1957 College Basketball All-Americans with Wilt Chamberlain on The Ed Sullivan Show

1957 College Basketball All-Americans with Wilt Chamberlain on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 24, 1957. Subscribe now to never miss an update: ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
The 1957 USBWA/Look Magazine College Basketball All-American Team
Elgin Baylor, Seattle
Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas
Chet Forte, Columbia
Frank Howard, Ohio State
Rod Hundley, West Virginia
Jim Krebs, SMU
Guy Rodgers, Temple
Len Rosenbluth, North Carolina
Gary Thompson, Iowa State
Charles Tyra, Louisville
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[@bobwatson1162]

Wilt Chamberlain and Guy Rogers Philadelphia basketball Legends

[@PoliticusRex632]

Guy went to school with my next door neighbor. He had great stories.

[@rickrick5041]

Elgin Baylor

[@harlemw651]

😂 Why do they all look SO uncomfortable in that intro!!? 😂😂

[@HoneyHoneyBaby]

Lol 🤭🤣😭‼️

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

They know their parents are going to hear their names absolutely mangled by Ed Sullivan.

[@ToyeCalvin91]

Camera presence wasn’t a thing yet lol

[@EricMilton4165]

What a great upload!!!! I never knew that big Frank Howard was not only a basketball player but an All-American!!! I only knew him for cranking out tape measure home runs out of Dodger Stadium and RFK Stadium. And how cool is it to see one of the all-time great play-by-play voices in NBA history, Hot Rod Hundley, get pissed off at Ed Sullivan fouling up his name!!! And of course seeing the all-time legends, Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor as collegians. Great stuff!!!

[@softyme63]

Elgin Bay-Lor and that was big Frank Howard from Ohio St. who went on to play Major League Baseball

[@STTDB1990]

that's what I just asked about in a comment i posted. had no idea he was a basketball and baseball All American.

[@brucedavis7454]

I think Frank Howard held the NIT rebounding record for a while.

[@ddenuci]

Can you believe in the 1956-57 season, the UPI Player of the Year was the guy - Chet Forte - standing next to Wilt? He was selected in the NBA draft, but didn't make the team, and never even played in the NBA. By a strange coincidence, Chet wound up as the announcer for Game 4 of the 1967 NBA playoffs between the Sixers and Celtics, in which of course, Wilt played. In the 1956-57 season, Forte ave. 28.9ppg for Columbia. Wilt ave. 29.6 and of course grabbed a ton more rebounds and blocked a ton more shots than Chet. And Wilt's team made it to the NCAA finals. The selection of Forte as Player of the Year over Wilt has always baffled me. Maybe there was some racism at work, but the three years after Chet won, the award went to Oscar Robertson and the year before it went to Bill Russell. Seems like more of an anti-Wilt sentiment. The UPI award was the premier award back in those days. UPI rivaled AP. But UPI stopped handing out its own award after the 1996 season.

[@MostlyBrenda]

Also could be some media bias. Forte was in NYC at Columbia getting lots of coverage.

[@ddenuci]

@@MostlyBrenda Possibly, but it is really inexplicable, especially when you also factor in how much more successful Kansas was. Maybe the committee just didn't want to hand out the award to an underclassmen (Wilt was a soph). In addition to the UPI award, there was another award handed out at the time called the "Helms Foundation Player of the Year". That award also bypassed Wilt, and was given instead to Lenny Rosenbluth. So of the two players who beat out Wilt for college player of the year awards, one (Forte) never played in the NBA and the other (Rosenbluth) had an undistinguished two year career with the Warriors, ave. 4.2 ppg.

[@vitohov8824]

1957. You think those white people was gone be real and give it to black guy? They barley let blacks play back then.

[@lilbru]

Wilt's whole career, he's had alot of bias thrown at him...in his legendary 62 season, bill russell won the award. Now how do you see 50 pts & 25+ rbs yet give it to another person..seems like alot of ppl had personal vendettas against Wilt in his era. Maybe because the women were swooning all over him & they were jealous

[@BooBooDaFoo330]

@@lilbru 50 ppg, while leading the league in rebounds with two other all stars and they only won 49 games while Russ had two other all stars as well but won 60 games and the title…🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@MostlyBrenda]

Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts.

[@TonyGPizza]

Obviously Wilt towers above all, but you may have heard of the guy next to him too - Chet Forte, who led ABC Sports and was the guiding hand behind Monday Night Football. He beat out Wilt for college player of the year in 1957! Basketball fans will also recognize two other legends in this clip: Elgin Baylor and "Hot Rod" Hundley, who played for the Lakers and later became an NBA and college broadcaster.

[@frankmontwell3407]

Forte was also a notorious sports gambler.

[@samueldavidson8938]

R 2:25

[@richardherko1811]

Guy Rodgers too, one of the best passers of the time, if not a legend

[@mangadolo]

Yeah met Chet when he spoke at my school- Standley Middle in San Diego back in 91. He was working on XTRA Sports 690am back then… What a nice man!

