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The 1960 United States men's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XVII Olympiad, representing the United States of America. The team, coached by California Golden Bears coach Pete Newell, dominated the competition, winning its games by an average of 42.4 points per game. The team is considered by many to be the best amateur basketball team of all time and was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a unit in 2010.
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Roster [edit]
| Name [1] | Position | Height | Weight | Age | Home Town | Team/School |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Arnette | Guard | 6-2 | 175 | 21 | Austin, TX | Texas |
| Walt Bellamy | Center | 6-11 | 217 | 21 | Baltimore, MD | Indiana |
| Bob Boozer | Forward | 6-8 | 220 | 23 | Omaha, NE | Peoria Caterpillars (Kansas State) |
| Terry Dischinger | Forward | 6-6 | 190 | 19 | Terre Haute, IN | Purdue |
| Burdette Haldorson | Forward | 6-7 | 207 | 26 | Austin, MN | Phillips 66ers (Colorado) |
| Darrall Imhoff | Center | 6-11 | 220 | 21 | Berkeley, CA | California |
| Allen Kelley | Guard | 5-11 | 164 | 27 | McCune, KS | Peoria Caterpillars (Kansas) |
| Lester Lane | Guard | 5-11 | 165 | 28 | Purcell, OK | Wichita Vickers (Oklahoma) |
| Jerry Lucas | Forward | 6-8 | 220 | 20 | Middletown, OH | Ohio State |
| Oscar Robertson | Forward | 6-5 | 220 | 21 | Indianapolis, IN | Cincinnati |
| Adrian Smith | Guard | 6-0 | 175 | 23 | Farmington, KY | U.S. Armed Forces (Kentucky) |
| Jerry West | Guard | 6-2 | 185 | 22 | Chelyan, WV | West Virginia |
Olympic trials [edit]
Trials for the team were held in March and April 1960 in Denver. The trials were conducted in the form of an eight team tournament including teams from the reigning NCAA National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes, a team of NCAA All-Stars featuring stars such as Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, an NAIA All-Star team, and the AAU Champion Peoria Caterpillar Cats. The NCAA All-Stars won the competition convincingly, and so Pete Newell was named coach with Warren Womble as his assistant.
The trials came at a time when the AAU and NCAA were wrestling for control of USA Basketball and the make-up of the team represented that uneasy truce as the team was made up of seven collegiate stars, four AAU players and one representative of the US Armed Forces (guard Adrian Smith). This compromise meant that many top college players were left off the team, including Ohio State's John Havlicek and Providence guard Lenny Wilkens.[2]
Olympic tournament [edit]
The team went 8-0 in the Olympic tournament, held in Rome, averaging 101.9 points per game and holding their opponents to 59.5. Five Americans averaged double-figures - Oscar Robertson (17.0), Jerry Lucas (17.0), Jerry West (13.8), Terry Dischinger (11.8) and Adrian Smith (10.9). Lucas was the star of the medal round, as he scored 25 points in the gold medal game against Brazil, matching his total in the previous game against host Italy.[3]
Results [edit]
- USA 88, Italy 54
- USA 125, Japan 66
- USA 107, Hungary 63
- USA 104, Yugoslavia 42
- USA 108, Uruguay 50
- USA 81, USSR 57
- USA 112, Italy 81
- USA 90, Brazil 63
Legacy [edit]
The 1960 team is thought to be one of the best amateur teams in basketball history. Ten members of the squad went on to play in the NBA and four players from the team - Robertson, Lucas, West and Walt Bellamy have individually been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, as have head coach Pete Newell and Dutch Lonborg, who was on Newell's staff as team manager. Other career distinctions by team members include Dischinger's NBA Rookie of the Year Award (an award also received by Robertson, Bellamy, and Lucas) and Adrian Smith's NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1966. The team was elected to the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984.
In 2010, along with the "Dream Team," the 1960 US Olympic men's basketball team was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a unit. The election marks only the seventh and eighth teams so honored.[4]
See also [edit]
- United States men's national basketball team
- 1960 Summer Olympics
- Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- United States at the 1960 Summer Olympics
References [edit]
- ^ "1960 USA Men's Olympic Games Roster." usabasketball.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2010.
- ^ Cunningham, Carson (2009). American Hoops: U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball From Berlin to Beijing. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2293-9.
- ^ "1960 USA Men's Olympic Games Roster." usabasketball.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2010.
- ^ "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2010 Retrieved on April 11, 2010.
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