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	Hank Luisetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Angelo "Hank" Luisetti (June 16, 1916 in San Francisco, California - December 17, 2002 in San Mateo, California) was a college men's basketball player and one of the great innovators to the game.
		Equipped with such an offensive weapon, Luisetti became one of the most dominant players in college basketball history.
		Luisetti was a member of the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Luisetti (137 words)

	HANK LUISETTI / 1916-2002 / Luisetti shot got game off ground / Stanford basketball legend dead at age 86
		Luisetti, who was playing for Stanford in 1936 when he changed the sport in a historic appearance at New York's Madison Square Garden, died Tuesday in San Mateo.
		Luisetti often said that being in the right place at the right time was the key to his fame.
		Luisetti was preceded in death by his wife Jane, and is survived by his partner Nancy Gommeringer, his son Steven of Sacramento, his daughter Nancy of St.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/21/SP111332.DTL&type=printable (1003 words)

	[Deathwatch] Hank Luisetti, athlete, 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Luisetti was an All-America selection at Stanford from 1936-1938 and was selected the Helms Athletic Foundation Player of the Year in 1937 and 1938.
		Luisetti and I would go down the court and meet the two guards who were bringing the ball up the court," Zonne said.
		Luisetti is survived by Gommeringer, his son Steven of Sacramento, his daughter Nancy of St. Louis, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-December/000338.html (520 words)

	Stanford Magazine > March/April 2003 > Examined Life
		The son of Italian immigrants, Angelo Enrico Luisetti was born on June 16, 1916, in San Francisco.
		Luisetti’s total of 1,596 points in four years was a national record at the time, and he fouled out of only one game (when four fouls—not five—was the maximum).
		Luisetti’s name recognition and achievements attracted top players to the Farm, and in the four years after his departure Stanford won 75 percent of its games, culminating with the 1942 NCAA championship.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2003/marapr/departments/examinedlife.html (976 words)

	Hank Jones - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hank Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Born in 1918 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Hank Jones grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, where he studied piano at an early age and came under the influence of Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, and Art Tatum.
		By the age of 13 Jones was performing locally in Michigan and Ohio.
		In the early 1980s Jones held a residency as a solo pianist at the Cafe Ziegfeld and made a tour of Japan, where he performed and recorded with George Duvivier and Sonny Stitt.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hank-Jones.html (457 words)

	The New York Times: This Day In Sports
		It was the sixth victory in a row for Stanford this season and was in the nature of a personal triumph for Hank Luisetti, who has been hailed as one of the best players ever to perform in the East.
		By the 1950ís virtually all players were shooting an elevated jumperóand they owed it all to Hank Luisetti, the man on the move.
		Hank Luisetti posing on a court with Stanford, circa 1938.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/12.30.html (745 words)

	Hank Blalock - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hank Blalock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hank Blalock - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hank Blalock.
		Hank Joe Blalock (born November 21, 1980) is a Major League baseball third baseman who currently plays for the Texas Rangers.
		Blalock was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 3rd round of the 1999 amateur draft and began playing for the team in 2002.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hank-Blalock.html (212 words)

	Hank Luisetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hank Luisetti learned the game playing on an asphalt slab a few blocks from his home in California.
		Luisetti's one-handed shot and fancy dribbling was to lead the way to a new era of basketball.
		Luisetti, who once scored 50 points in a game, graduated from Stanford in 1938 and went on to play in the AAU.
	www.basketballattic.addr.com /luisetti.htm (394 words)

	Basketball Great Hank Luisetti Dies at 86
		Luisetti had been ill with an unknown ailment for four months, she said Saturday.
		Luisetti finished with 15 points, a substantial individual performance in an era when teams rarely topped 45 points a contest.
		Luisetti later became the first college player to score 50 points in a game when Stanford beat Duquesne 92-27 on New Year's Day in 1938.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/810640/posts (588 words)

	Hank
		Originally, Hank was short for the name Hankin, which was the Middle English name Han (short for Jehan, the Norman French form of John) plus the Norman diminutive suffix “kin.” Hank was thus a diminutive for John.
		One theory for this is that Hank, as a nickname for Henry, was adapted from the names Heinrich, Henrick (German forms of Henry), Hendrik, or Henrick (Dutch forms of Henry), that were brought to the American colonies by German immigrants of the mid-18th century or Dutch immigrants of the 17th century.
		Hank flourished as a nickname in the new United States (it died out in Britain), but was rarely given as a real first name.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/h/hank.html (215 words)

