Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After falling behind with 15:30 left in the game, the Crimson regained the lead, 62-60, with 8:55 to go, on Joe Deerings's set shot. Brown opened another six point advantage at 69-64 before a Crimson rally topped by Lynch's foul tied the score for the final time...
...Bruins' Forrest Broman then hit a long jump shot to put his team ahead with 1:35 to go in the game. Cutting across the foul circle, Gary Borchard charged into Dave Remington, and the guard's one shot increased the margin to three points...
Regaining possession, the Crimson worked the ball until Joe Deering drove in from the right--and kicked the ball out of bounds. Bill Danner rebounded a missed Bruin foul shot, though, and Harvard was still in the game with 58 seconds left...
Elbow Ethics. Implicit in many such methods are tricks of the trade not exactly prescribed by the rules-and indeed N.B.A. officials are lenient of necessity. Admits one referee: "We don't call a foul unless the contact directly involves the play-except once in a while. If we called them all, we'd be blowing those damned whistles all night...
...basketball is "bridging," or "tunneling," in which a defensive man slyly ducks under a player who is driving for a layup. In one celebrated case of bridging, the Celtics' Bob Harris broke the left wrist of Schayes in 1954. Bridging is now rare, as is the unprovoked, intentional foul calculated to injure. "If a guy belts me on a legitimate play, fine and dandy," says Twyman. "I'll belt him down at the other end. But if a guy is dirty, really dirty, he's out to lunch. He can't watch the 80 players...