Word: hoop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without fanfare, well aware that it could not steal the spotlight from U. S. football even if its players wore hoop skirts and plumed hats, last week major-league hockey quietly sidled into the North American sport scene at Chicago and Toronto. At Chicago the World-Champion Chicago Blackhawks auspiciously began their five-month defense of the Stanley Cup by trouncing the New York Americans, 6-to-1. At Toronto the powerful Boston Bruins, generally regarded the best team last year despite Chicago's winning the title, nosed out the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...year before Gullion went to Tennessee his hoop team at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, won the Indiana Intercollegiate championship with 24 victories and no losses...
...story of Temple Commune in Jericho Centre, N. Y. The Temple was a group of 65 farmers who worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore short tunics and ankle-length bloomers instead of world's clothes: hoop skirts and petticoats. Its men feared God and would do anything in the world for old Father Swann, once he got talking. The main building where the Templers slept had an elaborate lacy cornice and rounded corners to keep out evil spirits: Father Swann had built it according to the specifications...
...Elis hit the hoop with monotonous regularity, while the Yardlings were unable to cope with the court, which had been polished the preceding evening for the Junior Prom. Their attack, relying chiefly upon faking and cutting rather than height, was completely destroyed...
Four starters and two substitutes finish their Harvard basketball careers tonight in the concluding game of what may be the Crimson's best hoop season, against the Eli quintet in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8:45 o'clock...