Word: basket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affable Alf" Conflin finally jumped into the lead in the Dunster game on a foul shot. But teammate "Dead Eye" Elberle stood over the black line under the basket, so the point was cancelled...
Buckley, who was playing forward, then took advantage of a fast break to sink a well-timed basket to bring his team within four points of the Big Red, but this was the end of the threat...
High point of anotherwise drab evening of basketball for the crowd of 4000 was Stewart's sensational shot as time ran out in the first half. The brilliant sharpshooter's 61 foot set shot was the longest basket ever scored in the annals of Barton Hall...
...afternoon was the Kirkland-Adams fray. Although the Deacons led eight to nothing at the half, the Gold Coasters overcame this disadvantage and tied the game up 21 all when the final whistle blew. The game was still deadlocked after the first extra period, each team having made one basket. But Ramer Holtan of Adams broke up the game in the "death" period by scoring a goal...
When Bunks Burditt's basket put Harvard ahead 52 to 50, the crowd started to leave, thinking that the game was as good as over. But Captain Ed Lloyd and Lawry took advantage of the fatal Crimson lapse to score two all-important baskets before the whistle sounded...