Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knicks' last game against Milwaukee, he held the highly touted Lew Alcindor to 17 points. Against Boston recently, Reed drove around 7-ft. Center Rich Niemann to sink a reverse layup; seconds later, he went up twice under the Boston backboard to slam away Jim Barnes' layup attempts. When Reed left the game to a standing ovation, he had 27 points and the Knicks had a 25-point lead they held...
Splattering people on the football field has meant shattering records, and keeping track of Owens' statistics would challenge a computer. Going into the final game of his three-year career last week, he had carried the ball more times (850) for more yards (3,606), more touchdowns (54) and more points (324) than anyone before him in the history of major-college football. He also had a string of 17 straight games in which he gained at least 100 yds. against defenses invariably keying...
...does now. Says Iowa State Coach Johnny Majors (against whose Cyclones Owens rolled up 248 yds. and four TDs): "Owens keeps everyone honest. When he just pounds and pounds that middle, he opens them up for the outside game and the passing game...
...Preference. Owens grew up in Miami, a dust-blown town in northeastern Oklahoma, and he always wanted to play for the Sooners. He was six years old in 1953, when Oklahoma started its 47-game winning streak; he was ten when Notre Dame snapped it. "I can't think of anything that brought as much glory to the state as those teams did," he says. "Everybody followed them. When I was working at Hub's Bootery on Main Street, we didn't sell many shoes between noon and 4 on Saturdays...
...disappearing, and the lake has regained 80% of its original clarity. No longer troubled by DDD, the grebes are making a comeback. This year 82 young birds were born in the area, four times as many as last year. But an ecological balance is not easily restored; large game fish now have to be imported to feed on the wildly proliferating silversides. Once the game fish are established, Californians have to learn that the fishing is good at Clear Lake, and then...