Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dressing room before the game, the young giant laced and unlaced his size 13 gym shoes until they were tied just right. He shrugged off sportwriters' questions about his scoring intentions that night, concentrated on taping on a pair of eyeglasses that gave him a Harold Lloyd look. Then George ("Mike") Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers, the hottest player in pro basketball this season, straightened up to his full 6 ft. 10 in. and answered the reporters: "This is just another game...
Tireless and amazingly agile for his size, Mikan kept wearing down fresh men sent in to guard him. He gobbled up rebounds from both backboards, made blind passes on the fast break, fed the ball to his teammates from his pivot slot. When the game was over, the Lakers had won a close one (78-76), and Mike Mikan had added 30 more points to his season's total (1,091) while Fulks was picking...
...inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair. His appetite is prodigious. He has occasionally been known to consume a dozen eggs at breakfast, polish off two steaks after a game...
When even BU, which turned Wednesday's game into an alley fight, terms Army "a rough team," it stands to reason that tonight won't be an easy night for the Crimson. Add to this the fact that traditionally liberal West Point officials will be on hand, and matters become even worse...
...worries are more on the outcome of a coming game of the Business School team which at the present is ahead of the Crimson unit in the Metropolitan C League. A loss for the businessmen would leave them in a tie for first with Wynn's squad which has finished play in that department, and allow it to concentrate on its college and school competition...