Question about Terry Rand's bio in the WIKI...

[77ncaachamps]

I was doing research on Rand and noticed something that seemed to contradict this sentence (I deleted it) which was formerly in Rand's WIKI bio:


"Rand was a member of the 1956 Olympic basketball team, but when financing became tight at the last minute, the team sent 10 players instead of 12."

I'm not calling out the person who put this sentence in here; I just want to know the source of the aforementioned statement.

[bma725]

I was doing research on Rand and noticed something that seemed to contradict this sentence (I deleted it) which was formerly in Rand's WIKI bio:


"Rand was a member of the 1956 Olympic basketball team, but when financing became tight at the last minute, the team sent 10 players instead of 12."

I'm not calling out the person who put this sentence in here; I just want to know the source of the aforementioned statement.

It's from an article about Terry Rand in Florida Business to Business magazine that Rand has up on his company's official website:

http://www.randfinancialadvisors.com/B2B.htm

There is also this quote regarding the National team from Terry himself:

"I missed the trip to Australia," Rand said. "However, I was still considered a member of the team, and in 1958, the United States sent the first team to Russia. We were there a month, and we were the first group to go behind the Iron Curtain. We met Kruschev. We played the Russian Olympic team 10 times, and won 10 games."

[77ncaachamps]

I was doing research on Rand and noticed something that seemed to contradict this sentence (I deleted it) which was formerly in Rand's WIKI bio:


"Rand was a member of the 1956 Olympic basketball team, but when financing became tight at the last minute, the team sent 10 players instead of 12."

I'm not calling out the person who put this sentence in here; I just want to know the source of the aforementioned statement.

It's from an article about Terry Rand in Florida Business to Business magazine that Rand has up on his company's official website:

http://www.randfinancialadvisors.com/B2B.htm

There is also this quote regarding the National team from Terry himself:

"I missed the trip to Australia," Rand said. "However, I was still considered a member of the team, and in 1958, the United States sent the first team to Russia. We were there a month, and we were the first group to go behind the Iron Curtain. We met Kruschev. We played the Russian Olympic team 10 times, and won 10 games."

Thanks! I'll put it in!!!

The reason why I asked is because I found some "conflicting" (maybe not so) information:

Source #1 - http://www.buchanbakers.com/gpage5.html

"By defeating the College All Stars, the Phillips Oilers were the winners of the round robin competition, earning five spots on the U.S. Olympic basketball team.

U.S. Olympic Team Selections
Phillips Oilers – Chuck Darling, Burdette Haldorson, Bill Hougland, Bob Jeangerard, Jim Walsh.
College All Stars – Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Carl Cain
Armed Forces All Stars – Bill Evans, Gib Ford, Ron Tomsic
Buchan Bakers – Dick Boushka.

Alternates
Phillips Oilers – Joe Dean.
College All Stars – Hal Lear, Willie Naulls
Armed Forces All Stars – Ray Warren
Buchan Bakers – Charlie Koon, Terry Rand"


Source #2 - http://www.usabasketball.com/history/usab_history.html

"Selection for the '52 Olympic basketball team was handled by a 14-member Olympic Basketball Games Committee. The Olympic Trials again featured eight teams in a playoff -- the NCAA Tournament winner and runner-up, the National Invitational Tournament winner, the NAIB Tournament winner and the top four finishers from the AAU National Tournament (Junior College, U.S. Armed Forces and YMCA teams were eligible to compete in the AAU championship).

By the 1956 Olympics, the Basketball Games Committee had been restructured so the AAU and NCAA each had six representatives and the U.S. Armed Forces four. And for the first time the Olympic Trials consisted of four teams -- the AAU Tournament champion and runner-up, a college all-star squad and an Armed Forces all-star team."