Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engineers dominated play through the first half of the first period. The ball almost constantly remained near the Crimson goal--and twice it was a combination of blind luck and Stone's agility which prevented them from scoring. Once, a Tech attackman lined a hard shot to the left of the goal which Stone managed to deflect, and a few minutes later no one could kick in a ball which rolled around the Crimson cage for nearly a minute...
Late in the period, Crimson attackman Dave Bohn thrust in his first score of the afternoon on a long pass from Charlie Devens. But Tech's All-American midfielder Fitzgerald managed to knot the score with a shot from the left which Stone just missed...
...wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly all its forward speed by the time it reaches the front wall, skitters...
...exhibition in Tempe, Ariz., 18-year-old Dallas Long, the University of Southern California's prodigious freshman (6 ft. 5 in., 245 Ibs.), sent the 16-lb. shot soaring 64 ft. 2 in., unofficially smashing the world's record by the startling margin of a full foot...
...field events. Jim Doty finished a creditable second to Army's Ed Bagdonas in the hammer, and John deKiewiet surprised the favored Cadet high jumpers by winning the event with a 6 ft., 1 1/2 in. leap. Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen took second and third in the shot, and Stan Doten and John Bronstein added four points in the discus...