Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Virginia, Thorn seemed something of a gilt-edged bust. An A student in high school, he fretted about missing classes when the team was on the road, stayed up so late studying that his basketball suffered. In a Southern Conference tournament, Thorn fired a shot at the basket from just 20 ft. away -and missed the backboard by 10 ft. Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally," he recalls, "that...
...blue-and green-legged, into the winter days. Suburbanites took to wearing tights to the shopping center, bowling alley or even out to dinner. Manhattan secretaries, used to arriving at the office frozen from the blizzard that began at the subway exit, threw caution into the Out basket and showed up for work in tights. Grandes dames, off through the snow to the party of the year, wore tights beneath their full-length ballgowns...
...assistant at Cincinnati before moving up to the top job. Jucker, 45, is a master of such complicated tactics as the Backdoor Trap and the Swing-and-Go, plays designed to spring a Cincinnati player, all alone, under the enemy basket. He dotes on "the science of percentage basketball, " computes the mathematical odds on the success of every maneuver he orders the Bearcats to make on court. Methodical on offense, Cincinnati concentrates on ball control, passing the ball back and forth, patiently waiting for an enemy defense to make the error that will leave a Bearcat player open...
...Cincinnati; his job is to control the backboards, and his sharp elbows have helped him pull down 81 rebounds so far this year. Forward Tom Thacker, "the tallest 6-ft. 2-in. player in basketball." is so spring-legged that he can get up above the 10-ft.-high basket and "dunk" the ball with both hands-just as the pros' 7-ft. Wilt Chamberlain does. Forward Ron Bonham (6 ft. 5 in.) is a bull-shouldered marksman whose delicate push shot is accurate from as far away as 20 ft., and whose free-throw record...
...CRIMSON brings New York a special edition, a Christmas basket as it were, presented in the philanthropic spirit of the Holidays. Tight-lipped and silent, we stood by for five days while the City went without her newspapers. But the moving pleas of many friends (and not a few enemies) have once again--as in 1958--melted the hoary Cambridge frosts. Yes, New York, there is a Santa Claus...