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...pile up 395 points last season. His teammates, with some reason, call him Easy Ed. Once, when he was gauging the hoop on a crucial foul shot, an opponent tried to throw him off by yelling, "Hey, Ed, your shoe's untied." Without taking his eye from the basket, Macauley drawled: "You tie it for me, Junior, while I make this point." Then he dropped the ball neatly through the hoop to win the game...
...winning basketball team always looks unbeatable, as if it had some sympathetic understanding with the basket and couldn't miss. In pre-B.C. days this was especially true of the Yardlings. They were dead-eyes. Against Tech, Brown, and Nichols they looked relaxed and easy, didn't bother to hustle the ball in under the basket but plunked it from where they found it. In practice and against weak opposition they shone...
...hold their own in full-size, full-speed basketball the yearlings need a fast breaking offense. Berg worked on under-the-basket plays for the Boston College battle but tenseness on their first acquaintance with the Garden and a big audience slowed their shooting and passing. The glass backboards were seldom threatened by wild Crimson shooting. Breaks in the Eagle defense closed before the yardlings could capitalize on them...
...home. High-scoring hustlers Smith, McCormick, and Wegner will plunk from their usual positions of left forward, center, and right guard. Wegner has proved the smoothest and fastest man on the boards and though lack of height keeps his scoring from being consistent, his single-handed rushes under the basket are adrenalin to the Crimson's lumbering attack...
Paul Unruh, a six foot, four inch sophomore with a crew haircut and a hot hand, drew the applause of the 2600 spectators by his effortless ball handling and never-miss set shooting. He scored 21 points for the evening's high total. Unruh clicked off the first basket, and it was he who grabbed the ball off his own backboard at the final buzzer...