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...average of a little better than 13 points per game in the varsity basket ball team's ten remaining contests will enable forward John Rockwell to set a second all-time Harvard scoring record...
Within a few weeks he had things worked out surprisingly well. None of his squad was particularly fast--this meant Shepard's favorite fast-break brand of ball wouldn't work. But John Rockwell and Ed Smith were tail and good workers under the basket; be decided to concentrate his attack around the two lanky forwards. He built a double-pivot game around them, and it promptly paid off. Rockwell's work put him among the nation's top scorers by the middle of the fall...
That fifth man, and Rockwell's continued good play under the basket should shape the team's chances in the EIL race. Shepard has taught his men a fine man-to-man defense; their ball-handling was shown by a neatly executed fast freeze against Brown. But their offense has been spotty. During the next month they will come up against all sorts of high-scoring squads, including Yale's fast quintet. If Rockwell, Smith and their team-mates can perfect their attack, Shepard's resurrection of a basketball team may be complete...
Brown picked up the ball on a bad pass, hit with a foul, and had the ball under the varsity's basket when the automatic timer registered the end of the game. Coach Morris jumped from the Brown bench claiming a discrepancy between the timer and the Blockhouse clock, and referee Roberts ordered the ball jumped at mid-court. Gerry Murphy took the tap and dribbled until time ran out for the second time...
High scorer for the varsity was Ed Smith with 14 points; Brown's Mahoney also made 14. Both Smith and John Rockwell were crowded in their double pivot attack, with the Bruins concentrating defense men under the basket, and the tall forwards were helped out by Gerry Murphy's book shot, which produced nine points, and Cliff Crosby's work from outside. Crosby tied Rockwell with 11 points...