1968 UCLA Bruins Team Signed Program Championship Basketball Dinner (13) Lew Alcindor, John Wooden etc. – COA JSA

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Presented is a 1968 UCLA Bruins Championship Basketball Awards Dinner program autographed by (13) members of the team and others who were present at the event. The program front was autographed by (3) including Curtis Rowe, Neville Saner and J.D. Morgan. Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) signed the congratulatory page in blue pen (“9-10”). The back was autographed by (9) including Mike Lynn, John Wooden, Gene Sutherland, Mike Warren, Lynn Shackelford, Bill Sweek, Lucius Allen, Jim Nielson and other. The program itself has some inadvertent discoloration presumably from the dinner.

From 1964-75 John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins captured ten NCAA titles in twelve years, including seven in a row. The height of that dominance may very well have come during Lew Alcindor’s (a.k.a. Kareem Abdul Jabbar) three varsity seasons, when UCLA was transformed into “Lew-CLA.” From 1966-69, the Bruins went 88-2 in the regular season and 12-0 in the NCAA tournament, with Alcindor averaging 26/16 and 25/17, respectively.

The 1968–69 UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team won an unprecedented third consecutive NCAA National Basketball Championship, the fifth in six years under head coach John Wooden with a win over Purdue, coach Wooden’s alma mater. The Bruins opened with 25 wins, on a 41-game winning streak, but lost the regular season finale to rival USC on March 8, which snapped a home winning streak of 85 games.

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1968 UCLA Bruins Team Signed Program