Word: gym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the swimming team is enjoying its moments of glory during the long-awaited Yale meet this weekend, the varsity basketball team will be finishing a season of lost hope against Penn at Philadelphia's Palestra tonight and against Princeton at Dillon Gym tomorrow. In its final game the Crimson will meet Yale at the IAB Wednesday...
Pure Product. In almost every way, Cincinnati's Robertson is a pure product of the sport of basketball as it has developed in, the U.S. The game was invented in 1891 in Springfield, Mass, by a gym instructor named Jim Naismith, who wanted to give his bored classes a switch from the daily grind of calisthenics. Today basketball is played with eager enthusiasm and improving skill by some 50 nations from Chile to China, but it has remained a distinctly American game. Its virtues are obvious : any number can play, indoors or out, in all seasons. It requires nothing...
...than a sport -it is the most important event on winter's social calendar. Once the winter wheat is in the ground in towns like Sharon Springs, Kans., there is little else to do but watch the games on Tuesday and Friday nights in the $190,000 school gym, the grandest building in the county. In Ohio, the citizens of Bethel Township regularly drop past Ray Morrison's general store to rock on their heels around the stove and talk of the local high school team (12 and 6 this season) and of Ohio State University...
...fans of Ohio and Kansas will admit that the biggest, noisiest and best basketball state of them all is Indiana, where every boy seems to be born with a hook shot and a stutter-step dribble. No one in Indiana sees anything odd about the fact that the gym in Huntingburg holds 6,300 persons, although the town's total population is 4,000. Folks from out of town just naturally want to drive in to see the games. Each March, Indiana explodes in the wildest high school tournament in the nation-four frenzied weekends of play that consistently...
...Gains. The best of Tanny's gyms are modern, clean, superbly equipped, often house under one roof the gym, a swimming pool, steam rooms, an ultraviolet tanning room, even a private bowling alley. Moreover, Tanny's tactics have paid off. Since he gave up teaching junior high school and opened his first gym in 1935. sales have developed to $24 million a year. Tanny owns all his 80 clubs outright, together with six companies that service them with everything from exercise machines to health foods. He opened 35 new gyms last year at a cost...