Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeds and declarations all had a stirring ring, and there are prophecies that Britain is about to rebound. "The giant is now stirring," says Sir Leon Bagrit, "and at last a determined effort to modernize is about to begin." It had better begin soon. In the new world war of hard international trade, the panzers of the more progressive trading nations are often merciless. With too many gentlemen amateurs still in command, the British economy is still badly outgunned...
...obvious that Eagle coach Bob Cousy had drilled, and drilled, and drilled his charges on the mechanics of the break. As soon as B.C. got a rebound, Austin would barrel down the middle of the court with one player on his left and one on his right. As they passed midcourt, the two men on the outside converged toward Austin, and began to work legerdemain with their passing. Even if two or three Crimson players had scrambled into the backcourt to defend, the only way of stopping the blits was to commit a foul or pray that a B.C. player...
Twenty seconds later Hice of the Eagles was fouled, and stepped to the line in a one-and-one situation. He missed the shot, Harvard rebounded, and burst down the court in a four-on-two fast break. John Scott took a three-foot jump shot, which could have narrowed the margin to three points--and blew it. B.C. got the rebound, and easily ran up the score in the last two minutes...
Harvard can probably shoot better than B.C. and can rebound as well, and the Crimson's ball handling is only slightly inferior. But the Eagles love to run, run, and run some more, and if their fast break enervates the Harvard five, those last ten minutes will be decisive...
Harvard got an insurance goal with a minute left when Njoku dribbled around a Tiger fullback and blasted a shot at Svastich from 35 feet. The Princeton goalie couldn't hold it and Keith Chiappa punched in the rebound for Harvard...