Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth players who helped upset the Crimson at Hanover last year set the pace again Saturday. Six foot five inch forward Fred Gieg scored 18 points for the Green. But the surprise standout in the game was Zack Boyages. Boyages also scored 18 points, but he included the winning basket in his total, a long set shot with about three minutes remaining in the game, which put the Indians ahead...
...second quarter was the turning point of the game, and close examination of what happened during it might reveal what happened to the Crimson. First, Dennis' jump shots stopped going in, and the entire team showed a lack of interest in working the ball in toward the basket. The Crimson would shoot and miss, and Princeton would take the rebound...
...same time, Princeton, led by six foot seven Foster Cooper, began to solve the Harvard zone defense. Quick, high passes over the heads of the Crimson defenders to Cooper under the basket netted a couple of easy baskets. Cooper and Dave Sister had the backboards all to themselves...
...second half was no better. Coach Norm Shepard used 11 players, but none of his combinations could stop the Tigers. Princeton scored easily off the zone by using a figrure-eight weave which steadily worked in closer to the basket until only an easy lay-up was needed to score...
...Crimson's first five. The Lions' first two reserves who will probably play a lot are also big--Stan Moratos at six feet, three inches and Howard Rosenfeld at six feet, five inches. Columbia Coach Lou Rossini employs an effective floating man-to-man defense to protect the basket, though he also uses a fast-breaking offense. Most of the New Yorkers' scoring will probably come from Reiss and Lehman, aided by Stein, who had an average of 9.7 points a game last year...