Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started all the current whoopee in hoops are Toymakers Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr, 33-year-old owners of the Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of San Gabriel. Calif. Last March, while attending a New York toy fair, they got a tip from an acquaintance on a wooden hoop popular in Australia. Melin and Knerr turned out a score of wooden hoops, did not like them, started experimenting in plastics. In May they made some 3-ft. hoops out of brightly colored polyethylene tubing. Melin field-tested them on some neighborhood children-and a national fad started. From children...
...ball back and forth until baby-faced Sophomore Jerry West broke free, twisted through the air and sank a layup that made the score 75 to 74. Then Schaus's mountain boys got a whopping break. A mix-up between officials gave them the ball under the Villanova hoop. Instantly, a pass flicked in to Star Center Lloyd Sharrar, who arched his 6 ft. 10 in. off the floor and took aim. Two seconds before the gun, his winning shot dropped in. The hustling Mountaineers had overtaken a 14-point lead in ten frantic minutes. Final score: West Virginia...
...watched football on television (Texas 9, Texas A. & M. 7). Late that afternoon, returning from a walk down Forest Lane, Tricia wanted to play basketball, hunted around until she found a soccer ball given Nixon by an Israeli soccer team on a visit to Washington. But they had no hoop-so the Vice President and his daughter tossed the ball back and forth to each other in their backyard...
...started to yell and beat their tom toms in greeting to the Crimson's bus. The queen of the tournament with some of her royal court of Colorado College girls followed the Indians and began passing out cowboy hats and candy to the new arrivals. Thus, with the customary hoop and holler, another hockey team was suitably welcomed to the official NCAA hockey tournament...
Colorado Springs' plush Broadmoor Hotel finances the traveling accommodations of the three teams, gives them free board and lodging throughout the tournament, and provides the traditional Western hoop-la that the tourney affords. Although some feel that this is a publicity maneuver which does not speak well for amateur hockey, one observer expressed today what is perhaps the prevalent opinion of the participating teams: "Everyone has a good time, and besides, if it wasn't for the Broadmoor, there wouldn't be any tournament...