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Junior Al Kammerien is even edging out Campbell for the team scoring lead, and ranks third in the Ivy League. Sophomore whis Art Hyland teams with Campbell in the backcourt, and ranks 11th with his 14.7 point per game average. The fourth member of the Tigers' devastating quartet is captain Don Swan, a strong 6 ft., 3 in. forward...
...teams headed down the stretch, N.B.A. statistics reflected Rookie Robertson's all-round excellence. His 30.1 game average placed him third among the league's scorers, a fact made all the more remarkable because, as Boston's Bill Sharman explains, "I've been the leading backcourt scorer in the league over the last nine years, and the best average I ever got was 22.3 points in 1958. Last year Detroit's Gene Shue beat that with a 22.8 average. Now along comes Robertson as a rookie averaging more than 30." Hitting...
...backcourt, Deering hit 14 of 19 shots from the floor against the Lions and Big Red, and brought his season percentage to 52 per cent. Captain Bowditch is just behind him at 48 per cent, with many of his baskets coming off the Crimson's revitalized fast break...
...rest of the starting team is sophomore Brick Brikmanis, 6 ft., 7 in. center, the team's leading rebounder, and junior Marty Erdheim and sophomore Bill Martin. Martin and Erdheim man the backcourt positions...
Sweeping down court on the attack, the University of Utah's heron-legged Bill ("The Hill") McGill is one of the basketball phenomena of the year-a 6-ft. 9-in., 215-lb. giant who can nevertheless dribble with the slick speed of a sawed-off backcourt man and get off every shot in the book, ranging from arching hooks to driving layups. Last week McGill's average was up to 28.7 points a game, the fourth highest in the nation. Shrugged the University of Denver's Coach Hoyt Brawner after losing to Utah...