Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend most of their time playing for laughs. Up to last week they had won 101 games this season and lost none. Usually, they so far outclassed their opposition that spectators seldom glanced at the Scoreboard. They paid to see the famed Negro team do their tricks (rolling the ball down their arms, through the enemy's legs, or lining up in formation like a football team). The team's star: Reece ("Goose") Tatum, whose huge hands dangle gorilla-fashion almost to his knees, and who handles a basketball the way most people handle an orange. The problem...
Only once did the Trotters try any of their tricks. A Trotter rolled the ball between a Minneapolis player's legs to Tatum, who snatched up the ball, whirled and scored a basket. Otherwise they were too busy trying to hold off Mikan (reportedly a $15,000-a-year man), who scored 24 points...
...American during the war saw the game played by British teams overseas and admitted it was really something to watch "If you only know what in hell it was all about." When eight forwards from each team are clustered in a tight, throbbing circle, trying to heel out the ball to the backs behind them, rugby resembles neither football nor soccer, although the pigskin itself is a compromise between the two. Add to all this running, passing, tackling but no blocking, and toss-outs from the sidelines and you have that strange hodge-page of field sports which is rugby...
Fifty-six hopefuls showed up for the flash-bulb barrage and then knocked and goosed the ball around in the short warm-up session...
...Lawson figured that J-type people are visually "blacked out" during 11% of the time they think their eyes are open. He believes that blinking is responsible for many a misread scientific instrument, many a missed tennis ball, many an auto accident...