# Bill Russell SI.com photo: who are those guys?

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**Created:** [May 7, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-russell-si-com-photo-who-are-those-guys/581072 "2011-05-07T15:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-russell-si-com-photo-who-are-those-guys/581072/1 "2011-05-07T15:43:44Z")

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[SI.com](http://SI.com) has posted some interesting old photos of Bill Russell, the great Boston Celtics’ center. One of the pictures, number 6 of 25, shows him with some other athletes, including Jim Brown, Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul Jabbar) and Muhammad Ali. There are eight other unidentified men in the photo and I want to know who they are. The picture has two dates on it, 1960 and 1963, and appears to be at a press event for station WGAR (which is now the call letters for a country music radio station in Cleveland).

Link to photo here: [Link](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1105/bill.russell.rare.photos/content.6.html)

The fellow in the back row, third from the right looks like Willie Davis of the Green Bay Packers but I’m clueless about the other guys. [Willie Davis](http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/willie-davis-at.htm)

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**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-russell-si-com-photo-who-are-those-guys/581072/2 "2011-05-07T16:58:33Z")

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You’ve got them all [here](http://fritzpollard.org/?page_id=189) (bottom of page). It says the photo dates back to 1967, which is more realistic than 1963 since Ali didn’t get called until then.

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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-russell-si-com-photo-who-are-those-guys/581072/3 "2011-05-07T19:50:46Z")

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Thanks!!