Tue Jan 01, 2013, 11:48am
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I miss being on the floor
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Hartford, WI
Posts: 917
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Originally Posted by Forksref
We used fan-shaped glass almost everywhere in ND in the 70's and 80's. I think it was a cost factor. Abd, remember, the ball can legally pass over the fan-shaped boards.
If I remember right, the movie "Hoosiers", set in the early 1950's, showed rectangular glass backboards but I think they were not authentic for the time because they did not have the wood at the bottom which supported the rim. I am guessing that the glass back then would not handle the stress of dunking. Also, was that the current Butler Field House in the finals of Hoosiers?
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Yes, Hinkel Fieldhouse was the setting for the championship game.
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