Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile relay, run against Holy Cross and Brown, an excellent second leg by Al Ruby gave the Varsity a lead it never relinquished. All three runners were bunched closely together at the end of the first 440 yards, but Ruby's spurt and the loss of a baton by the second Holy Cross runner gave Harvard a five yard lead. Flint was pushed slightly in the final hundred yards, but maintained the same five-yard advantage as he breasted the tape...
...shifting defense, the Bruins were able to put two players on Hauptfuhrer in the pivot, a move which all but crippled the Varsity offense. After Gantt broke loose for his three tallies, the Brown team was forced to play Hauptfuhrer more loosely, and George responded with a scoring spurt of his own, scoring eight of his fourteen points after Gantt entered the contest...
...manager of a saloon's ball club. He had knocked around enough to pick up flavor for a thousand short stories, and he was soon selling them, at $30 to $100 apiece. Eventually his name on a front cover was said to be good for a 60,000 spurt in a magazine's sales, and he got $5,000 a story...
...Varsity never seemed to lose its touch after the opening spurt, and numerous missed shots and bad passes marked the play of both teams. How the Terriers managed to stay within four points of Holy Cross must remain a local mystery, for the B.U. squad showed little in the way of court finesse...
...close game for the first eight-and-a-half minutes, when the Varsity trailed 11 to 9, but the Holy Cross club came on with a spirited offensive spurt of five quick baskets for a commanding lead. Besides Kaftan, whose work beneath both baskets was the finest play of the evening, the victors had in guard Ken Haggerty a set-shot specialist who caged five two-pointers in the second half from outside the foul circle...