Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced yesterday by the Athletic Association was the schedule for the 1944-45 hoop season. In a friendly gesture designed to cheer wounded veterans, games have been scheduled with several Service Hospitals in the State. These games will be played in addition to contests with Army and Navy teams and college outfits inside the 50 mile radius set for informal Crimson teams...
...told the people the story behind Minister Ralston's resignation. Pressed by reporters for the facts, he grumped: "Everything speaks for itself." For another thing, he was now vulnerable to accusations that he was playing politics. By hewing to his no-compulsory-combat policy, he had thrown a hoop around Quebec, enhanced his chances of winning the important bloc of Quebec seats in the next election...
...conviction, shared by almost no one, is that he is a born comedian. His producers discreetly shelve scripts he painfully prepares for them. He idolizes the comic ease of Bing Crosby. His associates readily forgive Eddy such blatant clowning as hiding from the director under Jeanette MacDonald's hoop skirts. Frugal, suspicious, Eddy is nevertheless as honestly congenial as a puppy...
scoring in the first two minutes of the period. Belanger threw in a foul and then the Crimson sent five successive baskets through the hoop before the sailors tallied next on a shot by the same Belanger. Then Harvard added two more, to bring the tally to 36 to 32. Ray Moley scored three of the seven baskets on the three successive attempts...
Norm Cameron of Leverett was the league's high scorer, amassing a total of 116 points. Teammate Danny Garelick was next with 97, John Vergobbi, of Dudley, scored 79, Winthrop's Jim Foust dropped 71 through the hoop, and Len Cummings, end on the football team, playing for Dudley, was fifth with...