Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARGRET SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Ann, "From Hollywood With Love," are Dean Martin, Lucille Ball and the Watts 103rd Street Band...
...Knicks' convincing victory over last year's champions clearly indicated that basketball's old order is changing. Besides Reed, the New Yorkers boast a brilliant assortment of speedy ball handlers and hawks: Bill Bradley, Cazzie Russell, Dick Barnett and Walt Frazier. The team also gained additional power and scoring punch when Dave DeBusschere came to New York from Detroit in a trade last year. Says Holzman: "We have no first team, only some guys who play more than others." Their combination of depth and speed has made the Knicks almost invincible. Says Walt Frazier: "There...
...squat, muscular ball carrier atop the Heisman Trophy conveys the very essence of the purposeful, straight-ahead backfield powerhouse. As a rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...
Splattering people on the football field has meant shattering records, and keeping track of Owens' statistics would challenge a computer. Going into the final game of his three-year career last week, he had carried the ball more times (850) for more yards (3,606), more touchdowns (54) and more points (324) than anyone before him in the history of major-college football. He also had a string of 17 straight games in which he gained at least 100 yds. against defenses invariably keying...
...Also, the home team knows its courts better so its players are ready to take more chances, aim the ball a little closer to the line and make more daring plays. Since visitors are a little more cautions. I'd say the home team has an advantage of about four points a game. "Four points wasn't enough handicap for Amherst...