Just Sports Info

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1962--Australia's Rod Laver wins tennis' Grand Slam only the second man to do so.

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1963---Navy Qb Roger Stauback leads the Midshipmen to a 9-1 record and a #2 ranking, and wins the Heisman trophy.

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1964--At the Tokyo Games,Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila becomes the first repeat winner of the Olympic marathon.

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1965--Muhammad Ali retains his heavyweight title with a first-round knockout of Sonny Liston in their rematch in Lewiston, Maine

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Jack Nickaus wins his second straight masters and then completes the "career slam" by winning the British Open at Muirfield in Scotland--1966

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1967

The NFL champion Packers beat the AFL's Chiefs to win the first title game between the two leagues, later known as the Super Bowl

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1968

At the Mexico City Olympics, Bob Beaman long-jumps 29' 2 1/2" obliterating the old mark by 21 3/4".

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1969

After QB Joe Namath quarantees a victory, his Jets defeat the heavily favored Colts 16/7, giving the AFL its first Super Bowl title.

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The Boston Celtics had 9 championships in one decade

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The 1966/67 76ers won 68 regular season games

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Pete Maravich,in 1967/68 scored 9 fifty-point games for LSU, a feat he'll repeat or surpass in each of the next two seasons.

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During the 1966/67 season Earl Monore scored 1,329 points at Winston-Salem, the most ever for a Division II player.

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In 1965,With Lew Alcindor as a freshman, in a preseason game for the UCLA freshman they beat the defending national champion varsity team by 15 points--75/60.

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Wilt Chamberlain scored 4,029 points in 80 games in 1961/62 (for a 50.4 average) the only player to score 4,000 in a single NBA season.

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Wilt Chamberlain scored 4,029 points in 80 games in 1961/62 (for a 50.4 average) the only player to score 4,000 in a single NBA season.

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Suleiman Ali Nashnush,of Libya is the tallest player in organized basketball history.--8 feet

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In 1969/70 Pete Maravich averaged 44.5 points per game for LSU the highest average in Division I history.

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UCLA won 88 consecutive games from Jan. 30,1971 to Jan. 17,1974 an NCAA record.

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The L.A. Lakers won 33 consecutive games from Nov. 5,1971 to Jan. 7,1972 an NBA record.

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The 76ers in 1972/73 were (9-73) an alltime low percentage of 11%.