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Thus last week experts reckoned the best teams in the country as college basketball reached midseason. Because there is no national championship, the question of who plays the best basket-ball is one that perennially and profoundly agitates thousands of pool rooms and fraternity houses throughout the U. S. Each section of the country claims superiority, and the more pretentious teams usually spend Christmas vacation on a junket trying to prove it. This year basketball fans had an additional cause for controversy: the new centre-jump rule...
...goal centre jump, distinctive maneuver of the game. This year, under the new rule, the ball, instead of being brought to the centre and tossed up after each goal, is automatically given to the team just scored on-for a throw-in from out of bounds just under the basket. This speeds up the game, adds about seven minutes of playing time, reduces the advantages of tall fellows over short ones, results in more spectacular tries for baskets and larger scores...
...seems that this rule was adopted last year when a girl found a fire blazing in her waste basket. Guided by the motto "Save a minute and save a house" she tossed the burning contraption out the window. But it landed right in front of a passing professor, who computed that a good fire and a professor's life were more worth saving than a minute and a house, and thus began the rule...
Harvard's strong showing Saturday against the pre-season favored Indians indicates that Coach Wes Fesler's quintet will be very much in the running for the Ivy League championship. Against Dartmouth the Crimson showed their best form of the season, swiftly working the ball in under the enemy basket. Herrick and Lowman Shine on Defense...
Although shadowed by Lupien and Lutz in scoring, Lowman and Herrick along with Captain Vernon Struck were outstanding on the defense. The tall Crimson center was "pinched" under the Dartmouth basket, but proved invaluable in grabbing the ball off his own back-board, while Lowman held Bob McLoed, Indian threat, to five points...