Word: layup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last 10 seconds of a five minute overtime period, Jim Downey sank a driving layup shot to clinch a 56 to 55 victory for the freshman basketball team over Yale. The hair-raising finish was typical of the game in which neither team ever had more than a five point lead...
...outcome of the game was in doubt for precisely two minutes, right at the start. Johnny Rockwell, who led team scoring with 16 points, put the Crimson ahead 1 to 0 with the first of eight free throws, and Dick Covey followed up with a layup to make it 3 to 0. Then Holy Cross took over. Andy Laska hit from 20 feet out, Frank Oftring put in a charity toss, and Dermie O'Connell scored to pull his team into a 5 to 3 lead...
...Huskies will send out an all-senior forward group of center Inga Walsh, the captain, Charles Diehl and Tom Blair. All three have been playing varsity ball for Northeastern for two years. Walsh is the big man. The six-foot-four former Milton High School athlete has a layup shot just as crisp as his crew haircut, and he handles the ball with considerable adroitness. Creedon and Landini, both sophomores, are the guards...
Johnny Rockwell had been fouled while putting in a layup just as the buzzer sounded, and had then sunk the charity toss to make the score 55-50. But the referees went into huddle, decided the timing device had bee wrong, and disallowed both the basket and the foul. Rock hopes to get that one back plus a couple more tonight...
Trailing 20 to 15 at the half, the Puritans managed to regain the lead early in the third period, only to lose it again after Joe Flynn, high scorer for the winners with 12 points, followed two foul shots with a layup and a one-armed push shot from the keyhole...