Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute later, Bowditch drove down the right side (he is left-handed), under the backboard, and eased in a backhander to put the varsity ahead for keeps. Fouled on the play, Bowditch had no trouble scoring one more. He is 12 for 12 at the free throw line this season...
...majesty of Louisiana law was District Judge Robert D. Jones, presiding over his court from a dais beneath the folded-up basketball backboard of the Covington (pop. 5,000), La. junior high school gymnasium. Around him, jamming available folding chairs and pressed back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely...
...basketball was good, but he landed a scholarship at tolerant College of Idaho. Freshman Baylor averaged 31 points a game, led the team to a 23-4 season, then transferred to Seattle University, where he really developed his talents. Last year Baylor trapped rebounds one-handed on the backboard, scored 32.5 points a game (second to Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson). Complained Coach Van Sweet of the College of the Pacific: "Baylor is too far advanced for the college game...
...lanky, well-muscled Negro made a high, spread-eagle leap, grabbed the ball and cleared the University of Cincinnati backboard. Whirling in the air before he hit the floor, he sped downcourt, dribbled expertly past three New York University defenders, plowed in and sank a difficult lay-up shot. Moments later, with the ball in his hands once again, he started to turn for a hook shot. Hit hard by an N.Y.U. player, he fell heavily to the court, but on the way down he somehow managed to arch the ball toward the basket with a flick of his powerful...
...play raged with nothing but an occasional offside whistle, before each side exploded with a sterling offensive play. With Dan Dolan of B.U. resting in the penalty box after tripping Mc- Laughlin, Fischer broke around the defense on the left and shot on Tanner. The puck bounced off the backboard, but the center grabbed his own rebound and stuffed it in the cage...