	SportingNews.com - College Basketball : Hoops pioneer Hank Luisetti dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Luisetti died Tuesday in San Mateo, Calif., his companion Nancy Gommeringer said.
		Luisetti, who was 6-3, changed the sport when he introduced his one-handed shot at New York's Madison Square Garden during a Dec. 30, 1936 game against Long Island University.
		Luisetti was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959 and was selected for the inaugural Pac-10 Hall of Honor in March 2001.
	archive.sportingnews.com /cbasketball/articles/20021221/446700-p.html (431 words)

	Hank Luisetti -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Angelo Enrico Luisetti was born on June 16, 1916, in San Francisco.
		Luisetti popularized his new style of shooting while starring on the basketball team at Stanford University in 1935–38.
		A hank of cotton or of the spun silk made from short lengths of waste silk is 840 yards (770 m) long.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9315618 (658 words)

	The Enterprise Newspapers - Forum by Evan Smith
		When Hank Luisetti died in mid-December at age 86, basketball lost perhaps its greatest pioneer.
		Luisetti was to the game in the 1930s what George Mikan was to the 1940s and what Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan were to later decades.
		Stanford's 45-31 victory ended Long Island's 43-game winning streak, and Luisetti, who finished with 15 points, brought the beginning of the end for the style that had been defined by the traditional two-handed set shot, although Long Island coach Clair Bee remained convinced that players should be taught to shoot with two hands.
	www.enterprisenewspapers.com /archive/2003/1/17/200311618215053.cfm (688 words)

	The Game Changer : How Hank Luisetti Revolutionized America's Great Indoor Game
		“Hank, the nimble; Hank, the quick; Hank, the human corkscrew; Hank, as fast as light; Hank, the rubber-boned man,” wrote Roy Cummings after seeing a 19-year-old Hank Luisetti perform for the first time in 1936.
		The Game Changer is a book that rediscovers the long-forgotten adulation basketball fans felt for Luisetti by tracing his journey from boyhood on to becoming basketball’s first matinee idol and the man who changed basketball forever.
		A composed Luisetti walked to his position within earshot of play-by-play announcer Doug Montel and thought briefly of his mother listening at home.
	www.authorhouse.co.uk /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~23261.aspx (643 words)

	Cardinal Chronicle: 4/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Luisetti had needed only one arm to revolutionize basketball, anyway.
		Luisetti's team won conference titles 1936-38; there was no national championship series.
		The icon himself, Hank Luisetti, lives in Foster City, where he watches Cardinal games on television.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/2001/april4/column-44.html (482 words)

	The Sporting News: History of the NCAA College Basketball Tourney
		Of all the players and teams for whom the NCAA Tournament was realized too late, none had greater cause for disappointment than Hank Luisetti and Stanford.
		It was Luisetti, a Stanford All-American, who revolutionized the game in December 1936 when he introduced his running one-handed shot to the East Coast in a game against Long Island University at Madison Square Garden.
		Luisetti led Stanford to three consecutive Pacific Coast Conference championships and to a 46-5 record in his final two seasons.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/ncaa/1942.html (1298 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		And at this moment when the Cardinal is a college basketball powerhouse anew, Hank Luisetti, a great blast from the past, is of note again because Stanford people recently repaired the vandalized statue of Luisetti that stands outside Stanford's Maples Gym.
		Luisetti, 84, is the greatest living athletic immortal of the 1930s.
		Luisetti was a 6 foot 2 ½ inch forward.
	www.thecolumnists.com /isaacs/isaacs20.html (1098 words)

	Skimmings \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Statistically, Luisetti didn't have a big night in the historic New York City win in 1936.
		Luisetti, who died in 2002 at age 86, was ahead of his time as a basketball player - way ahead.
		That Jan. 1, Luisetti scored 50 points - then a national record - against Duquesne, and his 1,596 career points at Stanford also were a national mark at the time.
	www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/relatedarticles/79918.php (768 words)

	Angelo "Hank" Luisetti Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In an era that featured the traditional "two-handed" set shot, Angelo "Hank" Luisetti developed an offensive repertoire that few players had ever seen before: the running one-handed shot.
		In three spectacular years at Stanford, Luisetti was named the 1937 and 1938 Helms Athletic Foundation Player of the Year.
		Upon leaving the floor, Luisetti received a standing ovation from the LIU crowd.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Luisetti.htm (523 words)

	ESPN Classic - Stanford great credited with revolutionizing sport
		Hank Luisetti once scored 50 points in a game, which is still a Stanford record.
		His father, who had played against Luisetti in college, told Montgomery that Luisetti was the ''greatest player ever to play the game.''
		Luisetti was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959 and was selected for the inaugural Pacific-10 Hall of Honor in March 2001.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2002/1221/1480886.html (496 words)

