Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of team played way below their capabilities, and when you add to that the facts that Columbia was playing as good ball as they have all season and that the Crimson was plying on the other fellow's court, and on a slippery floor at that, you get the 38-25 score as the result. The ball handling was sloppy, passes were too low or missed entirely, the defense was far from impregnable. Harvard sunk the first goal, but from that time on the Light Blue was never headed...
Weakness in the center of the Providence five enabled the Feslermen to direct their charges down the middle of the court and supported by a strong defense keep the ball in foreign territory. Since long shots were unnecessary even when the visitors went wild towards the end in a series of long passes, the Crimson team chalked up most points in close skirmishes below...
Cool and impassive in the ring, Devil Montanez is impatient, ferocious, temperamental to a degree outside of it. Last week he invited hundreds of denizens of New York's Negro and Spanish quarter, where he lives, to a "victory ball" at 50? and 75? a head. Before the fight he had decorated a hall with huge banners proclaiming his triumph...
Rallying in the last half, the Jayvee hoopsters eked out a 28 to 22 victory over the Burroughs Newsboys last night at the Indoor Athletic Building. Working the ball in close to the basket, the Junior Varsity during the second period steadily increased, their 12 to 10 lead at half time...
...center court of the Indoor Athletic Building's top floor yesterday afternoon a perfectly routine practice session was in progress; the Varsity basketball team was opposing the Yardling five in a stiff, hard fought game, and as the ball travelled up and down the floor the first year men scored regularly against Bill Gray's outfit. But in the long run the more experienced team was rolling up a bigger and bigger margin as plays would click, passes connect beautifully. It was just one part in the final drive of the best basketball team Harvard has over...