 As a player for the Overbrook Panthers , Chamberlain averaged 31 points a game during the 1953 high school season and led his team to a 71 @-@ 62 win against the Northeast High School of his future NBA teammate Guy Rodgers . He scored 34 points , won Overbrook the Public League title and a berth for the Philadelphia city championship game against the winner of the rival Catholic league , West Catholic . In that game , West Catholic quadruple @-@ teamed Chamberlain the entire game , and despite the center 's 29 points , the Panthers lost 54 @-@ 42 . 
