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  Clyde Lovellette Player Profile at LakersWeb.com
Clyde Lovellette was a gentle giant who emerged from basketball-crazy Indiana to become one of the game's premier big men.
Lovellette was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament after scoring a record total of 141 points for an average of better than 35 points per contest.
After the 1957 NBA Playoffs, Lovellette was dealt to the Rochester Royals along with Jim Paxson for Ed Fleming, Bob Burrow, Art Spoelstra, and a first-round draft pick (which the Lakers used to select Rod Hundley).
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 Clyde Lovellette 1950
Lovellette was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in May 1988.
Clyde Lovellette, all 6 feet 10 inches of him, arrived at KU in 1948.
Clyde Lovellette, one of the first dominate big men in the history of college basketball, was an All-American center in 1951 and ’52.
www.hoopszone.net /Kansas/Players/L/lovellette-clyde.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Clyde Lovellette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clyde Lovellette (born September 7, 1929 in Petersburg, Indiana) is a former professional basketball player; the first basketball player in history to play on an NCAA, Olympics and NBA championship squad.
Lovellette played along side basketball legend Dean Smith at Kansas.
Lovellette's dominance in the paint landed him a place on the 1952 Summer Olympics gold medal team in Helsinki, Finland and he was the team's dominating player and leading scorer.
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 HawkZone - powered by CJOnline.com
The linchpin was Clyde Lovellette, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound center from Terre Haute, Ind., who was the first in a long line of redoubtable Kansas big men.
Freshmen were not eligible in that era, but as a sophomore, Lovellette won the first of his three Big Seven scoring titles and made the first of his three appearances on the all-conference team.
Lovellette became the only player ever to lead the nation in scoring -- he averaged 28.3 points a game -- and lead his team to the national championship.
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 HickokSports.com - Biography - Clyde Lovellette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lovellette was awkward as a boy because of his size, so his mother made him jump rope and do exercises to develop agility, and he gave her credit for his success as a basketball player.
Kansas won the NCAA championship that year and Lovellette was named the tournament's most valuable player, scoring a record 141 points in four games, including a single-game record of 44.
Lovellette was with the Cincinnati Royals for one season, 1957-58 and the St. Louis Hawks from 1958-59 through 1961-62 before joining the Celtics for two seasons.
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 The Sporting News: History of the NCAA College Basketball Tourney
Lovellette was a high school star in Terre Haute, Ind., whose outstanding physical characteristic was his height.
And Allen was a persuasive man. He told Lovellette he was gathering material for a team capable of sweeping the NCAA championship and the Olympic Games in 1952, and he told him he would be the key recruit.
And seven of his players, led by Lovellette, were chosen for the U.S. team that won the gold medal at Helsinki, Finland, with victories in all eight games, including two triumphs over the Soviet Union in the United States' first meetings with the Russians in Olympic basketball competition.
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 Clyde Lovellette Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A two-time All-State performer at Garfield (IN) High School, the six-foot-nine Lovellette led the Kansas Jayhawks to the 1952 NCAA title, capturing MVP honors and scoring a then-NCAA-record 141 points.
Playing for Hall of Fame Coach "Phog" Allen, Lovellette led the nation in scoring his senior year (1952, 28.4 ppg) and was named the Helms College Player of the Year.
Lovellette's dominance in the paint landed him a place on the 1952 Olympic gold medal team in Helsinki.
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 KUsports.com - : 1952: Matchless Jayhawkers subdue powerful St. John's of Brooklyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
All-American Center Clyde Lovellette of the Jayhawkers, named the tournament's outstanding player by the sportswriters and sportscasters covering the meet, led his powerful club with 33 points.
Lovellette, as always, was a fountain of points for Kansas, but he got timely assistance from his hustling mates.
Lovellette snared 17 backboard bounces, but the courageous Hougland was the runnerup in that department for KU.
www.kusports.com /news/jayhawk_history/story/106528   (1613 words)

  
 KUsports.com - Mayer: Payola not rampant at Kansas
A college lands a high-profile athlete and there’s no instrument that can measure how quickly people in opposing camps ask, “How much you slipping him under the table?” Loyalists may be equally inquisitive, but they don’t go public with their queries.
