronger, in the scoring depart. ment.'V: That is the opinion .of ■ Gerald Tucker who will .coeah the squad, which - was - selected ’Thursday bythe Olympic Basketball Committee. .“Personally, J think, we can mould an excellent outfit ” -Tucker.said; . .The Olympic committee made the selections following completion of a three-day‘round robin tournament.-here,' Two AAU team's—the Bartlesville, Okla., Oilers and the Seattle Bakers—an Armed Forces team and a college all-star squad participated.' .The Oilers, coached by Tucker, won the. tournament on a point' basis,., thus qualifying five men for the. Olympics. Twelve players in all were selected, plus two alternates,' ,Of the 12, Bill Hougland, former University of.-.Kansas star now' playing,with the.Qilers, is the only one repeating froin the 192 Olympics. v-This year’s team . will go., to, el-bourne, -Australia for the -games in November. :In addition to . Hougland other Bartlesville- Oilers on. the team are. .Chuck Darling, former Iowa great; Jim Walsh,' onetime. Stanford -star; Burdette ‘.Haldorson. and• * • ^ rBob Jeangerard. . Haldorson and Jeangerard played at, the;. University, of .Colorado .in their; college days. -• Others, selected were,' Bill Russell, K. C. Jones .and Carl • Cain of the. College ,All-Stars; Billy Evans, Fib Ford and Ro’n Tomsic. of the.-Armed-.Forces,' and- Dick Boushka :df. the Seattle' Bakers.Russell • -and. Jones, played at Kentucky, during; his ..college .’career, .. Ford. at;.. Texas,: • -Tomise. » at Stanford and Boushk'a-at St.Louis.Alternates are Joe Dean -of Bartlesville, Hal Lear!—. Temple, Willie ..-Na’ulls of U CL A,:- Ray .‘Warren of. TCU,. Charles.Koon. of the University of, Washington and Terry Rand of-'Marquette. • •- ' :. - 'Tucker became- head -MGlympic basketball : coach/, ■ automatically through, his'team's • ■ tournament victory, Frank (Bucky) . O'Connor;of ,the UniversityN;.of ' Towa,--V-theCollege.. AE,-^.; Stars coach,' wasnamed.assistant..coach;:* -S( Mrs thrc a 1'motpre;arebur7-i;
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Sat, Apr 07, 1956
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