Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LARRY BIRD. Watching him play stirs pleasant memories for basketball purists: not only can he shoot and rebound as well as the game's legendary forwards; he is an old-fashioned playmaker, a passer who can look one way and hit the open man breaking for the hoop. Averaging 28.6 points a game, Larry Bird, 22, is the second leading college scorer and stands third in rebounds. What is more, he has led his hitherto obscure team through a schedule that reads like the mail drops on the midnight train to Yuma−Wichita State, Tulsa, West Texas State...
...Jankowski knocked in a rebound for his first career goal to give the Big Red a 3-0 lead before a non sequitur briefly interrupted the festivities--Jon Garrity inched the puck past Brain Hayward at 9:34 to give Harvard the cheap thrill of trailing Cornell by only two goals...
Harvard gave new meaning to the words "futile gesture" as it cut the gap to 8-3 in the first three minutes of period two--Millen converted a rebound on a George Hughes post-puncher and freshman Dave Burke, who now leads the Crimson in goals with 15, put home a snapshot from the right face-off circle. Equlibrium was restored on Doug Berk's second marker of the evening, a tip-in of Gemmell's slapper from the point...
Like the Yale victory on Friday night, the Crimson matched up well with the Bruins, who do not possess a dominating giant in the center position. Although giving up some height to the slightly taller visitors from Providence, Harvard still managed to out-rebound the Bruins, 40-31, using their 1-2-1 zone...
...backhanded rebound by Eli winger Penny Stoddart late in the second period broke Nelia Worsley's shutout bid, and Nancy Etzwiler's long, deflected slapper brought Yale even closer with 3:55 left in regulation...