Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the basketball fans have noticed, and the reason they cheer now instead of wisecrack, is that the varsity five is playing as a varsity five, not as five basketball players on a court. Wilson has employed a pressing zone defense which makes his team run up and down the court, never giving the opponents time to set up any sort of consistent attack. This zone threw Princeton completely into confusion two weeks ago, and the Tigers, usually very cool in a crisis, were totally ineffective...
...areas can lose his job." In one county, he found, a $4,500-a-year sheriff was offered $18,000 for protection. In another he discovered bootleg liquor stores that guarantee payment of customers' fines if they are arrested with their purchases within a three-mile "safety zone." Said Mathis: "Gangsterism is a fact...
After this worked so successfully, Wilson decided he still needed something more if the team were to cope with Princeton's superior height. Following a scouting trip to see the Tigers play Brown, he devised a pressing zone defense, which allowed the Crimson to keep its tall men under the boards, and forced Princeton to handle the ball outside instead of working it into the keyhole...
From the opening tap the Crimson applied a persistent defense, pressing the visitors until they crossed the center line, and then shifting to a sliding zone whch never let Princeton go through the middle...
Background: Born in Magdeburg (now in the East zone) March 27, 1901, son of an old-line Socialist bricklayer...