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1966-Jul • Basketball Clip • Bob Feller remembers Wilt Chamberlain Scoring 100 Points - Radio · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  It all started with a peach basket in a YMCA gym.
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  Now millions of youngsters play basketball from coast to coast.
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  In the back of their minds, there is usually one thought, to have one big night, to score a lot of points.
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  Let's go back a few years to Philadelphia, where a very tall basketball player was rewriting the record books at Overbrook High School.
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  College after college sought the very effective young point maker.
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  He chose Kansas University, but even before he departed for college, the pros had an eye on him.
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  They knew he was going to be great, one of the greatest ever.
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  In his sophomore year, he had had Kansas as a conference title, but he wasn't happy in school and quit before his class graduated.
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  Abe Saperstein signed him and he traveled with the famed Harlem Grobetrotters.
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  When he joined the Philadelphia Warriors for the start of the 1959-60 season, in no time he was rewriting the pro record.
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  His scoring feats were fabulous and his rebounding sensational.
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  He was a smart basketball player and he went about his job in a cool, methodical way.
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  On March 22, 1962, the Warriors were playing the New York Knicks at Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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  And it wasn't long before the fans got that feeling that this was going to be a special night.
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  Philadelphia moved quickly to a 19-3 lead. The big guy had scored a dozen of those points.
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  He wasn't much of a foul shooter, but this night he stepped to the line seven times and seven times he connected.
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  As the buzzer ended the first quarter, the big guy had 23 points.
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  But was far from over. In the second period, he tapped it in, hooked it in, chipped it in, and looped in his favorite fadeaway shot.
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  At the half, the big guy had 44 points.
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  The Warriors, especially the big guy, were cheered as they returned to the court.
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  He couldn't miss. One basket after another went in.
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  The fans welcomed the third quarter buzzer to catch their breath.
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  The Warriors were ahead 125 to 106 and the big guy had scored 66 points.
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  With one quarter to go, he needed 12 points to tie his own single game record.
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  He needed 34 to hit the century mark. Could he make it and do the impossible?
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  In 60 seconds, we're back to find out.
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  Eight minutes were left when he hit the 79 point mark, a new league record.
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  Now the crowd was screaming for the big guy to score again and again.
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  With one 19 showing on the clock, he intercepted a pass, dribbled, and shot.
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  The ball rimmed the basket and fell out. The crowd groaned.
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  But he hadn't had a chance. He scored. Then another basket.
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  The clock showed 46 seconds when the big guy took the ball with both hands, pushed it into the net.
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  He had scored 100 points and the crowd went wild.
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  The big guy, who is he? It was Wilt Chamberlain, the NBA's greatest superstar.