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...Yale took a 35 to 27 lead, the team took exactly five shots at the basket. Every time the Varsity moved down the floor, it found a new way to lose the ball. Blind passes, stolen balls, and what passed for Eli aggressiveness all took their toll. Underneath the backboard the Crimson was helpless...
...entirely different Crimson team, although the names and numbers were the same, which came back in the second 20 minutes. Fighting for every loose ball, controlling backboard play, partly because of the absence of tall Jack Colberg, who left early on personals, and finding their shooting eye, the Brownmen rallied in startlingly quick fashion...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...
...Tigers, though they knew they were beaten five minutes before the finish, hustled desperately to get possession of the ball. But Brown's boys, scenting that the Tigers were on the ropes, played their offensive game to the last, with control of the backboard obviating the necessity for stalling tactics...
...Dundas, but once Burditt's fouldrawing antics began to take their toll, and three Wesleyan cagers were ousted via the personal foul route, it was no contest. The departing Feslermen, Littell, Bur Mann, and "Moose" Allison, were gents of stature, and their loss proved costly to Wesleyan under the backboard...