Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcoholics Anonymous. Also on hand to underline the horrors of strong drink: a psychiatrist who had treated her (Announcer Edwards described Lillian as having suffered from "impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity"); a brother-in-law who had paid her bills; such glamorous foul-weather friends as Lita Grey Chaplin and Ruby Keeler...
...seem trite intangibles, but they were the main factors behind the Crimson's triumph. The varsity's defense was poor, the shooting was way off, and the offensive rebounding was often absent. Nevertheless, the team won partly by outscoring the Jumbos, 25 to 21, from the foul line, and by managing to score at the crucial times...
Harry Sacks again led the Crimson scorers with 20 points, mostly on short pivot shots. Bill Dennis shot nine foul shots to pace the fourth-quarter spurt. Ed Condon, Dick Manning, and Forrest Hansen also contributed several points at critical moments; Condon's set shot pulled the Crimson up to a late 62-all tie and his foul shot put it in front to stay shortly after, with three minutes left in the game...
...they tried to make the rule a little more severe on the fouler; only I don't think it's helped. The scores have gone up slightly, and it's probably helped the poor foul shooter. But as far as I can see, it hasn't cut down the amount of fouling...
Heaward Hobsen, Yale basketball coach, whose team will also be left off the list of the select ten, has a solution to the problem that Shepard likes. Hobsen suggested widening the foul lanes to twelve feet. This would cut down a lot of the fouling committed during scrambles for rebounds, but Shepard likes another aspect...