Word: keaney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other coaches grumble about his firehouse brand of basketball. "I know they hate it," says cocky Coach Frank Keaney of Rhode Island State. Long ago he quit concentrating on defense and worked up an exaggerated fast-break style. Says he: "We will give anybody 100 points if we can get 101." Every man on his squad knows that he has to throw rather than dribble, outrun rather than outskill the opposition-and keep running. The fans love...
...conservative New England came Rhode Island State, an up-&-coming agricultural college, to make its debut in the Big Time. New York fans had heard fantastic tales about Little Rhody. It boasted the highest-scoring basketball team in the U. S. Its coach Oldtimer Frnak Keaney, taught a razzle-dazzle game based on a simple formula: "Just let the kids shoot baskets- the defense will take care of itself." One of Keaney's boys, StanleyModzelewski, had scored a record 509 points in 22 games last year. Little Rhody had lost only twelve games in the last five years...
Last week in the Garden, Keaney's sharpshooters played St. Francis College, highest scorers (per game) in metropolitan New York. Keaney's son, the team's captain, was rumored to be bigger than the State of Rhode Island. He proved to stand only 6 ft. 4 and weigh only 270 Ib. What he could do on a basketball court looked problematical to most fans. But they soon found out : hovering under the St. Francis basket, young Keaney snatched every ball off the backboard, heaved it the length of the court to his teammates, clustered around their...
...Most coaches hate the way we play," drawled Coach Keaney. "But we play a spectators' game." Sixteen thousand goggle-eyed fans agreed...