Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delegates to the national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show...
...only as long as they keep out of politics. "We are not going to fight for God's body. We don't fight so that coffins may cover other coffins. That's what the Crusades were fought for. How can we understand it when clergymen throw holy water on guns? They are Pharisees...
...Free throw accuracy plus a couple of timely field goals gave the Crimson captain, forward Dick Woolston, 11 points. He completed seven of eight field goal attempts. Bryant Danner, the team's 6 ft. 4 in. center, scored ten points, but made his major contribution under the boards, where he took 21 rebounds, nearly two-thirds the opposing team's total...
Muncaster scored the first basket of the game, and made nearly all the Crimson field goals during the first 15 minutes. The Middlebury squad fouled frequently and only free throw accuracy kept the Crimson in front...
...preliminary event, the freshmen, coached by Bruce Monro, overcame the junior varsity 68 to 52. Bob Bowditch was high scorer for the winning squad with 30 points. He sank 13 from the court and four from the free throw line...