Word: rafter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson netminder turned away 15 Boston College shots last night at the Boston Garden, leading his icemates to a stick-breaking, rafter-shaking, ice-melting, give-me-a-hug 2-0 victory, for the Crimson's first Beanpot win since...
...ball sailed high, nearly rearranging the dust on an ancient IAB rafter, then fluttered down quickly--one Kirkland House junior will long remember exactly...
...Cowens with only his personally written epitaph as a goodbye. But Arnold Auerbach remains, and the boundless ability of the oldest Celtic of them all is why the Celtics--infinitely capable of finishing third in the NBA Atlantic Division--might instead garner another green and white flag for their rafter collection...
Lowell and the rest missed an unrivaled banquet. The day concluded in Cambridge's Union Hall, with a dinner by invitation only for 650 guests. Red, white and blue pennats hung from every rafter. "Upon the center of the wall was a painted female figure, nine feet high, representing the genius of America." The committee charged with reporting on the day's events broke with objectivity when they described the scene--"the general effect was pleasing in the extreme...
...stuff of a hoop fan's dreams. Abdul-Jabbar, the N.B.A.'s five-time Most Valuable Player, the compleat center whose size (7 ft. 2 in.) does not diminish his grace. Julius Erving, the flashy, 6-ft. 6-in. forward from the now defunct A.B.A., whose rafter-clearing leaps and fluid moves earned him the sobriquet Dr. J (as in, watch him operate). Only after a merger of the warring leagues and four years of playoff eliminations did Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers dominate the West and Erving's 76ers conquer the East...