Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt for precisely two minutes, right at the start. Johnny Rockwell, who led team scoring with 16 points, put the Crimson ahead 1 to 0 with the first of eight free throws, and Dick Covey followed up with a layup to make it 3 to 0. Then Holy Cross took over. Andy Laska hit from 20 feet out, Frank Oftring put in a charity toss, and Dermie O'Connell scored to pull his team into a 5 to 3 lead...
...everything a good basketball team should do. They moved easily through the Harvard defense, hit from both the outside and inside, controlled the boards, intercepted Crimson passes, and put on ball-handling exhibitions that had the crowd roaring. Bob Cousy and Andy Laska, a pair of juniors, topped the Cross scoring parade with 16 points apiece, most of them coming on long push shots...
Harvard won't meet any team like Holy Cross in the Ivy League race this winter. But they'll have to do better than two field goals in 20 minutes of play to beat the Cornells, the Princetons, and the Yales...
...Holy Cross has attracted a lot of good basketball material this year, and yesterday the Crimson freshmen found out just how good the '52 crop is. The Crusader freshmen plowed the Yardlings under, 68 to 34, at the Boston Arena yesterday afternoon...
Averaging 6 ft. 4 in. to Harvard's 5 ft. 10 in., Holy Cross outplayed the Crimson throughout the game by its ability to control both boards. With some of their top men on the injured list, the Yardlings played a listless game, and it showed in their defensive work...