UCLA vs. Dayton: 1967 National Championship | FULL GAME

[@brianarbenz7206]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said that about 10 years after this win, while he was traveling with the Lakers, he spotted the Dayton center Dan Obrovik in an airport, went over to him and told him he still regretted losing the opening tip of this game to him. That's being hyper-competitive!

[@nalla320]

To have that in mind after so many years, SMH

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@nalla320 He was a perfectionist on himself.

[@ManniLive]

Ahh i remember watching this game as a young Lad back in '67. Great times!

[@brianarbenz7206]

Fun fact: The starting floor leading guard for the winning team in the '66 title game was Texas Western's Bobby Joe Hill. The starting floor leading guard for the winning team in this '67 title game is Mike Warren, who 15 years later would play officer Bobby Hill in Hill Street Blues.

[@CapAnson12345]

As incredible as that seems, even more amazing is the fact that when this game was played 9 month old Pamela Segall who had no connection whatsoever to this game or the players in it was living in New York and would later go on to voice Bobby Hill in King of the Hill under her married name Pamela Adlon.

[@wmontanez27]

Thanks for sharing this game from sixties. I loved hearing the old Kentucky announcer again. I listened to him often as a kid doing Wildcat and Colonel basketball with the transistor radio. Good Memories.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Cawood Ledford. The most professional radio basketball broadcaster ever. .... For me, the big nostalgia feelings come from hearing Freedom Hall announcer John Tong do the starting lineups and call the baskets and fouls. I grew up hearing him call college and ABA Kentucky Colonel games.

[@jydaflyest]

That Lew Alcindor guy could have been something special in the NBA. I know he played a couple of years with the Milwaukee Bucks, then just disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.

[@dariusgarlandszn]

Fr he had legendary potential

[@eternal1blue]

Sad 😊

[@harpgrinder3149]

He changed his name to Kareem Abdul Jabbar and scored more points than anyone in the history of basketball.

[@danobrien6149]

@@harpgrinder3149nothin gets past you man. And Lebron broke his record

[@brianarbenz7206]

He didn't just disappear. I saw him piloting an airplane as Roger Murdock.

[@kenhenderson1762]

Game was played at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY. The audio is from the nationally syndicated radio broadcast. Doing play-by-play was long-time Kentucky Wildcats broadcaster Cawood Ledford. Ledford did radio play-by-play for the national championship game through 1992.

[@davanmani556]

The Christian Laettner shot.

[@GrubWarp]

As a lifelong Dayton fan, thank you so much because I have never seen this

[@DY_BB]

what a game… thanks to you,I can see the history of basketball from Japan.

[@rickycole6327]

This was Coach Wooden's third Championship his second of four undefeated teams with 4 sophomores and one junior this team started a string of seven consecutive championships (10 overall)

[@toastnjam7384]

Saw this as a 16-year-old. Dayton was the Cinderella in this tournament. They beat three higher rank teams to get to the final. Notice the lack of hoopla here. It's like a regular midseason game. Now the final is like a Hollywood premiere.

[@johnmanier7968]

From 1954 to 1968, the Final Four was played on Friday and Saturday nights, as were the regionals, and the games were on syndicated TV. The first network telecast of the NCAA tournament was in 1969 by NBC. The Final Four and regional format was changed that year to Thursday-Saturday, with the finals played in the afternoon for TV. The Final Four was switched to the current Saturday-Monday format in 1973, and regionals were split between Thursday-Saturday and Friday-Sunday starting in 1978.

[@robertbuck1874]

Used to love seeing Lynn Shackleford sink those long corner shots

[@asalikelly2541]

My late father is Rudy waterman #22 Dayton, if anyone has anymore vids or info I’d love it

[@brianarbenz7206]

I was just thinking about how many of these guys might still be around and where they'd be. Sorry to hear has passed. He had some good moments in this game.

[@bu74ny]

Great video. I grew up in Westbury NY and watched Rudy Waterman play at Westbury High. He was originally from Harlem and had all the city moves and then some. Great ballplayer.

[@JerichoCastille]

Is he kin to coach Bob Waterman?

[@chrismalloy7960]

Referring to Alcindor and Warren as “that boy”. I have a feeling that wouldn’t go over too well today.

[@gregfrank4115]

Thought about that myself.

[@allend2749]

u r so right. the blks would burn this country to the ground and loot it all

[@waldolydecker8118]

10:34 after Alcindor dunks to make the score 15-4, the announcer laments that it "looks like the beginning of the end." lol

[@johnlemon2916]

Was it illegal to dunk around that time?

