Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the smooth boys we've seen in Section B are: Woody Rider, former Kirksville (Mo.) flash; "Tex" Thomas, Texas U.; D. P. Morrison, Ohio State; Paul (the Great) Smith, Oklahoma whiz; Lynn Keefe, Illinois; and Shuffett, a good man on any team...
This Camp Thomas team is embodying a last year's tradition that service basket-ball squads are good teams. With the possible exception of Illinois' "Whiz Kids," the post-Olympic Norfolk Naval Training Station team and the college all-star Great Lakes squad were the best in the nation...
...recently handed the University of Southern California its first defeat in 16 games. If they had not decided to pass up the N.C.A.A. tournament because it would keep them too long away from their books, the favorites for the national championship would have been the University of Illinois' Whiz Kids...
...Whiz Kids are regarded reverently by many Midwest sportswriters as the greatest basketball team of all time. Last week, as they wound up their season with a 92-to-25 massacre of the unathletic University of Chicago, Douglas Mills's Kids chalked up four Big Ten team-records: highest score for a single game, most field goals for a single game (41), most points for a season (755 in twelve games), most field goals for a season (325). Undefeated in Conference play, the Kids had won the Big Ten championship two years...
Under normal conditions, the Whiz Kids could play basketball another year. But the long arm of the Army will probably break up the combination. Andy Phillip, a member of the Marine Reserve Corps, may not be called before his graduation next February. When told that he might have to be the entire team next year, he replied earnestly: "I couldn't do that...