Word: zone
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...their captain, Gene Barth, who is averaging 17.6 points a game and ranks third in the Ivy League. Barth hit 27 points in the last Harvard game, scoring again and again with his deadly set shot. If Harvard's coach Floyd Wilson took his team out of a zone defense as he did against Princeton, the Crimson would probably have an easier time defeating the Bears...
When baseball's potentates enlarged the strike zone by almost a foot recently they had one chief objective: to speed up the game and make it more attractive to spectators. If the change accomplishes this I think it is a good one, despite what the handicap will mean for that noble savage, the .300 hitter...
Football introduced the forward pass, basketball the one-handed shot, and baseball threw out the spitter. Now we have a larger strike zone, but it remains to be seen whether fewer pitches and bases on balls will cure the more deep-rooted ills of the national pastime...
...remained 55-54 in favor of Penn for two sloppy minutes, Quaker coach Bob McCloskey called a time out. When Penn took the floor again, they went into a freeze. Harvard's coach Floyd Wilson stubbornly denied basketball conventions and common sense; he refused to come out of his zone. Penn maintained possession until 1:20, when Bob Inman fouled Penn's high-scoring Sid Amira...
...performing elephants but at the mahouts. One enduring and vulnerable Povich target is Redskins Owner George Preston Marshall. Well aware of Mar shall's reluctance to hire any Negro players,* Povich improvised tellingly and endlessly on the same theme. "There was considerable integration in the Skins' end zone yesterday," went one typical Povich column, noting which Negro on the opposing team had just crossed the Redskin goal line. When Marshall and his movie-star wife Corinne Griffith (they have since been divorced) took a trip...