Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same year Mormon Church President Brigham Young incorporated the University of Deseret (Mormon name for the Utah territory), to "teach all nations all useful arts and sciences" with "instruction . . . brought to the level of the laboring classes...
...Square Garden last week the St. John's basketball team did everything wrong but shoot at its own basket. For a topflight team, their ball handling was wretched, their close-in shooting slovenly. With 45 seconds to play and St. John's three points behind, all that Utah had to do to score an upset victory was to freeze the ball until time ran out. Then prosperity went to Utah's head...
Instead of freezing the ball, a Utah player tried for an easy lay-up shot. He missed. St. John's recovered the ball, and before 18,000 fans realized what was happening, the score was tied. St. John's won in overtime, 51-50. Later, when his hands stopped clenching and unclenching, St. John's sandy-haired Coach Frank McGuire was asked by sportwriters to explain how his off-again-on-again boys had gone undefeated through eleven straight games and become the nation's No. i college team.-Said McGuire, who has coached at Roman...