Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just like putting nickels in a slot machine. Max stationed himself under the opponents' basket and stood there unmolested and unreachable while his four teammates hustled around the court. Whenever his four little helpers captured the ball, they heaved it down to Max, who grabbed it in his great leathery hands and dumped it in the 10-ft.-high basket (he could jump to reach 11 ft.). It didn't seem fair, and after a while the crowd began to boo, even though most of them were Walnut fans. The coach took Max out for a quarter...
Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...
Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
Exploiting his height under the basket, Hauptfuhrer has registered most of his markers on tap-ins and pivot hook shots, and on give-and-go combinations with Mariaschin...
...four minutes the Crimson held its own against the shifty, Nassau quintet, but Lawry began to plague the Varsity with astounding accuracy on thirty-foot set shots, Joe Holman caged five consecutive fouls, and Princeton found itself with 27 points at the half. The Crimson couldn't find the basket and scored only...