Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With opening day of the 1947-48 Crimson basketball campaign only five days off, coach Bill Barclay has pared his Varsity squad to 12 men and steadily increased the daily practice tempo in preparation for the MIT quintet next Wednesday on the Engineers' home court...
With six foot six inch Bill Prior and six foot three inch John Rockwell working out at the vital pivot slot. Barclay has moved Captain George Hauptfuhrer (six foot three inches) to forward. Hauptfuhrer, who broke the Crimson scoring record last year with 394 points, will return to his old center post only to jump when Rockwell is in the lineup...
Barclay has four veteran guards, Steve Davis, Bill Henry, Bill Brady, and Chip Gannon--all of practically equal ability. While it's a toss-up between the first three to see who starts against the Engineers, Barclay figures it will take time to round Gannon's football knees into shape...
Basketball mentor Bill Barclay could be thankful. His squad had more height, depth, speed, and experience than last year...
Although his players are hampered by the squash coach's traditional bugaboo of inexperience, Barnaby has a large part of his 1946 Varsity back, and feels he has cause for optimism, Captain Adam Foster returns to grace the number one spot, while right behind him are Bill Wightman and George Stevens, playing two and three respectively. Other veterans with a year's Varsity experience behind them are such dependables as Scotty Stewart, Lane McGovern, Milt Heath, and Jim McKittrick, while Foster's brothers Hugh and Henry have both joined him as sure starters. The former was number...