Word: hoopster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regular hoopster practice sessions will be inaugurated on Monday following the Thanksgiving weekend, Samborski said, and two games per week for each team will be scheduled, starting two weeks later. The season will include two weeks before Christmas, one week before final exams, and five weeks thereafter...
Dick Eckert and Harry Poole, who pull Harvard's basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers...
...departed George "Bunks" Burditt, Crimson basketball captain for most of the season just passed, was the only Harvard hoopster accorded a post on the all-Ivy League team selected for the Associated Press by the eight coaches in the circuit...