Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful, 175-lb. French Canadian, Maurice Richard is deservedly the highest-paid player in hockey ($9,000 a year). He has a whiplike getaway: in three strides he can be at full speed; he doesn't telegraph his goal shots: the puck is in flight almost before the goalie knows Richard has snapped his stick. His only serious shortcoming, which Howie Morenz did not share, is a weakness on back-checking; critics call him a "one-way player." But his scoring strength offsets that defect...
George Hauptfuhrer's 14-point effort in the Varsity's losing performance at Hanover Wednesday night established a new season scoring record for a Crimson basketball player. The six-foot-four-inch center has totalled 329 points in 20 games, eight points higher than Wyndol Gray's total of 321 points last season...
...toward the basket from the side court and swished through the net. The crowd in the old Philadelphia Arena let go a roar that rattled the rafters. A shy, 24-year-old ex-marine named Joe Fulks had just assured himself of basketball immortality. He had become the first player in modern basketball* to score 1,000 points in one season...
...Lapchick, basketball coach at St. John's and alumnus of basketball's legendary Celtics' team, has seen basketball's greats for 34 years. Says he of Fulks, "The greatest offensive player I have ever seen. He is to basketball what Babe Ruth was to baseball." Says Joe Fulks, "They give me the ball and I shoot. That's all there...
...days when one player was allowed to shoot all fouls for his team, Willie Kummer of the Connellsville (Pa.) team scored 1,404 points in 1911-12, including some 900 foul shots...