NCAA Basketball: Carolina Defeats Kansas for Title (1957, Frank Koza Collection)

"NCAA Basketball: Carolina Defeats Kansas for Title" (1957, Frank Koza Collection, 16mm, B&W, Sound)
Telenews highlight reel of the 1957 NCAA basketball championship game, in which the University of North Carolina defeated Wilt Chamberlain and the Kansas University Jayhawks 54-53 in triple overtime on March 23, 1957.
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[@billny33]

Really enjoyed seeing full highlights of this game in the style of the time.

[@ddenuci]

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[@spuzzlightyeartoo]

I'm no basketball fan, but this newsteel footage of this basketball game.. It's editing, it's announcing, just really made me get wrapped up in the suspense of it all! What a nail-biter!

[@kingofnewyork7765]

3:25

[@bellahoughton84]

Wilt Chamberlin & Jayhawks got hosed in 3rd Overtime.

[@JackF99]

10 years later in 1967 UNC had their first Black player.

[@bartcranston6982]

I was 10 years old when that game was played. I was a huge Wilt fan so I was very disappointed in the outcome. Since the, I’ve never been a Carolina fan!

[@spamandjamjamandspam8669]

Sure its bad quality footage but those did not seem like fouls on Wilt. Especially the last one

[@kingofnewyork7765]

How did wilts team lose?

[@TristanLockamy]

Lol Wilt’s free throw attempt in the first overtime was so bad. Go heels!!

[@jamesanderson3537]

Wilt got hosed

[@unclejacobsworld]

Way to go guys, NOW KANSAS WILL BE SEEKING REVENGE TONIGHT!

[@bellahoughton84]

Absurd Kansas Jayhawks lost this game with 7'1 Wilt!