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Old Thu Nov 24, 2022, 11:12am
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Soul Sacrifice (Santana, 1969) ...

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Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB View Post
I wonder if the rule was more of a holdover from the days when the baskets were mounted directly to walls.
Make a layup and smash into a wall? Gotta hurt.

In my local town we had (half) glass backboards back in the fifties. First high school in the state to have such.

A teacher colleague of mine, who played in that gym (still used for town sponsored games, still with the (half) glass backboards) told me that curious visiting fans would stand under the backboards and stare at them for several minutes.
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