Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an eraser. If I missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro five effectively buried Kentucky's fast break with pinpoint control of their own backboard, inspired hustling and just plain scrappy play. The final score...
Carty put Alcindor on a crash training program. For openers each day, Lew had to jump up and touch a line on the backboard 15 times in a row. The line was 11½ ft. high. Next, Alcindor practiced "stuffing" shots-jamming balls into the basket from above. After that, Carty and Lew squared off for a game of two-man basketball: the winner was the first to score 20 points. "I jumped on him," admits Carty. "I did everything I could to try and rattle...
...first it looked like a rout. While Russell controlled the backboards, covering Chamberlain like a shroud, Guard Sam Jones poured in 18 points in the first quarter, and the Celtics leaped into a 35-26 lead. Where was Wilt? All of a sudden, he was there and everywhere. He banked a hook shot high off the backboard, dropped a layup through the net. What's more, the rest of the 76'ers caught fire too; by half time they were ahead...
...futile gesture. The Celtics still led 110-109, and they had the ball. All they had to do was freeze, and the game would be over. So the incredible happened. Trying to flip the ball in bounds, Russell gasped with horror as it clipped a support wire on the backboard and caromed off court. There were still 5 sec. left and the 76'ers had the ball again, under the Celtics' basket. Quickly, they called time out. Coach Dolph Schayes outlined his strategy: Guard Hal Greer was to pass deep to Forward Chet Walker, set up a long...
Princeton took advantage of two Harvard penalties to grab its 2-0 lead in the first period. Mike Peterman scored first at 13:16 when Steve Cook's long pass bounced out to him off the Crimson backboard. Then Charlie McMillan made it 2-0 with just nine seconds left with a goal from the blue line...