Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always Playing. Haywood was born in Silver City, Miss., the second youngest of six brothers who kept the family's backyard basket always in use. "Not one of them was less than 6 ft. 4 in.," Haywood says of his brothers. "I can't remember not playing basketball. If you didn't play, you got beat up." At 15, Haywood went to live with relatives in Detroit, where he came under the tutelage of Will Robinson, coach of Pershing High, who has since become his legal guardian. After leading Pershing to the state championship in his senior...
Dover, taking a pass from Gustavson steamed in for what looked like a routine layup for the talented guard from New York. But, experiencing the same difficulty with the backboards which had cost him two layups earlier, Dover missed and collided with reserve Don guard Charlie Dullea under the basket...
Fourteen seconds remained. Harrison hoped to isolate one of the big men under the basket, but Harvard had trouble putting the play into operation and finally, Gustavson, who had just made a spectacular save to keep the ball in play threw up a 20 footer from the top of the key. It hit the rim and time ran out before the Crimson could get the ball up again...
...game's start as they jumped out to an 11-6 lead while grabbing the first nine rebounds. But B.C. responded to the pleas of 2200 partisans, and Driscoll netted seven of the Eagles' next nine points to put his team ahead, 15-13, on a fast break basket, B.C. was never behind after that...
Tickets for today's Harvard-Boston College basketball game at B.C. are available only at the ticket office in B.C.'s Roberts Center. The prices are $3 for the floor, $2.50 for the balcony, and $2 for the balcony seats behind the basket...