Word: rick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week when those perennial cellar dwellers, the New York Knicks, lost their sixth out of seven games, 115-109 to the Cincinnati Royals. All in all, the new National Basketball Association season was more of the same, with one big exception: the sensational shooting of San Francisco's Rick Barry...
...N.B.A. Rookie of the Year. Star rookies often suffer from "the sophomore jinx" during their second pro season, but Barry is bombarding the basket at a fantastic rate. Last week he poured in 40 points as the San Francisco Warriors beat the Baltimore Bullets 120-110. After 21 games, Rick was averaging 38.5 points per game-almost seven points more than Cincinnati's Robertson and 14 points ahead of Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, the N.B.A.'s all-time top scorer. And so the Warriors were leading the Western Division by two games...
Scoring two quick touchdowns in the first quarter, Kirkland hung on to blank Calhoun College, 13-0. Rick Scraff scampered around left end for the first score. Minutes later, linebacker Jim Faulkner intercepted a Yale pass, and Greg Studen dove in for touchdown number...
...very tempting to pick Penn over Yale today. Penn, with halfback Cabot Knowlton and possibly star end Rick Owens healthy, could seriously threaten Yale's strong defense. The Eli defense, however, is strongest up the middle, and Penn will have to stick to passing and wide runs...
...guess we need help," admitted Coach George Wilson Sr. For all the careful planning and cute pep talks ("Let's win one for the Flipper"), his Miami Dolphins, playing their first sea son in the American Football League, still had not won a game. Quarterback Rick Norton, a $300,000 bonus rookie from the University of Kentucky, had been intercepted six times in five games. The Miami offense was averaging only 14 points a game, and the defense was taking a pounding. "Those poor boys no sooner come off the field and sit down," sighed Coach Wilson, "than...