I was 6-3 and weighed 160 pounds, and I got to guard (Wake Forest's 6-8, 240-pound Len) Chappell. |
They would be having sit-ins uptown, and we would be playing basketball at Benedict. Art had an old Model A (Ford) with no roof. He would cut a doughnut in front of a dorm at Benedict and let (the car) backfire. They would open the gym and we would go at it. |
We had Wake Forest down 17 points in the second half and lost. I still remember (Wake coach) Bones (McKinney) and his red socks. We should have won that game. We had four 80 percent foul shooters, but we didn't have a slow-down game. |