Mel Counts shooting from the baseline versus Seattle University
- Title
- Mel Counts shooting from the baseline versus Seattle University
- LC Subject
- Baker, Terry Basketball Mel Counts Gill Coliseum
- Description
- Counts played for OSU’s varsity team from 1962 to 1964. OSU played in the NCAA tournament all three of Counts’ years. The 1962 squad made to the western regional finals before falling to UCLA, and Counts led the 1963 team to a Final Four appearance. He was an All-American in 1963 and 1964, and as a senior, he averaged 26.7 points and 18.9 rebounds per game. Counts played on the gold medal-winning 1964 U.S. Olympic team, and spent twelve years in the NBA. Seen in the background is guard Terry Baker.
- Work Type
- negatives (photographs)
- Location
- Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1963-02-01
- Identifier
- P195:1989:003
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Oregon Stater Photograph Collection, 1967-2001 (P 195)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Oregon State University Athletics Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Is Part Of
- This image appears in "A School for the People: A Pictorial History of Oregon State University," page 219.
- Institution
- Oregon State University
