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...managers expressed it yesterday, the idea this year will be to work the ball under the basket by well-integrated plays, "so that any member of the team can take any shot called for." This may not be so exciting as seeing Wyndol Gray take a favorite one hand flip shot, but the general opinion around the coaching bench is that more integrated team play is the kind of ball best suited to the present material...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

Much of this vertical magnitude is lodged in Texan Pat Dalley, who reaches six feet six inches into the air and has the breadth and depth as well to hand out plenty of punishment under the basket. Having served three years in the Army before heading Cambridgeway, Dalley is the only veteran on the squad and is slated to handle the-pivot post as center...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Freshman Basketball | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...front of Dailey is a pair of six feet three inch forwards, John Rockwell and Frank Lionette. Rockwell comes by his basketball ability naturally, hailing from Indians, which is reputed to have a basket and backboard in every backyard. A domon under and around the hoop, Rock can also toss in a neat hook-shot...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Freshman Basketball | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

Coming from Everett High Lionette plays a local brand of basketball, giving Berg the typical problem of a Freshman coach-synthesizing the various sectional styles into one. Frank boasts a wicked pivot-shot from the basket and plays heads-up defensive ball...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Freshman Basketball | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

Three days after the crash the first of the helicopters dropped down out of the sky. Even a helicopter could not land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Death in the Fog | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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