Word: dunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield Frank Miklos, recovered from an early-season injury, is the quarterback, with Tommy Sullivan and Jim Rossitor at the halfback positions. Dunk Mauran starts at fullback...
...tall boys had run away with basketball. When they could simply dunk the ball into a 10-ft.-high basket, what chance did a little fellow have, who had to shoot? Basketball's No. 1 thinker, Coach Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen of the University of Kansas, who had been turning the matter over in his mind for ten years, last week had a chance to try his remedy. The remedy: raise the baskets...
...skyscraping (average: 6 ft. 5 in.) New Mexico School of Mines team played against a team of comparative shorties (average: 5 ft. 11 in.), Drury College from Missouri. The higher hoops didn't work out quite the way Phog Allen expected. Sure enough, the big boys could dunk no more and had to shoot-but the little fellows had to shoot even higher. The biggies won easily. Chief troublemaker was basketball's tallest player, New Mexico's 7 ft. 1 in. Elmore Morgenthaler, who calmly tossed 41 points...
...Chief threat (if invited): Oklahoma A. & M., champs of the Missouri Valley, coached by stern Hank Iba, whose players call him "Sir." A. & M.'s crack team (which has lost only two games) is paced by 7-ft., high-scoring (58 points in one game) Bob Kurland, whose "dunk shot" is thrown down through the hoop, not up to it. Another contender: Ohio State, the Big Ten victor (won 14, lost...
...move or I'll shoot!"), went on to a cottage, kicked the doors in, tried to set the place afire, was grabbed by a posse. Cried the goggle-eyed judge who sent him to the State reformatory (with a sentence of from two to 14 years): "Biggest dunk ever pulled in this county...