	Daily Review Online - Forgotten Times
		Luisetti, credited with developing the one-handed shot, is regarded as the first modern player.
		When Luisetti enlisted in the Navy and Pollard in the Coast Guard, the opportunity arrived for the two to meet.
		But Luisetti was a superb passer and ballhandler, a player with such an overall grasp of the game that Newell believes he still be a standout today.
	www.dailyreviewonline.com /Stories/0,1413,88~28139~1908250,00.html (1066 words)

	Sermon Illustrations
		Perhaps you may remember Hank Luisetti, the great basketball player of a few decades back.
		When Hank came along, virtually every basketball coach in the country insisted that his players shoot with two hands.
		The rest is basketball history--today almost everybody uses Hank's one-handed jump shot.
	www.sermonillustrations.com /a-z/i/innovation.htm (472 words)

	Hank Williams -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		With the help of Fred Rose, his "Lovesick Blues" became a smash hit in 1949, and he joined the Grand Ole Opry that year after an extraordinary debut appearance.
		His son, Hank Williams, Jr., has had an exceptional recording career, and grandson Hank Williams III is also a musician.
		More results on "Hank Williams" when you join.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9382745 (716 words)

	Argus Online - Forgotten Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		So Luisetti spent time working on his bank shot, an attempt to diminish Pollard's defensive presence.
		Newell recalls Luisetti simply frustrating Pollard with an array of uncommon moves and shots.
		Luisetti, who died last year, finished with 20 points and led Pre-Flight to a 45-36 victory.
	www.theargusonline.com /Stories/0,1413,83~28140~1908250,00.html (1066 words)

	THE GALILEO OBSERVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Long before Michael Jordan, Hank Luisetti was considered the greatest basketball player who ever lived.
		When Hank went to Stanford he developed the one-handed set shot and was an All-American at three positions.
		The legacy of Hank Luisetti is one of its hallmarks.
	www.galileoalumni.org /news200305.html (1518 words)

	AFSPC Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hank Luisetti played for Johnny Bunn at Stanford and he developed a one-handed jump shot.
		As a sophomore, Hank was nominated as an All-American…Stanford won the Pacific Coast championship…and Hank averaged 17 points a game – pretty good for the 1930s!
		Few young players today have ever heard of Hank Luisetti – but every one of them uses the shot that seemed strange when he perfected it.
	www.peterson.af.mil /HQAFSPC/Library/speeches/Speeches.asp?YearList=2002&SpeechChoice=26 (2443 words)

	AFSPC Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There were plenty of doubters, but it was working pretty well and his coach let him keep shooting it.
		As a sophomore, Hank was nominated as an All-American, Stanford won the Pacific Coast championship, and Hank averaged 17 points a game.
		Few young players today have ever heard of Hank Luisetti, but every one of them uses the shot that seemed strange when he perfected it.
	www.peterson.af.mil /hqafspc/Library/speeches/Speeches.asp?YearList=2002&SpeechChoice=30 (2720 words)

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		With the experienced seniors leading the way, Torgoff and his sophomore classmates (John Bromberg, Danny Kaplowitz) helped extend their winning streak to 44 games, a stretch dating back to the 1934-35 season, when Stanford and the great Hank Luisetti arrived in New York to play LIU at Madison Square Garden.
		Many Eastern coaches and fans refused to accept that Luisetti's one-handed shot was anything more than a fad (players in the East used the two-handed set shot).
		But when he unleashed his offensive repertoire against the Blackbirds, Luisetti and Stanford proved their superiority as they won, 45-31.
	www.jewsinsports.org /profile.asp?sport=basketball&ID=133 (1038 words)

	ESPN Classic - Davies dribbles his way into history
		"He was," wrote Daley, "the closet approach to Hank Luisetti ever to show in the Garden and in some few times of court deportment was a trifle better than the peerless Stanford wonder.
		Davies was positive Luisetti dribbled behind-his-back in the film, but insisted he brought the behind-the-back to college competition in the 1941 NIT test with Rhode Island.
		However, there are some indications he might have tested the ploy a few times in games on his home court at Seton Hall in South Orange, N.J., but New York was so provincial in 1941 that South Orange might as well have been in Utah.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/goldstein_behind_the_back.html (1403 words)

	Chris Hernandez Wins Hank Luisetti MVP Award :: Nick Robinson wins Howie Dallmar Coaches Award for third time
		Chris Hernandez is the 2005 winner of the Hank Luisetti MVP Award.
		Stanford, Ca - Chris Hernandez, who was honored by the Pacific-10 Conference for his success on-and-off the court during the 2004-05 season, was named the team's winner of the Hank Luisetti Most Valuable Player, announced at the team's banquet Wednesday night.
		Stanford ended the 2004-05 season with an 18-13 record, an 11-7 mark in the Pac-10 (third place) and a school record eleventh straight trip to the NCAA Tournament.
	gostanford.collegesports.com /sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040605aac.html (724 words)

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