| | Top level | Event type
Basketball, Men – Match #5
| Date | 29 November 1956 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Royal Exhibition Building Annex, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Referee | Ray Strath |  AUS |
| Referee | S. Sasaki |  JPN |
| Attendance | 3,106 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | United States |  USA | 85 | |
| – | Soviet Union |  URS | 55 |
United States
| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | 1st-Half Points | 2nd-Half Points | Disqualifications | 2-point Field Goals Attempts | 2-point Field Goals % | FG | FG% | FT | Free Throws % | Personal Fouls | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Bill Hougland | 2 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 1/4 | 0.250 | 0/0 | 0.000 | 0 | ||||||
| 5 | K. C. Jones | 10 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 4/9 | 0.444 | 2/3 | 0.667 | 1 | ||||||
| 6 | Bill Russell | 20 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 9/17 | 0.529 | 2/2 | 1.000 | 0 | ||||||
| 7 | Jim Walsh | 7 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 2/5 | 0.400 | 3/3 | 1.000 | 3 | ||||||
| 8 | Billy Evans | 1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0/2 | 0.000 | 1/1 | 1.000 | 3 | ||||||
| 9 | Burdie Haldorson | 8 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 2/5 | 0.400 | 4/4 | 1.000 | 1 | ||||||
| 10 | Ron Tomsic | 4 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 1/5 | 0.200 | 2/2 | 1.000 | 2 | ||||||
| 11 | Dick Boushka | 5 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 1/4 | 0.250 | 3/3 | 1.000 | 2 | ||||||
| 12 | Gib Ford | 3 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 1/3 | 0.333 | 1/1 | 1.000 | 2 | ||||||
| 13 | Bob Jeangerard | 14 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 7/11 | 0.636 | 0/0 | 0.000 | 1 | ||||||
| 14 | Chuck Darling | 11 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 3/5 | 0.600 | 5/5 | 1.000 | 2 | ||||||
| Team Totals | 85 | 39 | 46 | 0 | – | – | 31/70 | 0.442 | 23/24 | 0.958 | 17 | |||||||
| Coach | Gerald Tucker | |||||||||||||||||
Soviet Union
| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | 1st-Half Points | 2nd-Half Points | Disqualifications | 2-point Field Goals Attempts | 2-point Field Goals % | FG | FG% | FT | Free Throws % | Personal Fouls | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Valdis Muižnieks | 0 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0/1 | 0.000 | 0/0 | 0.000 | 2 | ||||||
| 4 | Maigonis Valdmanis | 4 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 2/6 | 0.333 | 0/0 | 0.000 | 1 | ||||||
| 5 | Vladimir Torban | 11 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 4/11 | 0.364 | 3/3 | 1.000 | 4 | ||||||
| 8 | Arkady Bochkaryov | 21 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 8/19 | 0.421 | 5/6 | 0.833 | 4 | ||||||
| 10 | Mikhail Semyonov | 2 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 1/3 | 0.333 | 0/0 | 0.000 | 2 | ||||||
| 13 | Viktor Zubkov | 7 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 2/5 | 0.400 | 3/5 | 0.600 | 3 | ||||||
| 14 | Mikhail Studenetsky | 10 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 3/7 | 0.429 | 4/5 | 0.800 | 3 | ||||||
| Team Totals | 55 | 32 | 23 | 0 | – | – | 20/54 | 0.370 | 15/19 | 0.789 | 19 | |||||||
| Coach | Stepan Spandaryan | |||||||||||||||||