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After three years of strictly winter-rules wartime turf-cutting, the golf train is once more feeing up on a formal basis, under the guidance of Coach Bill Barclay, who just completed the first phase of his first year at Harvard as basketball mentor...
After the traditional time lag, basketball's nation-wide growth the popularity are finally being reflected at Harvard. The latest in a series of moves designed to build New England's own game into the College's third-ranking major sport came last week with Coach Bill Barclay's announcement that basketball's first spring practice would begin shortly after the season's close. These sessions will be by invitation only, to compete as little as possible with the spring talent search conducted by Harlow and the spring sports. None the less, they were hailed by Barclay as a welcome...
Athletic director Bill Bingham, the man behind the drive for better basketball, scoured the country, and came up with William L. Barclay, assistant coach at the University of Michigan. Soft-spoken in manner, energetic, Iron-willed Barclay took effective command of the situation. Building around a nucleus of only two superior players, Barclay squeezed every possible ounce of talent out of his small squad and came up with a quintet that has been a credit to crimson colors, handing the championship Columbia five its only loss in Ivy League play, as well as downing Yale and complling...
...puts all but one Ivy League game, plus the army and two other contests, in the Boston Garden or Arena, to the relief of harassed fans who stormed the Blockhouse for some of this year's main attractions. In addition, practice in the spring and early fall will give Barclay the time he needs to shape his potential talent into a consistent, winning quintet...
Thus, in the most exciting if hardly the most brilliant performance of the year, Coach Bill Barclay's team closed its season with a 16-9 record, and tied Dartmouth for fourth place in the Ivy League with five wins and seven losses. It was a fitting climax for a well-coached team with not enough topflight personnel to be called exceptional...