Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sports medicine was made by Dr. Arthur Kirk, the tournament's attending physician, who treated the two athletes. Seeking the cause of the injuries, he examined one of the baskets and found the culprit: a sharp, rough edge on the flange that connected the rim to the backboard. There were also other potentially dangerous sharp edges and points on the rim. Kirk's conclusion, in a straight-faced report to the Journal of the American Medical Association: the lacerations had occurred when the players' hands hit the hoop while they were making slam dunk shots. Recommends Kirk...
...unschooled in international rules and woefully short on muscle and experience. Nevertheless, their fluid fakes and brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence, the Soviet crowd roared with laughter and cheers, and one straight-faced official quipped: "Please ask your player not to perform that play any more than five times-we only have six more backboards...
...sanitary socks, pulled high and just below the knee, underneath the striped uniform socks. And then you see the shot. Not the jumping grenade-throw that the women hoopsters sometimes favor, but an easy-arching, back-spinning jump shot that usually doesn't bother with the backboard, much less...
Both teams showed unusual tension at the outset. Shots went awry, missing the backboard, and turnovers annoyingly stalled play. Harvard continually lost sight of Yale's center, Barb Liebowitz, who drove straight up the lane for unmolested lay-ups. Fortunately, Crimson center Lesley Greis and forward Wendy Carles were as productive at the other end, displaying a deft touch from the outside...
With Yale on top, 34-23, a vintage blend of Crimson basketball players produced a second-half surge. The 6 ft-10 in. Beaulieu and forward Mark Hadley consistently collared caroms off the backboard and converted delicate jumpers to pace the freshmen...