Word: backcourt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handle the guards positions, Berg has nominated Dick Covey, from Ridgewood (N.J.) High School, and Dick Relifanyder, from Penn Charter, down Philadelphia way. Both boys play the steady basketball characterized by Eastern backcourt men, with Covey specializing in play-making and Reilfanyder in set-shots...
Harvard rallied after eighteen minutes had passed, and decided finally to press Yale in the backcourt. These tactics paid off, the Blue not having learned how to bring the ball up against such an apparently new device, and Frank Bixler dunked two fouls. Hugh Hyde slipped in for a basket. Mike Keene converted a layup--all within fifty seconds. But the Crimson five was still three points behind, and Jack Torgan's long-range effort as the final gun sounded still left Harvard a point behind...
Dartmouth's guards, Captain Stan Skang and Jim Briggs, do less scoring than their teammates, but they are potent characters in the backcourt. Where Dartmouth asserts its superiority over anything the Ivy League has to offer is in its style of play. No pussyfoot, stand-and-set, cut-once-a-week Eastern court tactics for these babies; they run all night, cut like deer, and throw one-handed shots from behind their ears in the best Big Ten tradition. It pays...
...Finegan turned in three years of backcourt duty at Gloucester, and big Jack Penson supplies the lone touch of experience at the pivot post, holding down a regular job for two years at St. Paul...