Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star of the team was towering (6 ft., 8 in.) Center Ed Macauley. He has a deadly eye and a soft southpaw shot that helped him pile up 395 points last season. His teammates, with some reason, call him Easy Ed. Once, when he was gauging the hoop on a crucial foul shot, an opponent tried to throw him off by yelling, "Hey, Ed, your shoe's untied." Without taking his eye from the basket, Macauley drawled: "You tie it for me, Junior, while I make this point." Then he dropped the ball neatly through the hoop...
Soon he was calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the lower lip. In no time the young American was begging O-Yuki to marry...
Christmas vacation to most Harvard students means sitting around the old homestead regaling the parents with the fall's academic and un-controversial achievements, but to the members of the Varsity basketball squad it means an extended tour through the Mid-west, broken only by the three one-night hoop stands which without doubt comprise the roughest part of the Crimson's current season...
Bill Barclay's varsity basketball squad will pay its first visit of the current campaign to what has practically become its home court when the Crimson takes on a potent Boston University five at the Boston Garden tonight at 9.30 o'clock. National champion Holy Cross will open the hoop festivities meeting Valparaiso in the first half of the double-headed program at 8 o'clock...
...cubs fought hard, clawed a sloppy Yardling defense to shreds, but were unable to capitalize on many of their scoring chances. The Freshmen on the other hand tallied almost every time the hoop came into their sights...