Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Charley Lutz, the hoopsters put up a good fight, but superior shooting and a decided advantage in getting the ball off the backboard gave the Bruins a well-earned victory...
Somerville High School and Our Lady High School of Newton put on a match to show how the new convex backboard and the Last Bilt ball, both now under investigation by the rules committee, function in actual play...
Williams, playing a defensive game throughout, was unable to cope with a strong Crimson attack. The ability of the winners to get the ball off the backboard enabled them to control the ball for the greater part of the encounter...
...freed himself from his man, by pulling the other's arm and throwing him off balance, and cut for the basket. Near the foul line he caught the ball, jumped around like a rabbit, and threw the ball with both hands at the basket. It sailed over the backboard and delayed the game thirty seconds...
Gradually the Crimson five increased the lead and then using superior reach, kept possession of the ball off the backboard and on the tip-offs. In the closing minutes of play Captain Miles dropped one from the side of the court, but Red Lowman stopped the attempted Blue rally with a looper from the middle...