Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Gralla and his crew spectacularly beat the odds. The weather was foul for all three shots-in the third, Norton Sound was hidden from her escorts by a snowstorm-but the rocketmanship and the seamanship were superb. Each countdown, with 60 Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket...
...captain Betsy Fogarty, bucket guard, and high-scoring forward Tish Emerson, the Annex six were ahead 21 to 16 at the half. In the third period, forwards Miss Emerson, Nancy Morton, and Sandy Witt failed to score from outside the key. They made two out of three foul shots...
Occasionally the Crimson's shotmaking was brilliant, as in the second Yale game (41 per cent). But more often it was just plain lousy, largely because no more than one-fourth of the varsity's attempts came from inside the foul circle. The team average on the year from the floor was a paltry 33.5 per cent, compared to the opponents' 38.3 per cent, a very significant difference...
...took superb shooting from the outside to keep the Crimson in the game, for the Elis were taking almost all of their shots from inside the keyhole, and getting fouled on many of them. In fact, the Crimson tanked two more field goals than the visitors, but fell down at the foul line where Yale held a 26-11 advantage...
...turfdom's grand old veterans, Calumet Farm's seven-year-old Bardstown, responded to the urging of Jockey Steve Brooks, survived a foul claim to win the $137,600 Widener Handicap at Florida's Hialeah Park for the second time (the first...