Word: hooping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sampson took the inbounds, and delicately but swiftly redirected the ball towards the hoop...
...even after Houston tied the game, the Lakers tried to take the final shot and win with a last-second hoop. Laker Byron Scott missed a long jumper and Houston--which had been out-rebounded nearly two to one--retrieved the ball and called time...
Moreover, the article's insinuation that the typical Wellesley student is an old-fashioned domestic is both insulting and erroneous. In relaying the hoop-rolling story, it is significant to note that the prophetic nature of the race has been changed. Instead of being the first to marry, the winner is now deemed as first to be president of a Fortune 500 company. I can also personally state that Weellesley students are striving for more equal give-and-take relationships with men. It is a shame that a dinner cooked once for the special occasion of a birthday was misrepresented...
...fact, Harvard men sometimes pretend that they attend Wellesley. In 1939, a Harvard student dressed up as a girl and entered Wellesley's annual hoop rolling contest. In the race, members of the Wellesley senior class determine which one will marry first by rolling old-fashioned wooden hoops. The Harvard...
...last year it was this very Penn-Princeton weekend which marked the beginning of the end of perhaps the most promising--and disappointing--season in Crimson hoop history...