Bob Kurland was a 7-foot center that played for Henry Iba's Okalahoma A & M University Aggies basketball team. He was an integral part of the team's consecutive NCAA titles 1945 and 1946.
The rivalry between he and DePaul's George Mikan would foreshadow similar matchups, especially those of "big men."
He became an insurance salesman after a brief professional basketball career.
BobKurland tells how he paid his way through college at Oklahoma A&M in the mid-1940s.
The changes in rules, tactics and attitudes were Kurland's direct contributions to the game's transformation from horizontal to vertical.
That's because the NCAA Tournament ran a poor second to the Garden's National Invitation Tournament--until Iba, Kurland and the Aggies won back-to-back NCAAs in 45 and '46.
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