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...opening minutes of the second half. Harvard went ice-cold--not an unusual tactic this season. As the Crimson missed the basket for almost five minutes, Dartmouth captain Joe Colgan went on a spectacular scoring spree...
Apart from their rank in the royal household (just above St. James's Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged...
...Rabbit," a 6-5 New Yorker, came off an average scoring performance in Friday's game (12 points). Against St. Mary's he turned on all his moves toward the basket. With forward and high scorer Barth Royer sidelined by a twisted knee, Gallagher's apparent revitalization takes on added importance...
...start of this season, though, Chamberlain carried his selfless one-for-all tactics from the sublime to the ridiculous. He continued to set up plays and engulf the backboards. But presumably on the theory that the less he scored, the better Philadelphia fared, Wilt hardly went for the basket at all. In his first 16 games, he averaged only 15 points. Against the Warriors last month he scored exactly one point-on a foul shot-and did not so much as attempt a field goal in the entire game...
...corner and immediately fouled out trying to steal a pass, and Royer scored on a tap-in. Now ahead by only five, Northeastern got a free throw from its irrepressible gunner, Osgood. Then Norlander darted out, stole a pass, and went the length of the court for a basket...