Phog Allen’s pursuit of Clyde Lovellette spawned countless rumors; Wilt Chamberlain’s choice of Kansas University drew sheets of derogatory rain; ultimately KU got penalized when some people helped Uncle Dippy on a car deal.
Lovellette erupted for 40 as KU won, and the next morning I went with Mitt and him to the store.
www2.kusports.com /news/2006/may/20/mayer_payola_not_rampant_kansas/?sports_columns   (1940 words)

  
 USA Basketball: Men's Olympic History - 1952
In the highly aggressive and physical battle that saw six Americans and four Soviet players foul out, the U.S. crushed the Soviets 86-58 as Kurland scored 15 and Robert Kenny and Clyde Lovellette added 14 points each.
With Lovellette erupting for 25 points, Chile was overrun by the U.S., 103-55.
Lovellette led the USA offense with nine points, while Kurland added eight points.
www.usabasketball.com /history/moly_1952.html   (477 words)

  
 SPORTS PEOPLE; Lovellette Loses - New York Times
LEAD: On the night Clyde Lovellette was accepted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., he was rejected by voters back home in Indiana.
The former N.B.A. center fell short by 12 votes in his bid for the third and final at-large spot on the Republican ticket for the Wabash County Council.
On the night Clyde Lovellette was accepted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., he was rejected by voters back home in Indiana.
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 Untitled Document
Kansas was led by AA and future pro star Clyde Lovellette.
Spivey went head to head with Lovellette, holding him to 10 points on 4 of 17 shooting.
He dominated Lovellette in a college head to head matchup and Lovellette was later a top NBA player.
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 TIME.com: Kansas' Skyscraper -- Apr. 7, 1952 -- Page 1
This week Lovellette and Co. were hot on the trail of another honor: the right to be the U.S. collegiate representatives in this summer's Olympics.
In contrast to Kansas' one-man gang, La Salle is a five-man team of deft ball handlers and sharpshooters, though none of them matches Lovellette's scoring potential.
In this week's collegiate final at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, it was Lovellette v.
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 WVU Varsity Club
He had a pretty good player in 6-foot-9, 250-pound center Clyde Lovellette from Kansas, who replaced NBA legend George Mikan and led the Lakers to the Western Division title in 1954.
But by 1957 the Lakers slipped to 33-39 and owner Ben Berger was ready to sell the team to a pair of Missouri businessmen.
Lovellette played a total of 11 professional seasons from 1953-64, averaging 17.0 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in a career that eventually led him to the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
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 Clyde Lovellette pic, poster, close-up pics & event picture
Clyde Lovellette, a basketball player, graduated from University of Kansas (1948-52).
A three-time All-America at Kansas, Clyde led Kansas to be the winner in the 1952 NCAA championship.
Clyde joined U.S. Olympic Team in Helsinki, Finland, which won the Olympic gold medal in 1952.
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 Kansas' Woodard Selected For Naismith Hall of Fame Induction :: Woodard becomes the 15th former Jayhawk to be enshrined ...
Woodard joins Clyde Drexler, Jerry Colangelo, Bill Sharman, Maurice Stokes and Drazen Dalipagic in the Class of 2004, which will be enshrined on Sept. 10, 2004, in Springfield, Mass.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- University of Kansas four-time Kodak All-American and former assistant coach Lynette Woodard has been selected as one of six new members to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, as announced at a news conference Monday in San Antonio.
Colangelo and Sharman had been finalists the previous two years; Dalipagic was a finalist last year and Stokes was a first-time finalist after being reactivated by the Veterans Committee in 2003.
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 SPORTS PEOPLE; Lovellette's Lessons - New York Times
Clyde Lovellette, a former collegiate and professional basketball star, is not looking for glory as coach at White's Institute in northern Indiana.
It's hard to build continuity in a program because we change from year to year.
Each year I meet 20 to 25 new kids and have to mold them into a team.'' White's is 10-6 under Lovellette, an all-American at Kansas in 1952 who played professionally until 1964 with Minneapolis, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Boston.
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 Player Bio: Sasha Kaun :: Men's Basketball
Voted recipient of the Clyde Lovellette Most Improved Player Award by his teammates as a freshman...
Earned the Clyde Lovellette Most Improved Player Award as voted on by his teammates...
