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...more than a one-man show this year. The Bradley mystique lured a number of high school basketball stars to Nassau two years ago, and the Tigers are benefiting this year from the presence of such sophomores as 6-9 Robbie Brown, 6-6 Ed Hummer, and hotshot backcourt man Gary Walters...
...game. Center Jack Lockhart, who stands 6-7, is averaging 13.8 points and 10 rebounds a game. The guards are 6-1 Bill Engster and 6-3 Lyndon Waugh. Not many teams in the League can afford the luxury of having a 6-3 man play in the backcourt...
...down the middle of the court with one player on his left and one on his right. As they passed midcourt, the two men on the outside converged toward Austin, and began to work legerdemain with their passing. Even if two or three Crimson players had scrambled into the backcourt to defend, the only way of stopping the blits was to commit a foul or pray that a B.C. player would blow his shot...
...this tactic is physically and mentally exhausting. Yet Harvard, with so little depth, was unable to substitute much at all. Until the last two minutes of the game, coach Floyd Wilson used only six men--the starting five plus Fegley, who entered the game occasionally to relieve the backcourt...
Frank Ripley, Harvard's number one man, will be closing out a three-year varsity career today and should be able to overpower Lynch's retrieving game, Dave Benjamin, one of the best backcourt players in the Eastern League, should have too much for Farry. Clive Kileff, on a hot streak, took over the number three position last week, defeated his Navy opponent 6-0, 6-0 Saturday, and ought to win handily...