Phillips 66ers
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The Phillips 66ers were an amateur basketball team located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, sponsored and run by the Phillips Petroleum Company. The 66ers were a national phenomenon that grew from a small-t
Phillips 66ers players Jimmy McNatt (left) and Hank Luisetti (right) during the 1941–42 season.
Bud Browning played for the 66ers from 1937–1943 and served as the team's head coach 1943–48, 1953–54 and 1958–64
66ers guard Wayne Glasgow, circa 1952
![The 1963–64 Phillips 66ers, from left to right: [standing] Don Watkins (team manager), Jerry Shipp, Ken Charlton, Jim Hagen, Mike Moran, Terry Cerkven](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/1963-64_Phillips_66ers.jpg/500px-1963-64_Phillips_66ers.jpg)
The 1963–64 Phillips 66ers, from left to right: [standing] Don Watkins (team manager), Jerry Shipp, Ken Charlton, Jim Hagen, Mike Moran, Terry Cerkvenik, Bud Browning, [kneeling] Ken Saylors, Del Ray Mounts, Denny Price, Larry Pursiful, Charlie Bowerman and Bob Turner.
Bob Kurland
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Robert Albert Kurland was an American basketball player, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies. Standing 7-foot tall, he has been credited as the first person to dunk in a coll
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…season, the college basketball was dominated by the first two "modern big men": George Mikan of the DePaul Blue Demons, and two-time NCAA champion Bob Kurland of the Oklahoma A&M Aggies. Bob Kurland became a 66er in 1946 and was considered the club's greatest player since then. Kurland made the 66ers more…
Joseph DePietro (left) and Kurland on the way to the 1948 Summer Olympics
Kurland as a junior at Oklahoma A&M.