Editing Slam dunk (section)

===Lew Alcindor rule===
Dunking was banned in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] and high school sports from 1967 to 1976.<ref>
[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121082366/march-28-1967-the-day-the-dunk-shot/ "Dunk Shot Is Ruled Out of the Game"], ''Indianapolis Star'', March 29, 1967, p. 29</ref><ref name="tdicbk">{{cite news |date=1 April 1976 |title=The dunk is coming back |page=1C |work=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |location=(Oregon) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jScRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6173%2C148880}}</ref><ref name="lvdnrml">{{cite news |last=Doney |first=Ken |date=1 April 1976 |title='They'll love dunk' - Miller |page=2B |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |agency=Associated Press |location=(Idaho) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FalfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3140%2C199232}}</ref> Many people have attributed the ban to the dominance of the college phenomenon Lew Alcindor (now known as [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]]);<ref name="sldmwi">{{cite news |date=2 April 1976 |title=Slam dunk: most welcome it |page=2B |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |agency=Associated Press |location=(Idaho) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FqlfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3306%2C652808}}</ref> the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor rule."<ref>time.com, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060819171816/http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,836963,00.html Lew's Still Loose]. Retrieved 15 April 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Caponi |first=Gena |title=Signifyin(G), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking |publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Press]] |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-55849-183-0 |location=Amherst |page=4}}</ref> Others have attributed the ban to racial motivations, as at the time most of the prominent dunkers in college basketball were African-American, and the ban took place less than a year after the [[1966 NCAA University Division basketball championship game]], wherein a [[1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team|Texas Western team with an all-black starting lineup]] beat [[1965–66 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team|an all-white Kentucky team]] to win the national championship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=When college basketball outlawed the dunk |date=23 March 2014 |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/20140323_Giving__Em_Fitz__When_college_basketball_outlawed_the_dunk.html}}</ref> Under head coach [[Guy Lewis]], [[Houston Cougars men's basketball|Houston]] (with [[Elvin Hayes]]) made considerable use of the {{nowrap|"stuff" shot}} on their way to the Final Four {{nowrap|in [[1967 NCAA University Division basketball tournament|1967]].<ref name=hccad>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3qdVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6945%2C4757654 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=Houston cage coach advocates stuff shot |date=24 March 1967 |page=3B}}</ref>}}