Right you are! My bad. And that reminds me…I can’t find my original program at the moment and I’m starting to panic. LOL I have too much ‘stuff’.
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Correcting my error!
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I prefer the other one for listening purposes please !! 
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Ollie was a JC player and would not have played on the UH freshman squad. Darn shame not to have had him another year!
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yes , thought of that afterwards. HE was from San Jac pipeline if I recall correctly. First of many great players from that storied JC Program !
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Today is day we remember and Honor the UH Coogs 1968 Team and their historic Win vs UCLA. JAN 20th 1968.
#GoCoogs
Edit: there’s another important U.S. event that happens every 4 yrs on Jan 20th, but it’s all abt the Coogs for me on this date. 
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Yep Ollie played the 3 and jumped center for our Coogs. Just ashame they banned dunking at the time. He was the Show even during the warmups
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It remains to be the the greatest sporting event I’ve attended in my lifetime, and will continue to be until we win the NC in Basketball
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I was a senior at UH, had been to every home game for four years, sat up high. What I remember is that it seemed surreal, watching the fabled UCLA team that had a supernatural air about them, unbeatable, 47 wins in a row, and this dude who towered over everybody else like a giant, topped by this big afro. He was genuinely injured, though; his cornea had been scratched, and I think he was wearing goggles and clearly not at his best. This takes nothing away from the greatness of Elvin’s performance. He really rose to the challenge of the moment. The feeling of us winning was unreal, an elation like being stoned. I still have the original program, which I got Elvin to sign when I walked past him as we were both on our way to class.
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My uncle went to the game and talks about how he had to use binoculars to see anything.
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I was at the game, still got my ticket stub.
While Alcindor supposedly had an eye injury, it didn’t stop him from making virtually all of his free throws.
The Big E just took it to him.
If you watch a video of that game, it is amazing how slow the pace was. Nothing like the fast pace of today’s game !!
Yes, I was there. Unfortunately, didn’t save ticket stubs or program and sure wish I had. It was difficult to see the game from where I sat but I saw enough to see Big “E” play the game of his life.
Thanks for the reference to the Robert Jacobus book. I was not aware such a source if information existed. A net search revealed a treasure trove of information on not only that game, but that time period, about which I am most grateful to learn.
I would not be born yet for a few years, but I was there, just like everybody else… had to sit up high, bino’s, magical experience.
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I was there, with my wife.
Sold programs before tipoff. Sold them all, could have sold way more.
I am mentioned in the Jacobus book, as he quotes my experiences seeing McVea play at Oxford, Miss. First Black player to ever play there.