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...great extent, the Crimson's success will depend on its ability to block out Fulcomer and Belz under the offensive backboard. On defense the Tigers play a man-to-man, which means that Fulcomer will probably cover Bryant Danner, whose rebounding has been spotty this season...
Perhaps the most heartening win for the Crimson came early in the match, when Cortesi won his sixth singles match from Yale's Bob McCoy in four hard-fought games, 17-16, 15-17, 15-11, and 18-15. McCoy, characterized by one of his teammates as "a human backboard," was one of Yale's so-called sure wins, since he had been undefeated at his position up until the Harvard match, and Cortesi's win over him, gave the team a strong push towards victory...
Princeton did not play much sparkling basketball, but there was no need to. The Crimson made only 19 of 74 field goal attempts, and took a good many of these when no one was covering the backboard. Princeton scored on an adequate 36 percent--22 for 62--of its floor tries, and had a knack of coming through with an important basket when the losers showed signs of life...
...varsity, while missing over 75 per cent of its shots, half the time could not even hit the basket rim, and several times completely missed the backboard...
Bill was no ace on offense, but he was good enough. His teammates would purposely fire flat, fast shots that should have bounced off the backboard for sure misses, then Bill would move over, stick his big paw up like a second backboard, and tap the rebound in. The technique was so exasperating that rival coaches wrote a new "Russell rule" into the game-they widened the free-throw lane to 12 ft. so that Bill would have to stay farther out of basket-hanging range...