Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia refused to wilt, and quickly narrowed the margin down to five again. At this point, Tom Tangeman came off the Crimson bench to spark another Harvard scoring burst. He scored all his 13 points in the final 11 minutes of the game...
...101n. frame until it seemed to tower over the taller Chamberlain. When Warrior guards tried to feed Pivot Man Chamberlain with soft, overhead passes, Russell was there-arms flailing-to bat the ball away. When Chamberlain leaped for his famed "fallaway" push shot, Russell leaped with him leaning into Wilt just enough to disturb his delicate aim. By half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only in the second half, when Russell relaxed, did Chamberlain begin to click. By game's end, the duel...
...varsity's bid for a perfect season failed because captain Mark Mullin, Ed Hamlin, and Eddie Meehan showed the effects of fighting the good fight all season long in sickness and in health, and because a fired-up Princeton team and refused to wilt as the Crimson set a man-killing early pace...
Power, pitching, defense, and adaptability will decide the Series. Okay, so the Yankees have the power. But the Reds have the pitching; O'Toole, Jay, and Purkey are good strong throwers who have fought their own battles all season long and are not likely to wilt. Once you get past Ford (and maybe Terry), the Yankee staff consists of effective but short-term hurlers. And this is being more than kind to Ford (and maybe Terry...
...After his Philadelphia Warriors lost three straight games to Syracuse early in the N.B.A. playoffs, lantern-jawed Neil Johnston quit as coach, convinced he could never handle Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who runs a one-man show on court...