Word: passer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some of the most exciting scoring sprees ever witnessed by modern critics...
Well known to hundreds of newspapermen were all the members of that party. Bradish Johnson, the dead chocolate-passer, was a 26-year-old Manhattan socialite who had spent much of his life in Paris, was taking photographs and sending articles from Spain to Newsweek and The Spur. The other fatality was Ernest Richard Sheepshanks of the British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing...
Last night a late passer-by marveled at the sight of Wigglesworth students studying on the frozen ground outside their entry...
...completing the first team. As Bill Gray's understudy Herrick saw considerable action in last season's games and although still slightly awkward, the six foot six center has greatly improved in handling himself and the ball on the floor. In Lutz, Fesler has found as sure a passer and deceptive a dribbler as any of the more experienced members of the squad...
...team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback Sam Chapman. He is the best punter in the Pacific Coast Conference, a good passer and runner, a fearless ankle-tackler. On the defense Centre Herwig receives sterling support from Guard Claude Evans, one of the most dangerous tacklers in the nation. A possible team weakness is on pass defense, where the backfield is occasionally fooled. California came last week to its annual game with...