Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting at center for the East, the baby-faced redhead beat Wilt Chamberlain on the opening tipoff, charged to the basket, gathered in a rebound and popped in the first two points. Moments later he banked in another jump shot. Then he quickly scored on a fast break, stole the ball and started yet another assault. Never letting up, the irrepressible Cowens led the East to a 104-84 victory and hustled off the Chicago court with the game's Most Valuable Player honors...
Against a 5-11 Columbia squad Saturday night in New York City, the cagers played one of their poorest games of the season. Neither the Crimson nor the Lions were able to find the basket with any frequency during the contest...
...task of pacifying him, of explaining the situation, or occasionally making him see that he is asking for the impossible, may be both hard and unavoidable. A familiar classmate who rides his hobbyhorse into the office is likely to be attacked bodily, and dumped into a huge waste-paper basket near the telephone box, provided enough editors are present. The most exciting of all the morning interruptions can be caused by an angry business manager, who comes waving a printer's bill for extra work...
...Wolfe picked up the scoring slack for the Crimson, and Harvard once again grabbed a commanding lead, this time by 11 points. The two teams traded baskets but with about five minutes left. Dartmouth again began to chip away at the Harvard lead. A basket by Rick Jones brought the Big Green within four points with just over two minutes left, but Dartmouth missed its last six shots, and Harvard held...
...Northeastern fans were in a frenzy throughout the game and almost started a riot late in the second half. Fitzsimmons made a jesture with the middle finger of his right hand at some black Northeastern fans under the Huskie basket...