Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a race between Citation and a $1500 dollar plater at the Arena last night, as Holy Cross scintillating basketball team handed the varsity its fifth straight defeat, 64, to 48, before a near-capacity crowd of about 5,000. The Crusaders led at halftime...
...Crusaders are favored. They belong among the top five teams in the nation and their only losses so far this winter have been two-pointers to Kentucky and Tulane, and a six-point yielding to the number one team, Easy Ed Macauley and/or St. Louis. But generally, the Cross has to work up a good sweat to dispose of the Crimson...
Cousy is the chief magician in Holy Cross' crowd-pleasing give-and-go, behind-the-back pass system. And his soft, tantalizing push shot is the most dangerous single weapon in the Crusader arsenal. It helped the Cross win the NCAA title two years ago, and just missed upsetting Kentucky in the same tourney last winter...
Injuries will keep the two regular guards on the freshman basketball squad, Bill Borah and Alden Davis, out of the Holy Cross game in the Boston Arena at 4:30 p.m. today. Davis tore a cartilage in his knee at the Trinity game December 16 and aggravated the injury during the vacation. Borah twisted an ankle at practice yesterday and will be able to play only a small portion of the game at best, according to doctors...
...Holy Cross is one of the outstanding freshman aggregations in this area and since we're very thin right now because of injuries, they'll have the edge on us," Coach Lloyd Harper said last night. "Man for man they're no cleverer than we are but they have the advantage of manpower and size...