Word: backboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Barbee has replaced Coombs at left guard to start the second game. Coombs played the whole Dartmouth game, but Barbee's superiority in getting the ball off the opponents' backboard has won him the post, temporarily at least...
...Sanderson Haldane, mother of onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor Haldane of Britain, became 100 years old, published memoirs in The Spectator. She told of her early edu cation, how she was taught to read when 3, how "the multiplication table and French verbs were repeated whilst holding a backboard* and with our feet in the stocks,* which were made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them...
...small floor at Hemenway, which adds to the necessity of height especially in scrimmage around the backboard, is responsible for another change in the Crimson line-up tonight. Malick will start at guard in place of Morrison, who was Captain Samborski's running mate earlier in the season. Without Malick, the University would have only Leekley as a man above the average in height, and Coach Wachter is making preparations for a close game in which scoring on close shots may spell the verdict...
...player will be able to practice strokes against the backboard as if he were on an ordinary court with an opponent on the opposite side of the net. Wire will enclose the court on both sides...