Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale's high-scoring forward, Tony Lavelli, was named to the Associated Press All-America collegiate basketball team yesterday. Selected by a vote of 404 sportwriters, the team also includes Ed Macauley, of St. Louis, Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, of Kontucky, and Vince Boryla, of Denver...
...Sparked by their 6 ft. 8 in. All-America, "Easy Ed" Macauley, one of the leading college basket ball teams of the year...
...given night, Pivotman Macauley was good for at least 18 points a game. But because L.I.U. double-teamed him (he had two men guarding him), he didn't bother to shoot much. He just kept feeding the ball to the open man. The Billikens led at half time 38-20, and the crowd was disappointed when they didn't pour it on in the second half. But the Billikens were content just to win (58-47). Macauley had scored only 10 points, but he had set up most of the rest...
...piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley and Forward Joe Ossola helped make Hickey's theories work...
...Easy Ed Macauley, 20, the best college basketball player in sight this season, seems part giraffe and part gazelle. Deadly with his one-armed hook shots, he is even better on defense. Against Holy Cross, he held talented George Kaftan scoreless from the floor; for one period he did the same thing to Kentucky's great Alex Groza. To opponents, his nonchalance is frustrating. In the Canisius game, the enemy's pivot man tried guarding Ed too closely. Result: the Canisius star wound up on the bench in tears, out of the game on personal fouls with...