Word: backcourt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penn team has a lot of flaws, as their televised loss to Princeton last Saturday indicated. In the first place, their big men are a bunch of bums: they can't shoot and they can't rebound too well either. And Penn has absolutely no backcourt depth to give Neuman or Pawlak a rest...
...winning strategy for the Crimson could be to use a full-court press constantly. This may seem an absurd suggestion, since Neuman is easily the best ball handler in the backcourt with Gene Dressler, George Neville, Bob Beller, and Jeff Grate. With this depth, Harvard can afford to press and probably wear down Neuman and Pawlak. Besides, if Penn is able to get the ball downcourt Tom Mallison (6-10). Frank Burgess (6-9), and John Hellings (6-8) can murder Harvard under the boards...
Sophomore Jeff Grate will replace George Neville in the backcourt, and 6-6 junior Lynn Bennion will start in place of John Scott at forward. The change isn't the result of any panic button pushing by Coach Floyd Wilson; both Grate and Bennion convincingly earned first-string berths last weekend...
...Newmark isn't a one-man team. Guard Stan Felsinger is a fine ball handler and shooter; he's averaging 22.6. In the backcourt with Felsinger in Ken Benoit, the prototype of the scrappy little guard. Benoit is not normally a high scorer, but his 22 point performance gave Columbia a 69-68 win over Cornell last month...
With ten seconds to play, the score was tied at 85-all, and Harvard had the ball out of bounds at midcourt. Gene Dressler threw a looping pass into the backcourt over the head of guard Bob Seller -- who fell down. The Jumbos' Pete Scully picked up the loose ball, drew a foul, and rank two free throws to give Tufts the victory...