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Old Mon Jan 17, 2005, 10:08am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Nope, we had big problems before we had actual backboards though. We had to poke the ball back up after every basket. We had 10 seconds to poke and then another 5 seconds for the throw-in.


I may have to e-mail DeNucci on this one. Next time he's up in his attic, I want him to get out the 1915 rulebooks!
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