Wow, thanks for the post! Damn, doesn't seem as if there's THAT big of a difference that people make it out to be. Thanks. Nice to see for one trying to be a student of the game.
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05-03-2010, 10:56 AM #151Good college starter
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Re: Bill Russell College Days
Tri City Herald - Mar 1, 1956
'First, Russell hopes to compete in the Olympics - almost certainly on the U.S. basketball team, and perhaps as a 400-meter hurdler. He could be the first player to make both the basketball and track squads in the Olympics. Of the hurdles, he says: "Other guys have to jump over those things; I can walk over 'em."
He once walked to a high jump standard and cleared 6 feet in his street clothes.'
Gadsden Times - May 1, 1956
'"Not promising anything, you understand." but Big Bill Russell, All-America basketball star at the University of San Francisco, says he's after a world record 8-foot high jump. Russell cleared 6-8 yesterday in a track meet which USF lost to College of the Pacific 84-49. Even with a bruised heel Russell showed a two-inch improvement on his mark 10 days ago, when he jumped for the first time since 1954. The world record is 6-111/2 by Walter Davis in 1953.'
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