Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berg put his men through a fast practice session yesterday in preparation for Nichols. Fluidity in their man to man defence, surely lacking against Brown last weekend, was worked on for most of the practice. Fast-breaking set-up plays under the basket, which were successful only once against Brown, were tested against this defence for the remainder of the afternoon...
Most of the Freshmen's field goals were made on set shots from deep court. Speedy guard Fred Wegner popped in four of his eleven points on fast breaking passes under the basket but was often ignored by his taller teammates...
Coach Berg's aggregation made little use of its height over the smaller opposition. Ed Smith tapped in a few of his 22 points, high score of the evening, from under the basket but more often than not the Bruins outwrestled the Yardling forwards...
...McCormick, 6 ft., 5 in., will be pivot man. McCormick, from Cleveland, was a hurler on the track team last spring and makes good use of his height and jump on the tip-off and under the basket. Cruising at the same altitude is forward Ed Smith, 6 ft., 5 in., who will be firing with either hand from the left. Smith's home field is in Columbus, Ohio...
Washington would attach. Liberal, scholarly Hu Shih took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs...