Word: boykoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make all-something-or-other in high school or college. The Crusaders, who will be playing their first game of the season tonight, must be conisdered one of the powers in Eastern intercollegiate basketball circles this year. Evidence of this was provided recently when they scrimmaged St. John's Boykoff & Co. to a three hour, 136-136 standstill...
Previously announced nominations for the Eastern squad include N.Y.U.'s Sid Tanenbaum and Frank Mangispane. Dartmouth's Bob Myers, St. John's Harry Boykoff, Temple's Tem Joyce, colgate's Ernie, Vanderwaghe, Pittaburgh's Harry Zeller, Muhienberg's Harry Deaovan, Navy's Ken Shugart, and spectacular Eirnie Calverley of Rhode Island State...
Like St. John's, whose basketball more than supports all other sports, Wyoming is a basketball college and this was its biggest year. To match the Indians' Boykoff, the Cowboys had 6 ft. 7 Milo Komenich, like Boykoff one of the season's leading scorers (401 points) and one of the few Eiffel-tower basketballers who can really play the game. The Cowboys also had a supporting cast all at least 6 ft. 3-with one exception. The exception, a little dynamo named Kenny Sailors, made it tough for St. John...
...Small Boy. While Giants Boykoff (17 points) and Komenich (20 points) battled each other almost to a standoff, Sailors was all over the court, again & again drove like a P-38 through the St. John's team to pour the ball through the basket. With two minutes to play, St. John's, eight points behind, seemed beaten. But it was not quite...
...began to close the margin; with 30 seconds left, fiery little Hyman Gotkin stole the ball from a Wyoming player, passed down the floor and amid the wildest pandemonium the Garden has ever seen, tied the score for St. John's just before the whistle blew. Big Boy Boykoff picked up Teammate Gotkin in his arms, ran shouting up & down the floor with...