Word: dartmouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Automatic Walt McCurdy, who centered in on the target Tuesday night against Dartmouth, will start at guard tonight when Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team goes against Trinity in an 8:30 p.m. game at Hartford...
...Johnny Rockwell, he may have to sit on the bench, at least until Bill Prior cools off. "You can't keep a guy like Prior out of the game," Barclay explained yesterday. "He took 20 shots against Dartmouth and scored nine field goals...
...Dartmouth's slim, baby-faced basketball captain, Ed Leede, tossed in baskets faster than a five-and-ten-cent store salesman ringing up a cash register last night at the Garden to guide his undefeated team to a 72-68 overtime win over the varsity. The Big Green led at halftime...
Leede, who put in 12 field goals and 10 fouls, and varsity center Bill Prior, with a total of 23 points, took turns tilling the lead back and forth. Dartmouth had an eight-point bulge in the second period, Harvard a similar margin in the third. But Leede won out in the end. He sent the game into overtime at 59-59 with 50 seconds left on two lazy free throws, and then administered the coup de grace with two field goals and three more fouls...
Nevertheless, things are tough. The Bruins have already proved that they possess an exasperatingly good goalie in Don Whiston--he made 48 saves in last week's game--as well as one of the trickiest first lines this side of Dartmouth. Tony Malo and Johnny Casey have picked up considerably more than the fundamentals of the game back home in Canada, while their linemate Bobby Davidson is no slouch...