Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half began. Northeastern quickly ran up a seven-point lead by picking holes in the Crimson's zone defense. Five times center Mike Wallent, playing at the high post, was able to score easy two pointers from inside. Northeastern led, 42 to 35, with 15 minutes...
...Crimson's 1-2-2 zone defense has been functioning very smoothly. It forced Holy Cross to take most of its shots from outside -- and the Crusaders his only 34 per cent from the floor. More than anything, the zone requires a hustling team to make it work. Last year after a few disheartening setbacks early in the season. Harvard stopped bustling and stopped playing good defensive basket ball. Hopefully, that won't happen this season...
...military planners call it "the red envelope." Shaped like a triangular flap, the 10,000-sq.-mi. zone encompasses the industrial heartland of North Viet Nam (see map). Yet, as though sealed off by an invisible cordon, its cluster of strategic installations around Hanoi and Haiphong has hardly been grazed by the war, for the U.S. has proscribed bombing raids on the triangle-save for some Soviet SAM missile sites and a few minor targets-ever since its day-in, day-out raids against the North began last February...
...Twilley is something of an enigma to the scouts: "He has no size and no speed. But he makes the catches." Massachusetts isn't exactly big league, but Morin may be: "Excellent hands, a mighty good blocker, and he kicks off too-clear through the end zone...
First-line right wing Pete Waldinger twice neatly stole the puck in his offensive zone and beat Ledger to up Harvard's goal total to seven...