hacker

[Garson O'Toole]

Below is another example of "hacked" in the basketball domain in 1933.
This cite is certainly not the earliest example, but the text is fully
visible and the newspaper has a solid date.

Cite: 1933 March 20, Schenectady Gazette, "Mont Pleasant Again
Captures Sectional Basketball Title : Locals Score Victory Over
Amsterdam Hi", Page 12, Column 1, Schenectady, New York. (Google News
full view)

DeNubilo on the next play passed to Stanton, who registered with a
beautiful left-handed shot. Cramer made his two free throws good after
begin hacked by Varsoke.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22good+after+being+hacked%22&

Garson

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 7/29/2010 12:11 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>  Six of one, half a dozen of the other. I cannot answer that question
>>definitively, of course, but I would like to note that only a couple of
>>nicknames have "basket-brawl" implications. Some of the rest are
>>variations on the names (Prouncer, Rocky Stocky), but the rest have
>>neither connection.
>
> I think more of the nicknames may have a basketball or sports
> connection, taking off sometimes from the player's name, although of
> course I cannot prove my suppositions:
>      Easy Uno = easy one; a foul shot is one point.
>      Iron Man = someone with endurance.
>      Rocky Stocky
>      Waban Wrecker
>      Bonus Baby = extra point for foul shot after being fouled in
> act of shooting but making the shot (and there are probably many
> other possibilities).
>      Killer = kills his shot (analagous to volleyball), and other
> possibilities.
>      Prouncer = pouncer, aggressive on defense.
>      The Stilt = ... well, see "Wilt the Stilt".
>
>>For my part, I doubt that this use of the verb
>>"hack" has been around before the 1970s, but there is nothing scientific
>>about this claim.
>
> A very quick look:
>
> Howard Liss, _Basketball Talk for Beginners_, 1970 (GB snippet,
> unverified; dated [1970] by WorldCat).
> "HACK To chop down on a player's wrists or forearms as he attempts to
> shoot for the basket. If the shooter scores, ... not score because of
> the hack, then he is awarded two shots from the free-throw line."
>
> Unfortunately, this is not held by Harvard; the closest to me is in
> Montpelier (CUNY has it, however -- hint, hint).
>
> Joel
>
>
>
>>>At 7/28/2010 07:56 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>>>The Tech, vol. 78:9. March 11, 1958
>>>>Basket-Brawl Game Planned For Faculty Early This Spring. p. 6/1
>>>>>Last year's game, won by the Science-Administration five, featured
>>>>>such Tech notables as "Easy Uno" Ingard, Dean "White Bucks" Speer,
>>>>>Nicholas "Iron Man" Grant, Dean William "Hacker" Holden, "Rocky
>>>>>Stocky" Stockmayer, Mal "Waban Wrecker" Kispert, Joseph "Bonus Baby"
>>>>>Synder, Charles "Killer" Miller, Rog "Prouncer" Prouty, and John "The
>>>>>Stilt" Murphy. The officials included President Killian, Deans Rule
>>>>>and Fassett, Dr. Stratton and Dean Thresher.
>>>Joel
>>>
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