Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Bob Bowditch put the Crimson ahead on a jump shot at the outset of the extra period, Bruins Dave Reed, Cliff Ehrlich, John Dellavance, and Al Diussa put the home side in front for good. The varsity fought hard to catch up, but Brown managed to hold the five point lead until the final buzzer...
...call cost us 80?," says Colts' General Manager Don Kellett. "We've come out so far ahead, it looks like a swindle." With a shot at the starting quarterback job part way through the 1956 season. Unitas, now grown to 190 Ibs., compiled the highest pass completion percentage (55.6) of any rookie pro passer in history. In 1957 he led the league in passing yardage (2,550) and touchdown passes (24), was named the league's most valuable player. This season, more than any other man, he has been the spark of the Colts' title drive...
...marshal, fires paraffin-loaded shells that would make the bad hombres of yesteryear laugh themselves sick. Before making the draw, he must keep his hand on a button four inches from the holster. When his hand leaves the button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants fix a man-sized target, are timed from draw to bullet's impact...
Club members everywhere were aghast last week when one Jack Bender of Chicago, practicing with real bullets in his Buntline Special model, accidentally shot and killed his 14-month-old son (whom he had named Wyatt Earp). They quickly pointed out that he was not affiliated with any club. Cried Dillon: "Anyone using live ammunition is like a drunken driver. He is simply asking for trouble...
...Crimson had a chance to win in regulation time, but McClellan missed a foul shot attempt after the final buzzer to send the contest into overtime. And when New Hampshire ran off 10 straight tallies at the outset of the extra period, it was all over, as they held...