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JUST LIKE OLD TIMES
Familiar frenzy
To John Dick, the NCAA Tournament has changed very little since 1939. Few are left who could argue. Dick, now 88, led Oregon to the first tournament title that year, scoring 13 points as the “Tall Firs” defeated Ohio State at Northwestern University. He is the last living starter from the only Oregon team to reach the Final Four. “It’s so much the same,” Dick said Saturday. “The things that
separate the winners from the losers don’t seem to ever change.” Dick retired from the Navy in 1973 with the rank of rear admiral and settled in Eugene, Ore., with his wife. Until 1999, Dick never missed a men’s basketball game at McArthur Court.
