Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Harlem Trotters' tricky, little (5 ft. 7 in.) Marques Haynes scuttled in to score the first basket, the gallery buzzed. No one had forgotten what happened the first time the Trotters played the Lakers last year. After rolling up a comfortable lead over the Lakers, the Globetrotters had nonchalantly started playing for laughs-passing between their legs, setting up a mock pitcher-catcher act, spinning the ball on their fingertips. A newsreel cameraman had recorded the whole humiliating burlesque and Minneapolis never lived it down. Mikan & Co. wiped out part of the humiliation by beating them later...
Playing a superb game, the varsity quintet upset Yale, 57 to 55, Saturday night at the Arena. Ed Smith broke through a cluster of Elis with less than a minute left to play to sink the basket which gave Harvard its first win over the Bulldogs in three years...
Smith's winning jump shot climaxed a frantic last two minutes in which three Elis tossed in quick baskets to put Yale out front, 55 to 54. Then, with a minute left, a cool Bob Bramhall brought the game under control with a foul shot followed two plays later by Smith's basket...
...five took an early lead on Forrest Hansen's basket and foul shot, and was never headed until midway in the second quarter when Newman gained a brief one point lead. But a hook shot by Captain Dick Liomctic put the Crimson in front to stay shortly thereafter...
...defense, except for its failure to stop the set shooting of Joe Holman, held together in the first half--though at the cost of giving the Tigers 16 foul attempts on which they scored 13 points. In the second half the defense crumbled badly, particularly under the basket...