John Wooden Before He Was Famous

I'm fascinated by little glimpses of legends before they become legends. Here's an excerpt from a Sports Illustrated article about UCLA basketball in 1962:

Wooden, 53 and an honor graduate of Purdue, is an extraordinary coach. He has the reputation of getting more out of his players than is in them, and in a sport where the hard-driving coach is often the most successful, Wooden's lower-key approach is rare. He coaches, not surprisingly, like a sedate school principal. He can be found each morning in his small UCLA office referring to records that show exactly what he did in practices on that same date in past years. Using this curriculum as a guide, he sets the day's practice routine. Around him, the office walls are covered with poems, epigrams, pictures of his grandchildren and a larger chart of his own devising called "The Pyramid of Success."

It's all there, and in two years everyone will know about Wooden and his pyramid.