Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Power's Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps up and rams the ball through the hoop from above) and the "backward dunk" (the same thing, but backward over...
...only two points 101-99. Trying for the clincher. Forward Heinsohn fired and missed. Everybody converged on the basket, clawing for the rebound. Chamberlain reached up, but Russell got there first. "Flailing like a wheat thresher, he bounded high into the air, plucked the loose ball off the backboard and, all in the same motion, rammed it through the basket-"all the way up to my elbows." he said later...
With about eight minutes remaining Dennis Lynch grabbed a rebound off his own backboard and hooked it in to give the Crimson a nine point lead, 49-40. Three points by the Big Green's Wilson Madden, who made seven of eight shots from the floor, and a tap-in by center Sam Barton cut the Crimson lead to four, 49-45. Then Scully went to work...
...edged bust. An A student in high school, he fretted about missing classes when the team was on the road, stayed up so late studying that his basketball suffered. In a Southern Conference tournament, Thorn fired a shot at the basket from just 20 ft. away -and missed the backboard by 10 ft. Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally," he recalls, "that I thought I was sick physically. Finally I called...
Crimson rebounders had the back-beards pretty much to themselves Saturday against Tufts, but tonight may be different. HC center Bob Foley (no relation to Jack "the shot") is a strong backboard man, and forward Pete O'Conner effectively assists...