Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repetto countered with a lay-up, but Ehrlich tied the score on a free throw. Then, after Bowditch hit a jump shot Dellavance again tied it up. With one minute to play, Bowditch put the varsity in front a second time, but Al Poulsen dropped in a hook twenty seconds from the end to send the contest into overtime at 55 all. Reed subsequently missed a foul shot that would have meant a regulation Brown...
Handsome Quarterback Unitas went to work. Throwing hook passes to the side lines that got just enough for vital first downs, he drove the Colts to the Giants' 13. There, with a precious 9 sec. left, Steve Myrha booted the tying field goal...
...University of Cincinnati backboard. Whirling in the air before he hit the floor, he sped downcourt, dribbled expertly past three New York University defenders, plowed in and sank a difficult lay-up shot. Moments later, with the ball in his hands once again, he started to turn for a hook shot. Hit hard by an N.Y.U. player, he fell heavily to the court, but on the way down he somehow managed to arch the ball toward the basket with a flick of his powerful wrists. As he lay flat on his back, Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson watched the ball...
Wesleyan jumped away to an early lead, 17 to 12, but the Crimson hit for five straight points to tie the score. Moving in front on a hook shot by Griff McClellan, the varsity upped its margin to 33 to 26 at the half...
Police Sergeant John McMahon spoted smoke issuing from a window at about 11:15 p.m. His alarm brought two hook-and-ladder units and three engine companies. Firemen entered through the Club entrance on Bow St. and fought the blaze from the interior...