Word: backcourts
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Walker is a backcourt player, who wins his points with a sharp forehand and strong passing shots, but he has the strength to come to net behind his shots. His all-around game will be counted on to stop Princeton's hard-hitting Speed Howell in the number six match Saturday...
...Sullivan chased Aasnaes' powerful volleys all around the backcourt, frustrating the tall Norwegian with a brilliant retrieving game. Time after time the Crimson's captain fired forehand passing shots past Aasnaes, the third-ranked player in last year's New England Intercollegiate Tournament...
Barry Williams, a 6 ft., 5 in. postman, and backcourt aces Keith Sediesek and Bill Fegley were the big guns for the ball club. Williams, especially, should bolster the varsity next year. However, with Merle McClung and Bob Inman returning to the post spots, he may have trouble moving into the starting line...
...fast-moving play, and Auerbach has what basketball men call the ''feel" of the game. He seems to know instinctively when a player starts to go sour, has a rare sixth sense for getting just the right man-into the pivot, the corner, the backcourt-at precisely the right moment. And because he does, he has survived in a harsh profession that has seen some 60 N.B.A. coaches come and go in the past 17 years...
...word must be said about Princeton and the much heralded Bill Bradley. The Tigers have last two of five games, mainly because with the exception of Bradley and backcourt man Art Hyland, they are pitiful. But Bradley, the sophomore from St. Louis who had his picture in Sports Illustrated (and we all know how great that is) has not disappointed say of the pundits who predicted he would be the greatest Ivy player since Rudy Laruase exchanged his Dartmouth uniform for one reading "Lakers...