Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week experts reckoned the best teams in the country as college basketball reached midseason. Because there is no national championship, the question of who plays the best basket-ball is one that perennially and profoundly agitates thousands of pool rooms and fraternity houses throughout the U. S. Each section of the country claims superiority, and the more pretentious teams usually spend Christmas vacation on a junket trying to prove it. This year basketball fans had an additional cause for controversy: the new centre-jump rule...
...baseball, the offspring of cricket and rounders, and football, the offspring of soccer and rugby, basketball can boast a pure American ancestry. Characteristically American, it has been prolific with its regulations. In 1891 the game started out with one rule: no more than one step could be taken with ball in hand. In 1892 basketball had 13 rules. Last year...
After parading the ten competitors through the ball room, the Big Four concluded that Simmons possessed a perfectly proportioned face. Their decision was based on the results of tape measures, but their standards were not revealed...
Harvard's strong showing Saturday against the pre-season favored Indians indicates that Coach Wes Fesler's quintet will be very much in the running for the Ivy League championship. Against Dartmouth the Crimson showed their best form of the season, swiftly working the ball in under the enemy basket. Herrick and Lowman Shine on Defense...
Although shadowed by Lupien and Lutz in scoring, Lowman and Herrick along with Captain Vernon Struck were outstanding on the defense. The tall Crimson center was "pinched" under the Dartmouth basket, but proved invaluable in grabbing the ball off his own back-board, while Lowman held Bob McLoed, Indian threat, to five points...