Word: basketing
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...second half the University men came back strong and held the 1924 men down to four baskets while they rolled fifteen points, every man on the team scoring at least one basket in this period...
...lack of uniformity in the rules that has prevented the sport from growing into a greater and more popular game than it is today. The one thing that is uniform in the game, and perhaps the only thing, is the scoring, it being universally observed that a basket from the floor shall count two points and a throw from the foul line...
Then again you have other conditions to meet. They bear upon the difference between the college games and professional in regard to baskets. All college games are played with wooden back boards behind the baskets, whereas one professional league would have glass backs located twelve inches behind the basket while in the college games wooden boards are only six inches behind the basket. Such differences should be eradicated in order to bring about a more uniform standard of play...
...from last year's University, Freshman and fraternity teams for the five positions on the 1920-21 Columbia basketball team, competition promises to be unusually keen this year. The new coach, Joseph H. Deering, took charge of the squad and put them through a light workout of passing and basket shooting...
...CRIMSON representative that it was his aim to build up a five-man team this year, every member of which quintet shall be in action every moment of the game. He will not try to build a team around any one star performer, rather is the man nearest the basket to shoot for the basket. "Basketball has developed into a passing game now, and team work is the first essential to be learned." For the first week or two, only the fundamentals of the game are to be practiced and no team will be picked until every...