2004-05: Clyde Lovellette Most Improved Player Award (as voted on by teammates)...
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Rudolph's control of a game and sense of humor is shown brilliantly by looking at the last game of the 1964 NBA Finals.
During the heated contest, Wilt Chamberlain hit fellow 7-footer Clyde Lovellette of the Boston Celtics with a punch and Lovellette went down like a shot.
Wilt told Red if he did not shut up, he'd be down on the floor with Clyde.
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 TIME.com: Ready & Loaded -- Dec. 25, 1950 -- Page 1
By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12.
The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding.
When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their playing time to be even").
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 St. Louis Hawks (1955-1968)
The Hawks continued to remain the dominant team in the West claiming their 4th straight division title by 16 games with a 46-29 record, as Bob Pettit, Cliff Hagan, and Clyde Lovellette all averaged more then 20 points per game.
On the court the Hawks rookie Lenny Wilkins was the most significant change averaging 11.7 points in his first year.
However, the bulk of the scoring once again came from the Hawks' front line of Bob Pettit, Cliff Hagan, and Clyde Lovellette, who combined for 72.0 points per game, as the Hawks easily won the West by 15 games with an impressive record of 51-28.
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 Mayer: Sports violence isn’t new | LJWorld.com
The worst basketball flareup I’ve seen was that blindside ambush and battering of Lawrence teenager Coulter Vestal by a Wichita hatchetman in a Newton tournament earlier this year.
Kansas cager Clyde Lovellette created a unique scene in December of 1951 when he put his foot on the belly of Missouri’s Win Wilfong to help him step over the prostrate Tiger.
The oft-battered Lovellette lost his cool a second and heated the auditorium substantially.
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 NBA.com: Boston 'D' at Center of Title Defense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Auerbach also had another series of crafty personnel moves to crow about: the addition of veteran center Clyde Lovellette and 6-foot-6 Willie Naulls in the frontcourt.
Naulls provided double-figure scoring as a key substitute for three important years, and Lovellette gave the Celtics some valuable experience and scoring off the bench.
Larry Siegfried, John Havlicek's teammate at Ohio State who later matured into a double-figure scorer, was also on board for his first NBA season.
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 Clyde Lovellette (Kansas Jayhawks/Boston Celtics) autographed Action Packed Hall of Fame card
Clyde Lovellette (Kansas Jayhawks/Boston Celtics) autographed Action Packed Hall of Fame card
Action Packed Basketball Hall of Fame card autographed in thin gold paint (sideways) by Clyde Lovellette, the first player to play on an NCAA, Olympic and NBA championship team.
This dealer may be surety bonded or otherwise insured to ensure the authenticity of any collectible sold.
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 John Kundla Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Coached Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor, Clyde Lovellette, Slater Martin, George Mikan, Vern Mikkelsen and Jim Pollard
Kundla also coached six Hall of Famers in Minneapolis, including Elgin Baylor, Clyde Lovellette, Slater Martin, George Mikan, Vern Mikkelsen and Jim Pollard.
Needless to say, it was a banner day in Minneapolis when Kundla and star pupil Mikkelsen were elected into the Hall of Fame in the same year.
www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Kundla.htm   (452 words)

  
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 Clyde Lovellette Shooting, Posed Double Matted 8 x 10 Photograph (Unframed) - SHOP.COM
Clyde Lovellette Shooting, Posed Double Matted 8 x 10 Photograph (Unframed) - SHOP.COM
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 LakerStats.com - Career Laker Stats - Clyde Lovellette
Clyde played in 282 out of a possible 288 regular season games.
Clyde played in 28 out of a possible 28 playoff games.
This site is not affiliated with the Los Angeles Lakers or the National Basketball Association.
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 Ablazingly Clyde Lovellette - ©Photofile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 CNNSI.com - Statitudes - Fresno St.'s Alexander fails to break scoring jinx - Tuesday March 21, 2000 03:40 AM
But only once has a player been the NCAA's scoring champion and been on the NCAA championship team -- Kansas' Clyde Lovellette, who averaged 28.4 points a game in 1952.
And since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, five of the seven scoring champions couldn't carry their teams past the tournament's opening round.
Three others scored 44 in a game (Bradley's Hersey Hawkins, Robinson and Lovellette).
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