Word: fast-breaking
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...Shepard is concerned, tonight's is the most important game on his schedule. This is what he told his squad yesterday as it completed eight weeks of practice under Shepard's fast-break style. At the close of yesterday's workout, the coach said, "My team will be fine as far as condition and morale go, and it will play to the best of its abilities...
Meanwhile, at the Blockhouse, Coach Norm Shepard will be working through 35 varsity basketball candidates, hoping to shape a squad that can play his brand of fast-break ball. Right now it's still "fundamentals" for the team, which opens its season in early December. The schedule will take the team westward at Christmas and bring to Boston such new rivals as Navy...
Shepard came home in 1929 and started coaching again, teaching fast-break ball to southern teams until he wound up at Davidson College in North Carolina. It was here that the long frantic arm of H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 fell on his shoulder. "I was proud to get a chance to coach at Harvard," says Shepard. "You may not realize it now but back when I was playing, Harvard had an athletic reputation, too I haven't forgotten that...
Shepard thinks his new team ought to do a little better than last year's three-up and 20-down wonders. He leans back, grins, and says "I might as well make the usual coach's comment. Things look encouraging." Shepard is going to teach his boys, the same fast-break type of ball he played himself; his schedule is a "reasonably tough...
Shepard has had a long career as player, coach, administrator, and business-man. He uses the fast-break and is noted for developing talent. Three of the first six men on the Davidson squad last season didn't make their high school teams...