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Old Thu Jan 08, 2009, 04:17pm
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It used to be use for 6-on-6 basketball where certain players could not cross over the division line. I'm too young to have ever seen this played though

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It used to be use for 6-on-6 basketball where certain players could not cross over the division line. I'm too young to have ever seen this played though

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I didn't know you were that young, Josh. Anyone over the age of 22 is old enough to remember seeing this played, as the last 6 on 6 tourney in Iowa was in 1993 (at the old Veterans Memorial Auditorium.) By that time, it was only small schools who were playing by those rules.
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It used to be use for 6-on-6 basketball where certain players could not cross over the division line. I'm too young to have ever seen this played though.

Correct. That was the original purpose.
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Don't hear the term "rover" much anymore, do we? (Iowa folks might be the only ones who remember that).
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Don't hear the term "rover" much anymore, do we? (Iowa folks might be the only ones who remember that).
I grew up watching this sport, but don't remember the term. Care to enlighten me?
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I grew up watching this sport, but don't remember the term. Care to enlighten me?
6-on-6 -> 2 defenders, 2 forwards, 2 rovers. = 4-on-4 each side.
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6-on-6 -> 2 defenders, 2 forwards, 2 rovers. = 4-on-4 each side.
Not how they played when I was in school.

3 on 3 on each side. No rovers. 3 forwards, 3 guards, none of which could cross the division line.
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Not how they played when I was in school.

3 on 3 on each side. No rovers. 3 forwards, 3 guards, none of which could cross the division line.
I've been wrong before.
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Not how they played when I was in school.

3 on 3 on each side. No rovers. 3 forwards, 3 guards, none of which could cross the division line.
Mick's version was played in VT till about 1970 or so.
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Don't hear the term "rover" much anymore, do we? (Iowa folks might be the only ones who remember that).

I dare Freddy over . . .
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It used to be use for 6-on-6 basketball where certain players could not cross over the division line. I'm too young to have ever seen this played though

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I played it.

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I played it.

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Where?
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