Word: chelseas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted by superstition, Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet came from behind to defeat the Chelsea Naval Hospital team, 63 to 38, Tuesday night for its thirteenth successive victory. By winning this last officially scheduled game, the hoopsters concluded the season with a record of nineteen victories and one defeat--by all odds the most successful year in Crimson basketball history...
With only nine days remaining before the first game in the N.C.A.A. tournament, the Varsity quintet will play its last scheduled contest of the season tonight at Chelsea against the Naval Hospital team. Though previously beaten twice by the Crimson, the Sailors are expected to provide stiff opposition as the Stahlmen try for their nineteenth victory in twenty games...
Last week's 77 to 54 victory over Chelsea was a poor indication of how closely the two teams are matched. Recently reinforced by Roy McCaslin, high-scoring teammate of Bob Myers on this season's Dartmouth quintet, the Sailors combine an aggressive offense with remarkable accuracy from all corners of the court...
Almost unnoticed in the last Chelsea game was the fact that, by notching 21 points, speedy Don Swegan boosted his three-year scoring record above the 500-mark, reaching a total of 501. A scorekeeper's error almost deprived him of this achievement, however, when he scored a basket just as Lou Decsi was being fouled...
...have been more evenly matched than were the Crimson and the Sailors as they battled to a 30 to 28 half-time lead for Harvard, a lead based on the slender margin of three extra foul shots. But a revised defense in the second half put the clamps on Chelsea scoring and enabled the Stahlmen to forge ahead to their twelfth straight victory...