| Date | 1 December 1956 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Royal Exhibition Building Annex, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Referee | Doug Hughes |  AUS |
| Referee | Sergey Sinyakov |  URS |
| Attendance | 3,051 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Points | Half #1 | Half #2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Canada |  CAN | 75 | 39 | 36 | |
| – | Japan |  JPN | 60 | 34 | 26 |
Canada| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Disqualifications | Total Field Goals Made | Free Throws Made | Free Throw Attempts | FT% | Personal Fouls | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Don Macintosh | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | Doug Brinham | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Ed Wild | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 1 | ||||
| 8 | Coulter Osborne | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Bob Pickell | 22 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0.800 | 3 | ||||
| 12 | John McLeod | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 2 | ||||
| 13 | Bob Burtwell | 30 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0.667 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | Ed Lucht | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 2 | ||||
| Team Totals | 75 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 12 | 0.750 | 10 | |||||
| Coach | Lance Hudson | |||||||||||
Japan| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Disqualifications | Total Field Goals Made | Free Throws Made | Free Throw Attempts | FT% | Personal Fouls | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Takashi Itoyama | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Takeo Sugiyama | 17 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0.750 | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Hiroshi Saito | 10 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1.000 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Shutaro Shoji | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Hitoshi Konno | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Kenichi Imaizumi | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 4 | ||||
| Team Totals | 60 | 0 | 25 | 10 | 11 | 0.909 | 11 | |||||
| Coach | Tetsuo Ohba | |||||||||||
