Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breaking a 30-30 tie with but three minutes more to play, Coach Wachter's basket-men staged a last minute spurt Saturday night and in a whirlwind finish downed the Yale five 33-30 at the Hemenway Gymnasium, thus triumphing over the Blue quintet for the second time this year and bringing to a victorious close the second season of organized basketball at the University, a season which numbers in all 17 triumphs out of 22 games played...
...first place, the New Haven five, after having been defeated by all the conference teams, staged a strong spurt last week and unexpectedly defeated the strong Columbia quintet by a 36-28 count, showing unusual power, since the New York five is rated very high in League circles...
...main difference between the two teams lay in the superior excellence of the Dartmouth passing. Time and again, the visitors would pass the ball back and forth in their half of th floor until they had the University yearlings out of position. Then with a fast spurt, one of the Green quintet would shoot out of group of players, dribble the ball down the floor and cage it almost unhindered...
When the teams took the floor for the second half, the Elis were given a tremendous ovation by the prom visitors and when Kernan, the Blue left guard, scored, it looked like a Yale spurt, but the great defensive play of Black and Rudofsky, aided by baskets by McLeish and Gordon and points from free tries by McLeish, checked the rally. Because of the fact that the teams played the type of game shown in the Intercollegiate League, there were few fouls called and both fives played defensive ball throughout...
...defence into confusion and during the first three quarters of the game it was generally the reliable Gilroy, the bulwark of the secondary defence who was needed to stop the Crimson rushers who again and again pierced the Tiger line. On the other hand except for one brief spurt which ended in failure, the Princeton attack seemed unable to gain ground, the passes going amiss and even the elusive Lourie seeming unable to break away for any great distances...