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By ART CARTER Syndicated
Columnist
This article is the last in a three-part series.
While boxing and track and field have produced the
bulk of black Olympic gold medalists, other sports,
especially basketball, have produced some of the more
popular athletes who have signed lucrative professionalcontracts.
Perhaps the best known is Bill Russell, the great
Boston Celtics player and coach. Russell, 49. last year
completed a four-year run with CBS-TV during which he
was a regular announcer with Dick Stockton covering
NBA games.
Russell, who was a standout member of the Olympicwinning
U.S. basketball team in 1956, dominated pro
basketball after his collegiate days and Olympic experience.
He starred as a player and coach for the Boston
Celtics and was known as a student of the garpe as well as
a teacher. Russell led Boston to an amazing 13 world
championships as a player-coach. He now devotes his
imn t r\ O l/nnott aT Uurt w Ar n . M ?
iiiiiv. a *ai iti) \ji uusiiic3s uucicms.
Also on that victorious Olympic team as a teammate of
Russell was K.C. Jones, the current coach of the Boston
Celtics. Jones, who played in the NBA with the Celtics,
had previous coaching experience with the Washington
Bullets for three seasons beginning in 1974. Jones carried
the Bullets to the finals of the NBA against Golden State
after a 60-22 season during his second year of coaching.
He compiled a 47-35 mark in his first year and had a
48-34 record the year the Bullets let him go. Jones had
been an assistant coach with the Celtics before he was
elevated to his present post.
There are scores of other former Olympic basketball
stars now playing in the National Basketball Association,
and others who have played are now retired (Oscar
Robertson, for instance).
Robertson, the three-time ail-American who was a
member of the Olympic championship team in 1960,
signed a contract with the Cincinnati Royals one day
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after returning from Rome and went on to become one of
the great stars in the NBA before his retirement.
Some other notable former basketball Olympians include
Carl Gain, who played with Russell and Jones on
the victorious team at Melbourne; Walt Bellamy, an
alumnus of the I960 team; Walt Hazzard, a fnernber~of Hi
the 1964 team, and Spencer Haywood and Adrian
Dantley, the latter still active in the NBA.
Among otheF gold medalists who are still active in?
sports, although not on the cinderpaths or in the boxing
ring, are John Woodruff, who dominated the 800 meters
as no other runner has in his heyday. WoodrufLwon the __I
800 meters at Berlin as a member of the same Olympic ?
team as Jesse Owens.
Woodruff, fnrrpprly of the .University of Pittsburgh,
set world records indoors and outdoors, was a three-tftne
champion and led Pitt to four championships in the Penn
Relays. He annually returns to the Penn Relays, to serve
as a finish judge.
Charley Jenkins, a track star at Villanova in his collegiate
days, won the 400 meters in the Olympics at
Melbourne in 1956, and is doing what few Olympians get
an opportunity to do. Jenkins, after teaching and travel
ing abroad as a track coach, is back at Villanova as head
track coach, seeking to maintain the high standards the
Wildcats attained under his old coach, Jumbo Elliott.
Rod Milburn, who earned a gold medal in the hurdles
in 1972 at Munich, is still competing and may be a candidate
for the 1984 team. Last April, Milburn breezed to
victory in the 110-meter hurdles in the open competition
of the 25th annual Pelican Relays in Baton Rouge, La., in
13.3, which is an indication he is still in shape. f
Bob Hayes was another of the famed Olympic gold
medal sprinters. Hayes won the 100 meters at Tokyo and
turned to pro football upon his return, playing with the
Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League for
several years.
One of the great track and field stars of the Olympics
whose record has stood the pressure of time is Bob
Beaman, who set a world record long jump of 29 feet,
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