Word: cobb
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...rookie season, Hoy led the league with 82 stolen bases and finished with 594 thefts by the time he retired after the 1902 season. That many stolen bases is enough in itself to entitle him to a posthumous spot in Cooperstown, as only Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Max Carey and Honus Wagner swiped more during Hoy's lifetime...
Meanwhile, B.C. was hitting an obnoxious 64.5 per cent from the floor, thanks mainly to the hyper-active play of guard Ernie Cobb (ten points in first half) and center Bob Bennifield (12 points), Chestnut Hill's answer to young Connie Hawkins, who blocked four Harvard shots during the course of the game...
Harvard drove right at B.C.'s zone, getting layups and drawing fouls. A three-point play by Hooft at 13:53 and a free throw by Irion brought the lead down to 51-42 before Cobb went temporarily bananas with two straight steal-hoop jobs...
Rogers' outside shooting and the rebounding of Irion, Hooft and Ackerman cut the margin to seven, where it basically stayed until a Bennifield-from-Cobb three-point play made it 71-61 with 2:00 remaining...
Freshman Julie Cobb describes crew as involving a "strange sort of team interaction...