Word: capua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rookies of the N.I.B.L., the cocky Truckers showed no more respect for the champs than big-rig drivers barreling through Sunday traffic on their way to the loading platforms. Wyoming's little Joe Capua and North Carolina's Jerry Vayda gave it the old college try, kept the Truckers in contention all the way. Marquette's Terry Rand almost broke up the ball game in the final minutes with a curling hook shot from the keyhole. This was competition the like of which Phillips Olympic Veterans Chuck Darling, Bill Houghland, Jim Walsh and Burdy Haldorson had never...