[@robimes]

Giulietta Masina shows up at the 1:25 mark. Apparently she was on the episode promoting "La Strada" -- released in Italy in 1954, but not in the US until 1956.

[@dougmilesmedia]

Chet Forte later became a TV director for Monday Night Football and Baseball. Ed mispronounced Hot Rod Hundley's name, but that was Ed.

[@MostlyBrenda]

​@James Broms I think they were the Phila. Warriors in the early 60s.(Arizin, Attles, Gola, Guy R). Team went to SF. Then Wilt was traded to 76ers (Wally Jones, Greer, Walker, Billy C), But, yeah, he played about 5yrs with "The Dipper".

[@truth.74]

ED called Rod Hunley, Bob. Who became a great broadcaster after his playing days, ironically called the game that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar brook Wilt's all-time nba scoring record.

[@icevikiing]

His reaction was pricless after he heard it. HAHAHA

[@SpeedShift57]

Two later to become great LA Lakers

[@ddenuci]

You're of course referring to Jim Krebbs (who played center for the Lakers for 7 years) and Hot Rod Hundley (who also played his entire 6-year career with the Lakers).

[@andrzejzborowski4920]

@@ddenuci Exactly :D :D :D

[@graysonbyass-rascoe4326]

@@ddenuci we are missing two lol

[@MostlyBrenda]

"Bob" Hundley is really "Hot Rod" Hundley. Don't know if the cue-card was wrong or it was just Ed goofing it up as he often did. Hundley was a long time announcer for Utah Jazz. Died 2015 @ 80.

[@markvidpa]

He wasn’t known as hot rod until he got to the NBA.

[@MostlyBrenda]

@@markvidpa Okay, but his name is Rod and Ed says Bob.

[@ddenuci]

I love the look on Hundley's face at 1:17 when he realizes Ed just screwed up his name in front of a national TV audience.

[@MostlyBrenda]

@@ddenuci Had Ed known the nickname, he might have been "Hot Bob" the rest of his life! 😁 As a kid, I didn't like these segments on variety shows. They were just filler. The "LOOK All-America" team etc. Now, I realize that very little video exists of sports in that era. Chet Forte in uniform? Maybe you can find a newsreel if you are lucky. So gettin' a glimpse of Elgin Baylor in '57 is pretty special.

[@Pronzini1]

@@ddenuci Ed Sullivan could screw up the name Bob Smith, but of course he was great with Topo Gigio!

[@ddenuci]

Ed mentions the 1957 Shrine East/West all-star game at 1:54. The four participants were Tyra,, Rosenbluth (East) and Krebbs, Thompson (West). The West won 64-60.

[@ddenuci]

In the 1956-57 season, the leading NCAA scorers were: Grady Wallace of South Carolina (31.2 ppg), Joe Gibbon of Mississippi (30.0), Elgin Baylor (29.7), Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas (29.6) and Chet Forte of Columbia (28.9). It's interesting that Grady Wallace is not on the stage. He was picked for the second team on the Consensus All-American team. That year the committee picked 11 players: the ten on stage and Grady.

[@STTDB1990]

is that the Same Frank Howard who played for Dodgers back in the late 50s and the Rangers and Tigers in the late 60s/early 70s?

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

The very same. It was a little confusing because Boston had a 6'7" guy named Frank Sullivan. But this was indeed the man later known as Hondo to many baseball fans. In the tank top you can see that he had more muscle than usual for basketball players of that time.

[@seang3393]

Dodgers and Senators. Rangers less than one season, then to the Tigers.

[@ClashesYt]

Imagine them next to Yao Ming if he was old like his parents

[@jamesbowman8138]

Frank Howard had a baseball career

[@jonathanswift2251]

No one here seems to recognize Gulieta Masina made up as her character in La Dolce Vita!

[@MAINEVENT99]

1:30 6 foot vs 5'11

[@taha.030]

🤣🤣

[@lewiskent550]

What

[@michaelterry4394]

Bob Huntley. AKA HOT ROD HUNTLEY

[@KCJbomberFTW]

I absolutely love that the only two black dudes are Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain 😂 Like way to represent✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@UWalvern0810]

Um, Guy Rodgers was up there, too.

[@natalliaf6387]

do it for the cripples!

[@jasondawson8938]

People say Wilt was "Goliath" And guess what he was then and would be now Yea Yea i know Wemby is 7'5"... But come on now what would he do against Chamberlain? And yes im serious. Please all the "prisoners of the moment" respond. And you can even go by "todays game": That means Wemby's ball handle, length, 3-pointer,etc.... And before you laugh just remember what Embid did to Wemby😁 So let me hear it.

[@brucedavis3816]

Man what's wrong with that guy from SMU!!!

[@catcountry0099]

What?

[@44032]

Nothing here but he died at age 29 in a freak accident