This was taken during a game in the original fieldhouse–we have very, very few of these pictures and I don’t have any good way to date it.
I feel uneasy just looking at this contraption. I guess the dunk hadn’t been invented yet.
This was taken during a game in the original fieldhouse–we have very, very few of these pictures and I don’t have any good way to date it.
I feel uneasy just looking at this contraption. I guess the dunk hadn’t been invented yet.
Wooden Infrastructure and mattress padding:
Before my time: 1952 —>
BTW, you are correct, the dunk was NOT done by the time I was in school (1952-56).
And Bill Russell played against Rice while I was “considering a function”. He could surely have dunked.
I have heard one of the older college-later pro players say they could have done it but it was considered inappropriate.
After my time at Rice, some college players began dunking, and I think it was banned by the rules for some years, but later made legal.
Rice played the University of San Francisco only twice, both times in 1981, long after Bill Russell had played for them (1954-56). (Source: Rice Basketball Fact Book, pp. 146 & 177: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/rice/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2011-12/misc_non_event/2012RiceBasketballFactBook.pdf )
Mike,
My mind’s eye holds the picture of Bill Russell trapping a ball against the backboard in a game I witnessed at “Autry Court”.
You must be correct, yet … somehow …
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Having analyzed my mind’s eye, I now think I remember King Hill of Rice Institute trapping a basketball high against the right side of the backboard at Autry Court. I think I previously had seen that done by Bill Rusell, perhaps on TV but possibly in a newsreel.
My id, ego, and superego probably morphed those 2 images together.
(I would NOT have had such problems if I could have gotten a date at Rice I.)
Dunking was banned from NCAA college basketball games from 1967-76.
Well, I got something right.
Do I get anything for that? A free parking spot for the baseball games perhaps?
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