[@waldolydecker8118]

@@johnlemon2916 - if the refs counted the basket, then it couldn't have been illegal in this game. The illegality probably went into effect after this game and lasted for 10 years (applied to high school and college, but not the NBA) until the decision was reversed in 1976. Dunking was banned as as attempt to suppress Lew Alcindor and other players who looked like him from embarrassing other players and dominating the game. Its no coincidence that it was just the prior year in 1966 that the all-black Texas Western team had beaten Adolph Rupp's legendary segregated all-white Kentucky program for the National Championship. Texas Western had several key dunks in that contest. No surprise the rules makers retaliated shortly afterwards and changed the rules for the next 10 years until public fan pressure forced them to reverse it in 1976.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

As soon as the announcer said that Don May had the game of his life in last night's game, I KNEW that he was doomed in this game, and I was right.

[@qceaz11]

Shout Out To UD My Hometown College My Uncle Glinder Torain Was On This Team He Said Kareem Was A Monster

[@hammer44head]

Lucius Allen would play with Kareem in the Milwaukee Bucks for a time.

[@jayeiben9431]

Don May was only 6'4 but could rebound with the best of them. I think he had 15 this game

[@petegobeckli1386]

#1 for 6 in a row for the BRUINS!

[@petegobeckli1386]

@Craig Culby It was 7?!. Good call. My error. I saw the last 5, if I can remember from 1970 thru 1975. Richard Washington was uh heckuva collegiate talent on that '75 BRUIN squad winning against INDIANA that year. That HOOSIER team was actually BETTER! than the '76 one. Anyway. 88 in a row for THE KODIAKS, setting up the STREAK BUSTERS! known as the NOTRE DAME FIGHTIN IRISH in SOUTH BEND at the ATHLETIC CONVOCATION CENTER in '74. I was 10 & my brother had just passed at age 13. Real downer. Oh. NC STATE with D. Thompson, Monte Towe & Tom Burleson, & coach NORM SLOAN knocked UCLA out in 74 also. Wolfpack were champs. Man. Great memories. May never see a team like the BASKETBALL 🏭 FACTORY! in Westwood again. Or, will we?!

[@toddgoza3522]

Lucius Allen, Kansas City, Kansas native!

[@animalmagic5575]

Never a bigger college game since than UCLA/ Houston in 1968. Jabbar vs. Hayes.

[@stever1791]

that was the Game of the Century.

[@rentslave]

Alcindor.

[@johnedwinoliver6842]

💛💙🏀💙💛

[@iamthegreatcornholio7836]

That Lou Al Cinder dude is good

[@waynebryant1857]

Nice spelling

[@iamthegreatcornholio7836]

@@waynebryant1857 actually i think his correct name was louis alvin cinder

[@jabbers081769]

march madness can you upload 2004 championship please

[@jimpierce3138]

The only time that Alcindor lost the opening tip.🏀

[@boogie8408]

Will any of the tournament classics from this years tournament be posted?

[@pearljam1984]

Wow back then you could actually jump into your opponent and draw a charge! 3612 if you don't believe me. Wow 😳

[@julrob97]

Kareem is like a foot taller than anyone else. How was that even fair?

[@jasonjackson1100]

Mike Warren... Hill Street blues!!

[@boogie8408]

Is there a reason why the womens tournament games are posted and none of the mens classics this year?

[@alanwylie8960]

There were several players from both teams in this game that had successful careers in the NBA.

[@patearly9492]

Awesome

[@tomloft2000]

Dayton needed a 5 point line.

[@carseye1219]

I would've thought that Kentucky '66 was the last all white starting 5 in a championship game. But I guess Dayton stretched it one more year. But Don Donoher had lots of African-American stars in subsequent years.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Kentucky's whole 1966 roster was white. Adolph Rupp was not a racist as far as his own character -- he had recruited black players for Kentucky and had coached blacks as a high school coach. But he did not stand up the the SEC's racism when he could have. He collaborated with segregation.

[@carseye1219]

@@brianarbenz7206 In many unearthed interviews, Rupp always deflected on the issue, blaming the conference, UK's administration, anybody but himself. He WAS SEC basketball at the time. If he'd have put his foot down, segregation would've ended in an instant. He made "token" efforts to recruit Unseld and Beard, but both felt those efforts weren't earnest. Many thought his first Black player, Tom Payne, was recruited to fail as he had many character issues. At least Rupp isn't given credit for integration like Bear Bryant is. The only truth there is that Bryant held off integration until he knew it would be impossible to remain nationally significant if he didn't change. Yet, down there, they treat him like he was the "Great Emancipator".

[@lightingbolt8148]

@@carseye1219 that’s not accurate about the Bear either.

[@carseye1219]

@Willis Carto No, but it can be a great place to start because of visibility. Sometimes one has to use the platform they have to effect change.

