Sonny Dove

It was midyear-examination time for most major-college players, but some teams, among them St. Joseph's, Kansas and Bradley—three of the nation's top 10—learned their lessons the hard way. They were all upset on the...

Even before the season began Joe Lapchick knew that this would be his last. The administrators at St. John's, where he had labored on and off for 20 of his 65 years, had decreed that Lapchick was to be retired at the...