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AMERICA'S FOREMOST SPORTS ANALYSTS

Volume 17 Number 4 NEW YORK, EASTLA SING HAVE A''MUSIC MAN'' Forddy Anderson, Spartan Ba ketball Mentor, Uses Musical Gimmicks B11 RICHARD DOZER, Chicago Tribune Sports Writer DECEMBER 20, 1959

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Forrest (Forddy) Anderson, the per- fectionist who undertook coaching by accident, weathered the gambling scan- dals at Bradley, and subsequently put music into his profession, may be basket- ball's most unique showman. And he's a big winner.

Give Forddy a tape recorder, a movie projector, and an assortment of eager athletes, and he's equipped for action. With these incidentals af hand in East Lansing, Mich., Anderson this winter is off on his sixth season at Michigan State, where last March his startling Spartans

brought the school its first undisputed Big Ten basketball championship. With the meticulous Anderson, every game is a production; every victory pre- cious as an Oscar. With all his supple- mentary coaching devices, this young (Continued on page J)

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