Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...
...somewhere west of the Appalachian mountains, the Crimson basketball squad learned how to win ball games. The secret: Play the ball as well...
...face of this evidence--without the ability to hit on a better than average number of attempts from the floor or to control the backboards, the Crimson had to find some other way of winning ball games...
Skinner, another ball snatcher, will be an alternate forward. In the past his game has been sporadic, reached its peak against Nichols when he showed smooth ball juggling and a quick eye for set-up plays. Styles will be popping his distinctive fast and low long shot from forward and guard. Not speedy on the floor, his deceptive passing is an important ingredient in Berg's hoped for fast break offense...
Steady but not sparkling Jim Gabler is shifted to guard where his smooth, consistent ball handling will be more at home. High-scoring hustlers Smith, McCormick, and Wegner will plunk from their usual positions of left forward, center, and right guard. Wegner has proved the smoothest and fastest man on the boards and though lack of height keeps his scoring from being consistent, his single-handed rushes under the basket are adrenalin to the Crimson's lumbering attack...