Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, working from his usual post under the backboard, picked up 20 points to trail Rock well in scoring. Gerry Murphy, Jim Gable, and Bill Hickey started on the back line. Murphy's push shot from outside was effective against the concentrated Navy defense...
Nice under-the-backboard work by Ed Smith and John Rockwell was the strong point of the Tufts game, but the varsity often lacked the speed necessary to play Shepard-brand fast-break ball. Its shooting from the outside was also weak. Shepard has accordingly pushed fast Jim Gabler up to the guard spot in the starting lineup. Under Shepard's system there will be three guards and two centers...
Harvard's performance in the first half was sloppy. With Walt McCurdy sitting out the entire half, the team hit only twice from the floor. Three times, frantic set shots missed the backboard...
Although Barclay refuses to speculate on how many games the Crimson will win this winter, he feels that the team is physically equipped to handle most situations. When he wants height and backboard coverage, Barclay can use Prior, Smith and Rockwell. For speed, he has Gabler, McCurdy, Gannon and Crosby...
...final 20 minutes, the Nassau scored almost at will, moving through the Varsity's man to man defense without effort, and cleaning every rebound from the Crimson backboard. George Sella, who had a scintillating first half, tallied twenty one points for the victors, and center Bernie Adams was king of the backboards. If Coach Fank Cappon hadn't removed his regulars in the final six minutes, the rout could have reached gruesome proportions...