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Harvard shooting was not too accurate--when the team managed to get off a shot. Wideman. and speedy Sid Amira consistently relieved the Crimson of the ball as it came down court, and moved it to the other end for an easy basket...
...second half the varsity was paralyzed. Penn worked the ball under-neath the basket for easy lay-ups while Crimson players looked on helplessly. The man they couldn't stop was sophomore star John Wideman, who pulled down 13 rebounds and finished with 21 points, high for the evening...
They were still in the game, that is, until a pass under the basket went astray, and Brown took the ball and the ball game. Borchard got the final two Crimson points after Gene Barth's two fouls had made the score...
Cool & Hot. By the time he hit the eighth grade, Oscar was a skinny-armed, precocious hotshot who already was completely confident of his skill. In the city championship he dribbled away the last moments of each quarter, then coolly sank a basket as the last second ticked...
Given this leeway, rival centers struggle for position in their own private wrestling matches under the basket. Boston's barrel-chested Jim Loscutoff is respected for his skill at disconcerting a jump shooter by jabbing him in the ribs with a massive forefinger. New Boy Robertson is already an expert at putting a hand on his man's hip and swinging himself around his rival. (Says Schayes: "Someone is going to grab that arm some day and throw Robertson into the third row.") St. Louis' hulking Clyde Lovellette daintily holds his man by the seam...