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  1. Sam Gilbert (1913 – November 23, 1987) [1] was an American businessman who owned a construction company in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as a controversial athletic booster of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team from the mid-1960s until UCLA was ordered to disassociate from him in 1981. [ 1 ]

  2. Jun 8, 2010 · Sam Gilbert. If Wooden was the father figure of UCLA basketball, Gilbert was its shadowy one. Gilbert was a small, burly, self-made man with unfettered devotion to the Bruins.

  3. Apr 23, 1990 · MIAMI — On two occasions in 1985, prominent UCLA basketball booster and millionaire contractor Sam Gilbert told his son to deliver several large boxes to a bank president in Encino.

  4. Jan 31, 1982 · LOS ANGELES -- Sam Gilbert, a surrogate father and adviser to UCLA athletes for 15 years, allegedly arranged and paid for abortions for the players' girlfriends and helped athletes get discounts ...

  5. Nov 26, 1987 · Nov. 26, 1987 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writers. Four days after his death, millionaire contractor Sam Gilbert, a controversial sports figure once known as the “godfather” of UCLA’s basketball ...

  6. Nov 2, 2013 · With Wooden's knowledge, Sam Gilbert, the man Smith calls "the most well-known booster in college basketball," treated the UCLA players to all sorts of perks. They ate on his credit card, bought ...

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  8. Jul 29, 2024 · Sam Gilbert (1913 – November 23, 1987) was an American businessman who owned a construction company in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as a controversial athletic booster of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team from the mid-1960s until UCLA was ordered to disassociate from him in 1981.

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