• Even though he played for the Philadelphia Warriors, Wilt lived in an apart­ment in New York City.
• He stayed up all night because, in his words from his autobiography, I'd been kept busy by an "encounter" or two (or three). He boarded a mid-morning train to Philadelphia to join his team for the game the next night in Hershey PA. I could­n't sleep on the train because I was scared I'd wake up somewhere in Virginia, Wilt recalled.
• Arriving in the City of Brotherly Love, he joined his teammates for the bus ride to Hershey, "The Sweetest Place on Earth," 95 miles NW of Philly.
• It would be the third and final home game that the Warriors would play in the city known for its chocolate bars. It was common in those days when the NBA ran a distant 3rd in the pro sports pecking order for teams to play games in nearby cities to broaden their fan base.
• Wilt spent the hours before the game in the game arcade inside the Hershey Sports Arena playing the rifle game. As he recalled, I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.

Hershey Sports Arena

• He scored 28 in Q3 for a total of 69. That gave him a great shot at breaking his personal records of 73 points in regulation and 78 points in a triple OT game. At that point, an off-duty Associated Press photographer in attendance named Paul Vathis realized that history was being made and went to his car and got his camera.
• After he put in the 78 against the Lakers in December, 1961, Warriors coach Frank McGuire predicted Wilt would score 100 some night.
• He continued his hot foul shooting, sinking 28 of 32 for the evening.
• Warriors statistician Harvey Pollack got the PA announcer to tell the audience how many points Wilt had after every basket. Late in the game, the crowd starting chanting the points with the PA man.
• With 10:25 left, Chamberlain tied his personal record, and league mark, of 73 points in regulation time. Within 30 seconds he had 75.
• The game was not televised and no video of it exists, but someone made a recording of Bill Campbell's radio broadcast of the game. He observed that Wilt's teammates on the bench were jumping for joy each time he scored a basket.
• With eight minutes to go, Wilt sank a fadeaway jump shot to give him 79, a new record for points in an NBA game.
• When he reached 84 points, Campbell told his audience, If you know anybody not listening, call them up. A little history you're sitting in on tonight.
• G Al Attles fed Wilt on a 3-on-1 break for a stuff and 89 points with three and a half minutes to go. The fans in the arena were going crazy, shouting We want a hundred.
• The Knicks had started milking the 24-second shot clock, determined to avoid the embarrassment of allowing someone to score 100 points on them. They also tried to foul the Warriors in the backcourt to prevent them from getting the ball to Wilt.
• McGuire sent in reserves with instructions to foul the Knicks early in their shot clock so the Warriors could get the ball more times.
• With 2:28 on the clock, Wilt hit a fadeaway jumper for points 91 and 92. Sixteen seconds later, he had 94. 96 came on another of his patented fadeaway jump­ers. A dunk produced 98 with 1:19.
• Ted Luckenbill, one of McGuire's designated foulers, sent Knicks' G Richie Guerin to the foul line, where he made both FTs.
• Jim Heffernan of the Philadelphia Bulletin described what happened next. The fans were on their feet and screaming. The players on the Warriors bench squirm­ed. The tension was at its peak. Wilt intercepted the ensuing throw-in by the Knicks and missed a shot from the foul line. And after the Knicks missed, the Warriors came down court and Wilt moved into the pivot, surrounded by New Yorkers. Ruklick fed the Big Dipper a pass. Wilt missed. He grabbed the rebound and missed again. Luckenbill snared the ball and passed the ball to Ruklick. Joe spotted Wilt under the basket, and lobbed ball toward the hoop. Chamberlain grabbed it with both hands and stuffed it through.
• On radio, Campbell exulted. He made it! A Dipper dunk! He made it. The fans are all over the floor. They stop the game. People are running out on the court. One hundred points for Wilt Chamberlain. They stop the game. People are crowding him, pounding him, pounding him. The Warrior players are all over him. Fans are coming out of the stands. Forty-six seconds are left. The most amazing scoring performance of all time. One hundred points by the Big Dipper.
• One of the officials brought the ball that went into the net for 100 to Pollack at the scorer's table. He in turn gave it to the equipment manager, who put it in a duffel bag in Wilt's locker.
• When the court was cleared, the final 46 seconds were played with Wilt stand­ing at center court, not participating. He didn't want to score 101 or 102.
• Final score: Warriors 169 Knicks 147
  

Fans and teammates congratulate Wilt after his 100th point.

Chamberlain set numerous records that evening, all of which still stand except most points in a quarter.

• Most points in a game - 100
• Most FGs in a game - 36
• Most FGs in a half - 22
• Most shots taken - 63
• Most points in a quarter - 31
• Most points in a half - 59
• Most foul shots made - 28

• Wilt dozed on and off in the passenger seat throughout the three-hour trip.
• While awake, he heard the driver, his good friend Willie Naulls, and the two Knicks in the back seat talking about the game. Can you believe that SOB scored a hundred points against us? They'd talk about all the tactics they used to try to keep him from scoring. Then they'd repeat, A hundred points!
• When they dropped him off at his apartment near Central Park, Wilt told them, You guys are sure nice to this SOB. Letting me score a hundred points, then giving me a ride all the way back to my apartment. Thanks, fellows.
• Imhoff bragged that he "held" Wilt to 58 points in the Sunday game.
• Chamberlain finished the season with a 50.4 ppg average - another record that still stands. But Wilt said, It doesn't mean a thing if we don't win the title.
• The '62 Warriors defeated Syracuse in the best-of-five first round series before bowing to the Celtics in seven games in the Eastern finals.

A final note: Not only has no one scored 100 points in a game, no two players on the same team have ever scored 100 points between them. (No, not even when Kobe Bryant canned 81 in 2006. His highest teammate had 13.)