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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard shot coldly in the first half as is its wont. Only Jeff Grate's incredible bombing kept the Crimson in the game. The 6-0 senior who burst on the scene two years ago with great promise finally began to find the basket after a disappointing season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Bows to Brown, 66-60; Wilson's Final Home Contest Tonight | 3/2/1968 | See Source »

...half, Brown led by a point, 35-34, on a last second basket by 5-8 guard Rick Landau. Harvard had trailed most of the period with the biggest Bruin lead being 6 with eight minutes left in the half. But Chris Gallagher, Grate, and Bob Kanuth (on a pass from Bobby Johnson) all scored to bring Harvard back into the game and the teams traded points until the buzzer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Bows to Brown, 66-60; Wilson's Final Home Contest Tonight | 3/2/1968 | See Source »

...their favorites had to go down, how better than at the hands of Bobby Hull? For the sight of Robert Marvin Hull, 29, leaning into a hockey puck is one of the true spectacles of sport-like watching Mickey Mantle clear the roof, or Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar of his blazing sport. A legion of partisans call him "the Golden Jet" and "Mr. Hockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Hawk on the Wing | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...same graceful motion, Johnson gunned the ball to Gustavson underneath the basket, and the 6-3 junior dropped it in to put Harvard ahead...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Crimson Cagers Upset Pennsylvania, 69-67 | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

Harvard kept its fullcourt man-to-man press on, and, trying for the ball and a clinching basket, Mickey Norlander fouled Penn's 5-8 gunner guard Steve Pearsall. Fortunately for Harvard, Pearsall choked the one-and-one opportunity...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Crimson Cagers Upset Pennsylvania, 69-67 | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

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