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Thursday, August 28, 1966 / University Daily Kansan
NBA stars put pressure on Kansas goal makers
United Press International
DORRANCE — When Akeem Olajuwon and Julius Irving barrel down the court to execute their slam-dunk shots, they rely on a company in tiny Dorrance to ensure the goal can stand up to their enormous strength.
Toss Back Inc. designs and manufactures the snap-back basketball goals and safety backboards used exclusively by the National Basketball Association since 1981. The backboards, were granted legal status in college and high school ranks in March.
Thanks to a steel spring that allows the goal to bend under the weight of a 7-foot basketball player and an apparatus that braces the goal to the backboard frame instead of the glass, the two innovations have helped make it possible to keep the slam-dunk a part of professional and college basketball.
Toss Back president Kenneth Mahoney, a former Kansas State basketball star, founded the company with his brother in their hometown of Dorrance in the early 1960s, first carving a niche in the sports world by designing a netted device to toss back practice balls to players.
Today, the toss back almost is a standard piece of equipment in basketball gyms across the country. Mahoney said.
Since he founded Toss Back, Mahoney has had a dual purpose: to create sporting equipment that would help players develop their
skills and to make the game of basketball a safer enterprise.
The company recently won a $380,000 grant from the state to double its work force to about 40 people and to expand production to make it more competitive in the sports world.
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Toss Back also is making ball-return devices for volleyball, baseball, soccer and other round-ball sports, and plans to continue expanding its horizons. Mahoney said. He expects sales next year to elceil the $1 million mark.
Mahoney credits part of Toss Back's success to the handcraftsmanship each piece receives at the production shop, which once housed the main truck stop between Kansas City and Denver.
The company is able to keep its prices competitive by cutting out middle men - sales representatives, retail points, distributors. Mahoney and his staff do it all, including showing coaches and players how to use the equipment properly and installing goals and backboards.
But Toss Back's real success so far has been in Mahoney's ability to recognize and then correct the shortcomings of basketball equipment.
In 1984, after Julius Irving hit his head on the bottom of the backboard during the Gatorade Slam-Dunk Championship. Toss Back redesigned and perfected its backboard by cutting six inches from the bottom. The NBA tested the new backboards and ordered them installed in every NBA arena in the country.
Enrollment at the University of Kansas is at a record high, but fewer students are attending Kansas State and Wichita State universities, college officials said yesterday.
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Enrollment at KU has reached all-time high
records said yesterday. The figures were based on head counts as of Monday, the first day of fall semester classes, and will change when final enrollment figures are compiled on the 20th day of classes in September. Final figures for each Board of Regents are used in determining the amount of money each school will receive from the state.
At Kansas, fall semester classes opened with a record enrollment of 25,599, according to the University's department of educational services.
The first-day figure at Lawrence and off-campus facilities — the Regents Center in Overland Park and the Capital Complex Center in Topeka — was 23,256, compared with 22,428 last year. On the Lawrence campus alone, 21,841 students were enrolled.
circulate. The head count at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., was 2,343, an increase of 111 from last year.
last year At Kansas State in Manhattan, the first-day
figure was 14,316, a drop of 68 students from last year, said Cy Wainscott, director of university relations at Kansas State.
The biggest decline, Wainscott said, was in the college of agriculture, which suffered a 9.7 percent drop to 1,370 students. The largest increase, he said, was in the college of education, up 9.1 percent to 1,000 students.
At Wichita State, enrollment stood at 15.099 when classes began Monday, down 299 from last year, said Rob Merritt, media relations coordinator.
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Player loses claim in bingo decision
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A one-legged bingo player who couldn't hobble to the podium fast enough to claim her prize is not entitled to the money, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
A Florence County jury had ordered the James F. Byrnes Academy Inc., sponsor of the bingo game, to pay Delores Taylor $3,000 and other damages for not awarding her the game prize.
But the appeals court overturned the decision, ruling that under contract law, the academy was obligated only to award the prize to the first winner to claim it.
Taylor testified that she "began hollering 'Bingo'" as soon as I-22, her winning number, was called. But she said that the caller didn't hear her and that she hobbled to an usher to try and stop another number from being called.
Taylor failed, and three other winners claimed the prize on the next number.
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