Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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North Carolina, the nation's No. 4 team, blew an eight point lead in the final seven minutes of regulation time as its attempt to stall and run out the clock backfired...
...launchers, and contestants were separated into nonprofessionals and professionals (subscribers or people employed in aviation). As the paper planes swooped, looped and soared around the 96-ft.-high dome, Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel, 52, called out the maneuvers on a p.a. system: "There's a snap stall-a pair of Immelmanns and a chandelle-a barrel roll-and a series of butterfly dives...
...freeze" or "stall" is one of the oldest tactics in basketball-although it is clearly a violation of the spirit, if not the substance, of modern rules. Any college coach with a late lead to protect will order his boys to keep the ball away from the other team by holding it, passing it back and forth, refusing to shoot for the basket. Now a new fad is sweeping the courts: the game-long stall. Within a week, three of the nation's top teams have been bedeviled by opponents who set out to win by just standing there...
First to feel the chill was No. 4-ranked Princeton, the Tiger of the Ivy League and favored by 40 points over Dartmouth, a team it had already whipped 116-42. Dartmouth went into a stall at the opening tap-off; not a shot was taken for ten minutes, only 30 were taken in the entire game. Princeton won, 30-16, but Dartmouth Coach Dave Gavitt insisted: "If our shooting percentage had been better, we might have beaten them...
...Personally, defensive wrestling is something I can't do very well," says Henjyoji. Since he has four pins to his credit already, no one wants Henjyoji to try, but he does concede some advantages to "stall" wrestling...