Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days when one player was allowed to shoot all fouls for his team, Willie Kummer of the Connellsville (Pa.) team scored 1,404 points in 1911-12, including some 900 foul shots...
...Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans...
With four consecutive long set shots by Dick Covey denting the rim in the last four minutes of the game, Berg's men came within five points of the prep schoolers, but the fact that Rockwell and Frank Lionette had to be used sparingly because of their personal foul totals prevented the Crimson from capitalizing on the rally...
...current crop of basketballers are mostly freshmen, small and inexperienced. The star of the team is 5 ft.11 in. Center Jack Allen, a superb dribbler and a deadly shot from just beyond the foul circle. In most of the other positions, Keaney keeps shuttling substitutes in & out with instructions to run until they tire, then signal for relief. By this simple method, which has proved effective in Keaney's 27 years at R.I. State, his fast little men recently trampled powerful St. John's in New York's Madison Square Garden...
Also aiding the Nassau victory was the Tigers' performance at the foul line. Princeton converted 17 of 22 free throws in a foul-fraught contest. The Varsity made a respectable 11 for 15, but the swifter Princeton players were able to draw more penalty shots, a big factor in their triumph...