Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball arched lazily toward the basket from the side court and swished through the net. The crowd in the old Philadelphia Arena let go a roar that rattled the rafters. A shy, 24-year-old ex-marine named Joe Fulks had just assured himself of basketball immortality. He had become the first player in modern basketball* to score 1,000 points in one season...
...height (6 ft. 5 in.), long arms and springy legs all help. But his prize asset is a big, soft hand with long fingers that enables him to shoot a "soft" ball; it seems to float lazily from his fingertips, either drops clean or drowzes tantalizingly on the basket rim, then falls...
...have come closer. With four minutes remaining, and the Cornellians ahead 43 to 41, Captain Saul Mariaschin let fly with a long one-hander that dropped in, ostensibly tying the score. Referee Matty Begovich ruled, however, that Mariaschin had fouled Cornell's Ed Arrison on the play, and the basket was nullified. When Arrison's free throw rolled off the rim, six-foot-eight...
...Leverett basket men swung into the lead of the House basketball league last night, as they beat down an aggressive Dunster five, 39 to 34 at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Freshman basketeers edged out a scrappy Andover five 49 to 42 at Andover Saturday, in a day dominated by Yardling losses. Sloppy long shooting by the quintet in the first half left the game at a 19 to 19 deadlock at the mid-point, but a fast-breaking last half offensive, sparked by Captain John Rockwell's basket-filling, put the Crimson...