Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Los Angeles' Wham-O Mfg. Co., which a decade ago launched the Frisbee and last year revived the Hula Hoop as the Shoop Shoop, does not intend to be caught napping. For Frisbee flyers, whose six-month-old International Frisbee Association now totals 20,000 members, a new indoor model, only 3¾ in. in diameter, is on the market, and has already matched the sales of the conventional model. Latest of Wham-O's line is the Whirlee Twirlee. Something new? Not if you remember the way vaudeville jugglers used to spin plates...
Wilson, the winningest and losingest coach in Harvard hoop history, had long been a target of student criticism for his teams' consistent failures. His removal intitiated an unusually large number of coaching changes...
...basket. On one incredible play, as Lakers Guard Archie Clark was driving in all alone for a layup, Russell roared out of nowhere, making up fully five strides in a single bound, leaped high, and clamped a huge hand over the ball before Clark could drop it into the hoop. "Russell," acknowledged Los Angeles' West afterward, "is the best basketball player I've ever seen. They talk about Wilt Chamberlain, but Russell always rises to the occasion. He is really the most valuable player...
Gallagher turned a Gustavson pass into a three point play. Grate hit successive hanging jump shots, the second after swiping an errant Yale pass. Then Kanuth found Johnson alone under the basket for another hoop. Harvard led 45-34, and although no one would have believed it then, the game was over...
...league hoop circuit, third place Leverett challenges second-place Winthrop tonight. Eliot, on top of the standings with a 10-1 record, tackles Dudley tonight and last-place Dunster on Thursday...