Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Manning and Bill Dennis scored in the late moments last night to lead the varsity basketball team out of its seven-game losing streak with an upset 73 to 70 overtime victory over Boston College. Dennis made two field goals and Manning netted three out of four foul shot attempts in the five-minute extra period after the Crimson came from behind to tie the game, 63-all, in the regulation time...
After Dennis dropped in two jump shots, Manning netted a foul shot with three minutes to play, tying the game, 66-all. B.C. froze the ball until the last 12 seconds and then missed three chances for the winning basket before time...
...Foul Rule...
...NCAA rules on fouls are primarily responsible for the sudden scoring increase. The "one-and-one" rule on free throws which allows a player two chances to sink each foul has caused scores to skyrocket...
...took to a life of cadge-as-cadge-can until he got a second chance at Orders in the Scots College in Rome. There he sported a rich repertory of ecclesiastical jokes, ran up bills with a tailor, was expelled again as "lacking vocation." Convinced he had been dealt foul, Rolfe cursed the Church and went on cursing it energetically for the rest of his life-while remaining a Catholic. He borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back...