Word: basket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that intercollegiate competition is the chief impetus to athletics, then the athletics-for-all policy, Harvard's extensive intra-mural program, and President Lowell's theory of the Greek as opposed to the Roman ideal of athletic competition may all just as well be relegated to the scrap basket. Furthermore the figures on the number of men engaged in intercollegiate sports and those engaged in frankly intramural competition are so convincing on this point that it need scarcely be considered further. In dealing with the class of men to whom only extra-mural athletics count, one is dealing with...
...going to work. The primary consideration seems to be that residence in them is by no means compulsory. Application blanks were sent to everybody, and those who wanted to enter into the new system could fill them out; others could throw them in the waste basket. It was significant that a large number of the students applied, and those to whom we talked seemed very enthusiastic about...
From that moment, however, the Crimson quintet took the game over into their own hands. Captain Wenner started the rally with three quick baskets, and a foul shot for Harvard put the score at 10 to 8 with Army still in the lead, although by a much reduced margin. The Crimson's cause brightened considerably more when Mahady veteran Crimson forward, looped a shot from the middle of the floor into the basket, tying the score. Shortly after, Wenner put the Crimson into the lead with his fourth tally of the evening...
...golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements to Mexico City, where it ranks next to bullfighting; to Havana, where another...