Miss Brown also charges that a visiting recruit spent the night at Miss Parson's house, a violation of the A.I.A.W. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Yes, we picked up Allen in our investigations. that led to the imposition of two years of probation for the school's basketball program. . Andy Hill, a Bruin who played basketball for Coach John Wooden, eviscerates LA Times for ignorant smearing of Coach regarding Sam Gilbert. He is best known as a controversial athletic booster of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team from the mid-1960s until UCLA was ordered to disassociate from him in 1981. Larry Brown was UCLA’s basketball coach in 1980; none of the violations were tied to Wooden’s era.
The Bruins beat Florida State, 81-76, for their sixth consecutive national championship. The N.C.A.A. His final UCLA salary during the 1974-75 season was $32,500, which is about $161,000 in today’s dollars.The Woodens mostly lived in a series of apartments during his 27 seasons at UCLA except for the handful of years they resided in a three-bedroom, two-bath house on Colby Ave. in West Los Angeles. He attended UCLA in the 1930s but did not graduate, later to make his fortune as a contractor.
He never did anything bad; he never did anything wrong.”Some might say the specter of Sam Gilbert could qualify as an element of evil. “If they didn’t allow them to play, he’d put them back on the bus and he wasn’t doing that to make a political statement, he was doing that because they were no different than the other students and to deny them [the opportunity] to play wasn’t right.”My grandfather was unreluctantly a big part of the Civil Rights Movement with his black players. Gilbert held dinners at his home, provided UCLA players with advice, counsel and much, much more. He is best known as a controversial athletic booster of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team from the mid-1960s until UCLA was ordered to disassociate from him in 1981. Today, that modest home built in 1948 has an estimated value of $1.7 million.It’s been 10 years since the death of UCLA basketball coach John Wooden and we still miss his simplicity and grace, writes columnist Bill Plaschke.After Wooden retired, onetime Bruins star Mike Warren and UCLA alumnus Murray Neidorf were among a group of admirers who tried to pay the coach back for all he had given the school. While he never finished earning his degree at UCLA in the 1930s, Sam Gilbert became devoted to the school, especially its athletic program. He was “Papa Sam” to UCLA’s parade of All-Americans — he even negotiated contracts, usually taking only a dollar, when the NBA beckoned various Bruins. But David Berst, director of enforcement for the N.C.A.A., said yesterday that this action did not mean the U.C.L.A.