Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storrs, Conn, last week, the University of Connecticut buckled down to the job of trying to stop him. With two and sometimes three men guarding him, Tony did not rely solely on his trusty hook shot. He moved for the corners, tossed high-arching one-handed push shots, personally collected 32 points as Yale won, 71-55. As his last point of the game swished through the hoop on a free throw, a big cheer rocked the gym. Lavelli had made his 1,870th point as a Yale basketballer-just enough to tie the major college scoring mark...
...notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period sets and costumes that the final shot is unnecessary: a pastel, picture-postcard rainbow rises out of the subsiding suds and sentiments to arch the happy ending...
Though Huntington and tied up the game in the second period, the Harvard offense did not begin to roll until the final frame. At 6:12 Huntington took a long shot. Moseley grabbed a rebound and shot, then snared the second rebound and scored...
...last 10 seconds of a five minute overtime period, Jim Downey sank a driving layup shot to clinch a 56 to 55 victory for the freshman basketball team over Yale. The hair-raising finish was typical of the game in which neither team ever had more than a five point lead...
Less than a moment before, John Stevenson had stolen the ball from Yale's John Roche and pitched in a one handed shot to put his team ahead 54 to 53. Then Yale took a 55 to 54 lead with about 40 seconds to go and until Downey's eleventh hour shot it looked like Yale would take the see-saw battle...