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...height (6 ft. 5 in.), long arms and springy legs all help. But his prize asset is a big, soft hand with long fingers that enables him to shoot a "soft" ball; it seems to float lazily from his fingertips, either drops clean or drowzes tantalizingly on the basket rim, then falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Babe Ruth of Basketball | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Captain Saul Mariaschin let fly with a long one-hander that dropped in, ostensibly tying the score. Referee Matty Begovich ruled, however, that Mariaschin had fouled Cornell's Ed Arrison on the play, and the basket was nullified. When Arrison's free throw rolled off the rim, six-foot-eight...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Skaters Trip Army as Cornell Tops Quintet, 47-43 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Commuter-Deacon encounter, Dudleyite Jim Coon paced his team with 18 points, while eight Deacons dented the rim to keep the Kirkland scoring even. Dudley's fast break scored early and often and the Commuters never fell behind after the first five minutes of the fray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Five Tops Eliot; Commuters Defeat Kirkland | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

With four consecutive long set shots by Dick Covey denting the rim in the last four minutes of the game, Berg's men came within five points of the prep schoolers, but the fact that Rockwell and Frank Lionette had to be used sparingly because of their personal foul totals prevented the Crimson from capitalizing on the rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Fall to Sparkling Exeter Hoopsters, 64-58 | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

Eight Puritans contributed to the Deacon thrashing which was close until a third quarter Winthrop scoring spree swamped their northern neighbors. Ledger Free was the victor's high scorer but his efforts were closely followed by his teammates, most of whom dented the rim at least once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Downs Kirkland Five as Lowell Also Wins | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

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