[@TSK24692]

Wow, they just did not play defense back then. Giving up the position to Alcindor that easily without any fight for position... Not a recipe for success.

[@petegobeckli1386]

Announcer creepin me tfao! Said Kareem was from Kansas. Kaj's from NYC. Mike, the quick fast LITTLE playmaker. Long way from HILL STREET BLUES.

[@petegobeckli1386]

@Craig Culby OK. Alcindor. I get. However, the big boy, boy stuff? Cmon! I know it's the 60's, still no excuse for that commentary. Heck, I was born in 1963, so I didn't witness UCLAs' dominance until SIDNEY WICKS & CURTIS ROWE in 1970 thru BILL WALTON & JAMAL(KEITH)WILKES. I saw Kareem as uh MILWAUKEE BUCK along with OSCAR ROBERTSON & BOBBY D. & others. I'm from Chicago, so the BULLS were constantly getting clobbered by that BUCK trio.

[@carlom.3737]

The other thing the announcer keeps calling The Bruins is "The Youclans". Now I'm class of 1996 and we never heard that nickname (which I assume is UCLAns) but maybe that's what they called us in the 60s...

[@PapaTrice360]

16:19 what call was that???

[@youtuber3328]

please tell me how exactly did ucla go 88-2 when they were led by the legendary kareem abdul-jabbar

[@paulsonj72]

They lost to Houston when Kareem was playing with an injured eye and one game to USC when USC slowed the game to a crawl and won a 2 point game at the end.

[@youtuber3328]

@@paulsonj72 that makes sense

[@rentslave]

Alcindor.

[@youtuber3328]

it's nice to meet you and i remember him previously being lew alcindor

[@natch27]

Look up a guy named Elvin Hayes and the Game of the Century. The “Big E” is an all-time great.

[@matthewstearns289]

Dayton looked supper white 😂

[@youtuber3328]

the best individual statistics go in this EXACT order the #1 scoring #2 rebounding and #3 shotblocking from kareem abdul-jabbar and my favorites did do and/or PROBABLY will go in this EXACT order the #1 really really HIGH overall greatness/quality #2 rebounding #3 shotblocking and #4 center position being played by kareem abdul-jabbar

[@stevejoycehatcher7326]

Lots of student athletes.

[@sydneychukwukelu]

Shot selection is awful

[@Paul-cj1wb]

Did Dayton even have a single black player in the starting lineup? And they expected to compete with a UCLA led by Lew Alcindor? And then the NCAA banned the dunk after this game to slow Alcindor's dominance. How did that work out?

[@bradtaylor4765]

To this day I do not like Lew Alcinder. But, I did like Wooden and Walton and a lot of the others. But, that dude had serious attitude issues and his teammates on the Lakers hated him, too.

[@mudcrunch6955]

News Flash: No one cares that you didn't like the greatest player in NCAA history.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Wooden was no saint. And as much as I admire Bill Walton, he had many of the same problems adjusting to social relations as Kareem did.

[@jackbriggs3110]

THE POINTSPREAD FOR THIS GAME WAS 17 AND YOU CAN SEE HOW UCLA SHAVED THE POINTSPREAD DOWN. CROOKED GAME, AS WERE A LOT OF UCLA GAMES WITH JOHNNY WOOODEN AS COACH.

[@brianarbenz7206]

We really appreciate the fact that you backed up that claim @jackbriggs3110. Some people make harsh accusations on social media and never say where they got their information. But not you, pal!

[@alanwylie8960]

I can remember watching the NBA Finals matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Milwakee Bucks in the early seventies that pitted the Lakers Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West against the Bucks Lew Alcindor and Oscar Robertson, Wilt Chamberlain basically schooled Lew Alcindor on both ends of the court, while Jerry West was smoking the nets from outside, the Lakers easily took the series for the NBA Championship 4-1 or 4-2, I can't remember the exact year or the series count for that NBA Finals, been too many years & beers ago. Lol... The one thing that really caught my attention was the fact, that very very few big men in the center could block Lew Alcindor's sky hook and during that series Wilt Chamberlain perfected the sky hook blocked shot. Lew Alcindor later changed his name to Kareem Abdul Jabbar just before he went to play for the Lakers after Wilt Chamberlain retired, where helped the Lakers win more NBA Championships, while setting his own NBA records for points in a NBA career.

[@ddenuci]

Wilt's Lakers never played the Bucks in he Finals. They did meet in the playoffs twice. In 1971, the Lakers were short-handed and lost to the Bucks 4-1. In 1972, the year the Lakers had their 33-game winning streak, the Lakers defeated the Bucks 4-2. Lou Alcindor changed his name in 1971 while still a Buck

[@matthewstearns289]

Wow the things they use to call a travel.