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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 2490262, member: 504"] Toby played in the NBA for the old San Diego team and later the Celtics. Maybe some others. I remember him getting late into a TV game for the Celts and clunking 2 foul shots with Bill Russell laughing on the bench. I actually have a Kimball bubble gum card from when he played in SD. Have to hunt it down, but I know I still have it somewhere. One of the great political upsets of all time. Toby I think had been Jr. class Pres and seemed a shoe-in for Senior Pres. The twin brother of a guy in my dorm, Joe Dolan ran against him in a pretty sophisticated campaign and beat him. The Dolan brothers played football at my hs, Weaver of Hartford, 2 of the more unlikely gridders you've met, but Joe was a decent running back. They convinced me to run for student Senate and I was probably the only candidate with a campaign manager. I was unknown and came in 3rd out of 18 with the top 12 being elected from the Jr. class. Piece of cake for the Dolans after unseating Toby who was truly popular. I'm not so sure Wes was hitting from half court, but 25-30 feet for sure. If the 3 point line had existed, he probably would have been guarded differently, but at guard he was a rangy 6-2 as were many college forwards at the time. In the ABA he led the league as a rookie in 3 point%, but his role changed drastically when one of the all time prolific scorers in pro history, Rick Barry, famously jumped from the NBA to the ABA on Wes’s team and pretty much was the show. I don't know if they still have it, but in the spring UConn used to hold a week long charity drive, that included a carnival mid-way in the Field House. One of the "skill" games was making 2 of 3 foul shots into an 11 foot high hoop over a water tank with a female student on a dunking stool to take a bath if someone could pull it off. She was high and dry for a long time. Then I witnessed Wes walk up. OK, he was a great foul shooter something like a crazy 99/101 on his frosh team and some streak of over 30 on the varsity. But you'd think even he would have to adjust to a hoop a foot higher. Nope. Hit the first two and into the drink. [/QUOTE]

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